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Decriminalization – a prerequisite to ending Aids and TB
The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis
SA’s hotspots for deadly air pollution
The Highveld, Vaal Triangle and Waterberg–Bojanala areas linked to higher rates of respiratory disease and TB
Harnessing AI for equitable access in education, healthcare
It must be noted that the role of AI is not to tell the farmer that their ancestral knowledge is wrong but a tool to enhance that knowledge with information they couldn’t…
Building toilets, fighting TB: Candice Andisiwe Sehoma’s life of activism
From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients
Trump’s HIV funding cuts will also hit diabetes, cervical cancer and depression hard
As government clinics take on HIV patients who were previously treated by Pepfar-funded projects, the treatment of conditions like diabetes and heart disease will come under…
The US’s NIH funds R6.65 billion of research in South Africa
If all of its National Institutes of Health funding falls away, the country could lose 70% of its medical research capacity
Solutions to TB and HIV benefit all of us, North and South
Diseases don’t respect national borders … governments all over the world need to work together to rein them in
The Global Fund will roll out the twice-yearly anti-HIV jab — with or without Pepfar
In December, the Global Fund and the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief committed to funding the roll-out of lenacapavir in countries they support
Trump’s cuts show the need to democratise reproductive health funding
Sources that are unrestricted, aligned with South African law and human rights, and without political interference, must be found as an alternative to the US
Why SA needs to get a grip on diabetes – fast
About 60 000 South Africans die in a year from diseases that are not caused by tuberculosis or HIV before they turn 70, and about a fifth of these are from diabetes
New responses to diseases – and each other
Antagonism and tension are inherent in our being but we can change the conversation
Rural KwaZulu-Natal is helping the world find a TB vaccine
Despite being a preventable and curable disease, about 150 people died from TB every day in South Africa in 2022
World Health Day: SA’s public health sector facing crisis amid budget cuts
About 83 out of every 100 people in our country depend on the public sector for their health care
Africans can solve TB, the disease that haunts us. Here’s how
Africans need to be fully involved in drug discovery and development research for tuberculosis on the continent
From start to finish: Five lessons for making mRNA jabs for TB
The need for a new tuberculosis vaccine is as urgent as ever, and now a local pharmaceutical company is joining the race to find one