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The refusal to allow the cruise ship to dock in Cape Verde is an expression of the post-Covid-19 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from which the world suffers. Photo: Cruisemapper
ANDES VIRUS

A cruise ship, hantavirus and global PTSD

The memory of the Covid-19 shock shapes how governments and publics react to any new outbreak with even a hint of international spread

  • Anthony Ohemeng-Boamah
5 min read
Fast moving: The Faizan Global Relief Foundation (FGRF) launched a food distribution campaign targeting 100 000 vulnerable households across Malawi in February. Photo: Radio Islam Malawi/Facebook
BANGLADESH

Malawi’s aid vacuum draws new actors

As Western donors pull back and food insecurity deepens in the landlocked south-eastern African nation, the rise of a UK-registered Islamic charity is exposing both the necessity…

  • Collins Mtika
8 min read
Strategic: US President Donald Trump’s infamous gaffe “Where did you learn your English?” to his Liberian counterpart Joseph Boakai was no diplomatic misstep. Photo: Daniel Torok
AFRICA

Unmasking Washington’s strategic disengagement

Trump’s inflammatory remarks about “white genocide” during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state visit were not merely offensive; they invoked white nationalist tropes aimed at…

  • Wellington Muzengeza
8 min read
AFRICAN RESEARCH

Africa must reclaim its research agenda before the world moves on without us

The continent can fund its own research, set its own agendas and lead globally through locally rooted solutions, shifting from dependency to leadership

  • Edwin Naidu
6 min read
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.
AFRICA

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…

  • UNAIDS
7 min read
Sign outside the offices of an organisation in Mozambique that was defunded by USAid. Photos: Jesse Copelyn
AFRICA

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

  • Jesse Copelyn
10 min read
More than 26 000 cases of child abuse and neglect were reported in the 2024-25 financial year
JUSTICEFORCWECWE

Reported cases of child abuse and neglect rose to 26 000 in 2024-25

These included 9 859 cases relating to sexual abuse reported in all nine provinces

  • Umamah Bakharia
6 min read
ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICA

Conventional and complementary healthcare professionals need to work together

An inter-referral system between conventional and complementary medical practitioners is essential to giving patients optimal care in our diverse society

  • Tebogo Tsele-Tebakang
5 min read
The impact of the Trump administration’s slashing of over half of South Africa’s HIV and TB projects funded by the US government, transcends reduced access to HIV testing and HIV prevention and treatment drugs. Treatment for diabetes, high blood pressure, cervical cancer, depression and anxiety will become harder to come by too. (Flickr)
ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY

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…

  • Zano Kunene
10 min read
Foreign aid has been the backbone of Africa’s HIV/Aids response but now the continent must take control of its health future.
AFRICA

A letter to the African Union and the continent’s governments

Aid dependency in the fight against HIV/Aids is not sustainable; Africa must own its health future. With political will, nothing is impossible

  • Tuwilika Elias
4 min read
AARON MOTSOALEDI
Video

The case of the minister and the HIV activists: Are we entering denialism 2.0?

Activists say the health minister is in denial over the impact of US funding cuts and accusing them and the media of overblowing the crisis and spreading disinformation

  • Mia Malan
15 min read
Twenty years of hard lessons — with a dose of good luck and a lot of persistence — has helped Hlokomela Clinic to prepare for the US funding cuts crisis. (Zano Kunene)
ANOVA HEALTH INSTITUTE

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…

  • Zano Kunene
9 min read
African health systems have long been undermined by debt and political neglect.
ABUJA DECLARATION

The cost of neglect: Debt’s toll on African health systems

The US withdrawal will reveal the underlying truth: African health systems have long been undermined by debt and political neglect.

  • Tian Johnson
6 min read
Lenacapavir could end Aids in South Africa by 2032. How much should we pay for it? (Canva)
AIDS TREATMENT

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

  • Mia Malan
12 min read
The theme for World Health Day is ‘healthy beginnings, hopeful futures’ and aims to encourage governments to take actions to reduce mothers’ deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
CHILD MORTALITY

World health: Progress after Covid — then Trump struck

On World Health Day, let’s not lose sight of hope, of taking action to make sure we create societies in which our children can not only survive but thrive

  • Mark Tomlinson
6 min read