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Decriminalization – a prerequisite to ending Aids and TB
The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis
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
‘Positive Masculinity’ changing the game in Africa
The majority of those displaced in emergencies are women and girls, increasing their risk of sexual violence. Girls are forced into child marriage or transactional sex, both last…
China steps in to fund SA’s HIV fight
Chinese government says this isn’t an attempt to capture the South African government but an initiative meant to help South Africans
Ramaphosa links debt reform to global inequality fight
In his weekly newsletter, the president said the G20 must urgently address the fiscal conditions that have left low- and middle-income countries unable to build resilience or…
G20 health ministers take on dangerous inequalities
G20 Health Ministers and international organisations meeting in Polokwane, South Africa, are focusing their attention on an urgent shared threat to public health: inequalities.…
The Global Council on Inequality, AIDS and Pandemics in partnership with UNAIDS and the Mail & Guardian to host a livestream with leaders on a new report on the impact of Inequality on Pandemics
The Mail & Guardian will host the launch of a new report that will show how inequality gaps within and between countries impact pandemics and vulnerability to a new pandemic. The…
People living with HIV in fear as impact of donor funding cuts begin to show in eSwatini
HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach…
SA gets R520 million to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab – but there’s a snag
The country isn’t getting extra money from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria; it has to use cash from a grant it has already been awarded and was cut by 16% in June
The endgame to HIV/Aids
The United States’ shutdown of HIV/Aids funding may harm global Aids programmes irreparably, jeopardising millions of lives and putting HIV prevention at risk
Not easy to track how well South Africa is doing with getting people on to ARVs
The world has 18 months left to reach targets that all United Nations member countries signed up to in 2021
Low-income countries such as Madagascar lack funds to fight Aids
The pandemic is still claiming lives in the Indian Ocean country due to lack of HIV prevention and treatment services
Protect everyone’s rights to protect everyone’s health against Aids
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 responses succeed when we let communities lead
The Nomakhayas of Nqileni in the Eastern Cape give us a case study to replicate This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail &…
How the Constitution changed the HIV/Aids epidemic’s trajectory in SA
Treatment Action Campaign and other civil society groups forced a reluctant Mbeki government to change its stance and roll out ARVs