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More HIV funding cuts are coming for SA. This time it’s a slow fade, but with clear risks
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria will start to cut its grant support to South Africa in just two years, with its final grant ending in eight years. Some…
Our anti-HIV jab will be rolled out in six weeks. But funding cuts hollowed out the system needed to deliver it
The uptake of the once-every-six-month HIV prevention jab lenacapavir (LEN) in South Africa will be heavily affected by the Trump administration’s funding cuts to the country, a…
What will HIV funding look like in 2026?
After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities are settling in
Very bad things happening in the US
The emphasis on might and control risks further weakening America’s position as a dependable global partner in diplomatic settings
US ratchets up diplomatic war against South Africa
The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott
Trump’s tariffs are illegal under international trade law
Other countries have taken the US to the World Trade Organisation, but South Africa has chosen to try to negotiate a better deal with America
Small win for activists, but SA’s HIV projects won’t reopen
The $400 million the United States congress removed from a list of funding programmes the Trump administration wants to cut doesn’t cancel the cuts to HIV and TB programmes made…
Mozambican children die after US funding cuts: Who bears responsibility?
The least the Trump administration could have done was provide ample warning that it was going to cut aid
The future world order must be based on tolerance and diversity
Using a cultural synthesis of the best aspects of various cultures and traditions we can build a harmonious and sustainable future
How this Limpopo NGO prepared for Trump’s funding cuts
The Anova Health Institute, which received the lion’s share of the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids funding in South Africa, had its support halted in February along with…
Tariff exemptions signal growing instability in Trump trade doctrine
The quick about-turns expose the internal contradictions – and lack of comprehensive planning – in US trade policy and its broader global economic implications.
The six-monthly anti-HIV jab could end Aids in SA by 2032
A modelling study released in March gives a clue at which price the jab, lenacapavir, would be worth the health department’s while
Geopolitical shifts are affecting higher education on the continent
Universities in Africa need to secure funding for students and build new research collaborations while not excluding our US partners
Trump administration might put AU and South Africa’s G20 membership into play
Political analysts should pay more attention to the G20 Johannesburg Summit given Donald Trump’s bid to restore meritocracy and dilute diversity
How the health department will deal with Pepfar’s near collapse
Until recently, the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief funded nonprofits in South Africa to help provincial health departments test people for HIV and put them on…