The memory of the Covid-19 shock shapes how governments and publics react to any new outbreak with even a hint of international spread
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…
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…
The continent can fund its own research, set its own agendas and lead globally through locally rooted solutions, shifting from dependency to leadership
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…
The least the Trump administration could have done was provide ample warning that it was going to cut aid
These included 9 859 cases relating to sexual abuse reported in all nine provinces
An inter-referral system between conventional and complementary medical practitioners is essential to giving patients optimal care in our diverse society
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…
Aid dependency in the fight against HIV/Aids is not sustainable; Africa must own its health future. With political will, nothing is impossible
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
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…
The US withdrawal will reveal the underlying truth: African health systems have long been undermined by debt and political neglect.
A modelling study released in March gives a clue at which price the jab, lenacapavir, would be worth the health department’s while
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
South Africa has laid a solid foundation as G20 chair, undeterred by the US’s disruptions
When nations develop and implement self-sustaining policies, they build resilience against external shocks and gain the capacity to determine their own futures
The George Soros-founded private funder says it does not have the capacity to fill the void left by USAid cuts
Cancellation letters, which end millions of rands of South African universities’ US-government funded HIV and TB research grants with immediate effect, started to roll in over…
There is an urgent need to build health sovereignty and sustainability to break dependence on donations
