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UNAids executive director Winnie Byanyima. Image: UNAids on X

Decriminalization – a prerequisite to ending Aids and TB

The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis

After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities are settling in. We spoke to Mitchell Warren from the New York HIV advocacy organisation, Avac, to find out what that means for South Africa. Photo: Paul Botes

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

An SOS to men: Women and children bear the brunt of sexual violence in the refugee camps on the continent.
It is only positive masculinity that can rescue them from this scourge, the writers argue. Photo UNHCR

‘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…

Health minister Aaron
Motsoaledi, Chinese
ambassador Wu Peng
and other officials in
Pretoria this week to
launch the $3.49 million
fund. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: by PresidencyZA)

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.…

Global Council Co-Chairs Joseph Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot.

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…

Nompilo Mdluli — in brown jacket — and Simphiwe Matsebula — in black jersey are worried that the Pepfar pause on HIV services in eSwatini could negatively affect the lives of people living with HIV especially daily access to antiretroviral treatment which helps keep their virus under control.

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…

Research indicates the anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, protects women completely and works almost as well for men, transgender and nonbinary people. Photo: Marko Milivojevic/Pixnio

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 Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/Aids says the crisis is not an isolated supply-chain issue but a ‘systemic failure’ that demands urgent government intervention

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

Another study confirms that HIV-positive people on treatment and with very low levels of the virus in their blood can’t transmit HIV. (Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters)

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

Dire situation: A busy street in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo. The country has seen a sharp rise in Aids cases and deaths. ©UNAIDS 2024.

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

In South Africa, lack of adherence to HIV treatment remains a problem.

HIV responses succeed when we let communities lead

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The government’s Aids policies sparked protests like the one pictured in 2001 in Cape Town. (Per-Anders Pettersson / Getty Images)

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

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

UN: Inequalities prolong Aids pandemic

On current trends, the world will not meet agreed global targets on Aids, the new UNAids report, Dangerous Inequalities, shows. Urgent action to disrupt the power imbalance of…

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Why is the Aids conference still held in the Global North?

Researchers find that 96% of health conferences are in rich countries and only four in 10 attendees are from poorer nations with the highest burden of disease

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Letter to UNAids: End Aids deaths by 2030

Setting new 90-90-90 targets for CD4 testing, cryptococcal antigen, and TB testing, and treatment, aligned to the WHO AHD package of care would be a positive step towards ending…

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that vaccine development and testing timelines can be shrunk from decades to months,  but not without shortcomings. (Angel Garcia/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Finding an HIV vaccine: Five lessons from the search for a Covid-19 jab

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that vaccine development and testing timelines can be shrunk from decades to months, but not without shortcomings

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Condom crisis hits safe sex during Covid-19

Pandemic disrupts the supply of external condoms — and inner ones are unknown and in short supply