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Bhekisisa’s latest policy dialogue takes a deep dive into one of the biggest challenges facing SA’s HIV response at the 9th Aids conference.

Small town, big goals: Eshowe has become one of the first SA communities to put enough people on HIV treatment to reduce new infections in the area.

Today, SA boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, but 3.2-million people who need ARVs still aren’t on them. Here’s how to fix that.

The rresident promised more funding to the country’s one-stop centres for victims of abuse. But can provinces afford to make good on his promise?

These ATMs can decrease the number of patients in clinics but health workers are not helping to achieve that goal.

One in three sex workers in South Africa say they’ve been raped by a police officer. Could a change in the law solve this?

Since the country’s national rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking PrEP are young women — despite high HIV rates among them.

For years, catching this drug-resistant bacteria meant painful treatment that risked your hearing and mental health. Now, that could be changing.

The health department is bracing itself for a perfect storm when climate change and our over-stretched health system collide. But is it doing enough?

Recent national and Gauteng memos demanding all foreign patients pay in full for services likely fell foul of the law.

If you think shutting down needle exchange programmes will keep your city free of contaminated needles, think again.

This province reported skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy but behind the figures lies a story about sex, knowledge and data.

Joan Collins* worked as an intensive care nurse in Cape Town. But that’s not the only way she made a living.

In this province, the agricultural and mining sectors draw thousands of workers each year – and then they disappear. Here’s why we need to find them.

How do you fix South Africa’s sexual and reproductive health wrongs? Help people access their rights.