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What’s the best way to spend the HIV prevention budget so that the country can drive infections down as fast as possible? We take a look at what modelling data shows. (Pexels, kaboompics)
ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS

180 000 infections in 2024, 47 000 by 2045 — if SA rolls out the twice-a-year HIV prevention jab fast enough

The HIV prevention shot, lenacapavir, will be rolled out at South African clinics within the next couple of months and from 2027, the health department will also buy generics.…

  • Linda Pretorius
9 min read
To end Aids by 2043, the South African government says it could get a group of local pharmaceutical companies to make generic shots of lenacapavir from 2027 onwards. There is, however, a hitch. None of the companies that will be involved have a licence to make the jab. (Julia Koblitz/ Unsplash)
AARON MOTSOALEDI

SA wants to make its own six-monthly HIV prevention jabs by 2027. But there’s a hitch

None of the companies that will be involved have a licence from the inventor of Lenacapavir, Gilead Sciences, to make the jab

  • Mia Malan
9 min read
The Health and Human Rights Oral History Project’s video testimonies that capture three decades of health activism from around the world, might provide a blueprint for the next wave of HIV activism. (Bhekisisa)
AIDS DENIALISM
Video

Fighting for funds: A new era of HIV activism

Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang…

  • Ida Jooste
9 min read
Aside from the economic benefits, urgent decriminalisation is needed to ensure constitutional rights of the country’s estimated 153 000 sex workers. (John McCann/M&G)
PROSTITUTION

Ten reasons why South Africa must decriminalise sex work

Aside from the economic benefits, urgent decriminalisation is needed to ensure constitutional rights of the country’s estimated 153 000 sex workers

  • Karabo Mokgonyana
8 min read
African states should prepare their own context-sensitive approaches to public health crises because they bear the major health burdens. (Photo by Dino Lloyd/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
90 90 90 TARGETS

South Africa Aids gains in danger as it grapples with Covid-19

Sex education will help prevent new HIV infections, expert says

  • Marcia Zali
3 min read
Widespread tuberculosis awareness campaigns can rein in its increasing transmission rates.
DAVID MABUZA

Most people with TB don’t seek treatment, HSRC survey finds

More men than women have tuberculosis and 82% are in the 15 to 24 age group

  • Marcia Zali
3 min read
Zero discrimination is essential to if we are to change the fact that 7.8 million South Africans live with HIV, but 5.8 million people are on ARVs, highlighting a treatment gap
HIV

South African Aids council stands by national sex worker plan

Human rights and access to healthcare remain paramount in the country’s response.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
A new health and education programme helps sex workers to get access to health services such as HIV counselling and testing
BHEKISISA TEAM

Health project helps sex workers – but rogue cops a problem

The Aids council’s programme is a "big step in the right direction", but abuse by police still needs to be tackled, says an HIV specialist.

  • Amy Green
  • Bhekisisa Team
2 min read
ANTIRETROVIRALS

Sanac hopes for three-million on ARVs by 2015

The South African National Aids Council says it aims to have three million people receiving antiretroviral therapy by 2015.

  • Sapa
1 min read
Aids council labour dispute sparks concern
AIDS

Aids council labour dispute sparks concern

A labour dispute is boiling at the South African National Aids Council, raising concerns over their ability to implement the national strategic plan.

  • Faranaaz Parker
3 min read
Polygamy: It ain’t what it used to be
AIDS

Zuma’s new Aids plan to include TB

President Jacob Zuma has presented a five-year plan to reduce new HIV and TB infections by 50%.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
Let someone else save the planet
COMMISSION ON GENDER EQUALITY

Let someone else save the planet

The South African National Aids Council’s strategic plan is far too broad to be effective.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
HIVAIDS

World Cup may bring jump in HIV infection rates

HIV/Aids infection rates may increase during the Soccer World Cup, the South African National Aids Council said on Friday.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Govt to probe HIV funding

The government is looking into whether it would run out of funding for HIV/Aids drugs in this financial year, the health minister said on Friday.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Do we want a lame-duck govt?

When was the last time you heard from Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa, Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff, Northern Cape’s Dipuo Peters or even KwaZulu-Natal’s S’bu Ndebele? I…

  • Rapule Tabane
4 min read