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HIV/AIDS

Revolutionary anti-HIV injection may redefine SA’s public health response

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HIV/AIDS

Funding crisis threatens progress in fight against HIV/Aids

11 Jul 2025

Source: Wikimedia/Lschefa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lesotho’s capital.

HIV/AIDS

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 Jun 2025

HIV/AIDS

US funding cuts could cause over 150,000 extra HIV infections in SA by 2028

Jesse Copelyn 23 Apr 2025

In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

CSI & Philanthropy

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

Liezl Human 23 Jan 2025

HIV/AIDS

Vaccines can put an end to HIV – African governments must take the lead in developing them

Glenda Gray and Asa Tapley 2 Jan 2025

HIV/AIDS

HIV drug trial shows injection twice-yearly 100% effective against infection

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

Source: Reuters.

HIV/AIDS

HIV vaccine trial in Africa halted after disappointing data

8 Dec 2023

Source: Dischem.

HIV/AIDS

Dis-Chem teams with Ezintsha to enhance access to HIV prevention

7 Dec 2023

Source: Supplied. Seithati Molefi, deputy chief-of-party at Right to Care.

Women's Health

Let's talk about sex that is safe and satisfying

Seithati Molefi 16 Aug 2023

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: Licensing of anti-HIV jab ignites hope for millions in Africa

Katja Hamilton 26 May 2023

How can living a normal life be sustained for people living with HIV/AIDS?

HIV/AIDS

How can living a normal life be sustained for people living with HIV/AIDS?

Issued by Stone 29 Mar 2023

HIV/AIDS

HIV prevention: new injection could boost the fight, but some hurdles remain

Jessica Haberer 28 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied. Linda-Gail Bekker, professor of medicine and chief executive officer at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation.

HIV/AIDS

Decades of research make PrEP against HIV a reality for South Africa

25 Oct 2022

Emergency Medicine

African solutions to African problems: Reframing science innovation

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD 9 Jun 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

Smart lockers expand countrywide as patients demand quick medicine collection

5 Apr 2022

Public Health

Eastern Cape dog-rabies outbreak is "disastrous"

9 Dec 2021

HIV/AIDS

Cipla launches Live2Love mobile game to destigmatise HIV

1 Dec 2021

Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now

HIV/AIDS

Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now

Kaymarlin Govender & Linda-Gail Bekker 14 Jun 2021

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

HIV/AIDS

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

Gilles van Cutsem 10 Jun 2021

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

HIV/AIDS

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

31 Dec 2020

#WorldAIDSDay: Phase 3 trial investigates one-dose PrEP for women and adolescent girls

HIV/AIDS

#WorldAIDSDay: Phase 3 trial investigates one-dose PrEP for women and adolescent girls

1 Dec 2020

Long-acting cabotegravir injections once every eight weeks was better than the daily tablet used for HIV prevention. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention

Ina Skosana 17 Nov 2020

Aids activists lie down in protest in front of parliament in 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa.

HIV/AIDS

Aids conference: Covid-19, big breakthroughs and missed targets

Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Jul 2020

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

HIV/AIDS

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

2 Dec 2019

Women walk past a mural painted to raise awareness on HIV and AIDS in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. EPA/Dai Kurokawa

HIV/AIDS

HIV in Kenya: high risk groups aren't getting the attention they need

Makobu Kimani 19 Jul 2019

New HIV infections continue to drive the epidemic. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Why ending HIV still rests on a working cure - as well as prevention

Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Mar 2019

STIs are a serious health threat. Shutterstock

Public Health

Preventing sexually transmitted infections: why South Africa isn't winning

Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha 15 Feb 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

Public Health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

PrEP pills. Bowonpat Sakaew/Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Stop blaming PrEP for the rise in STIs - the picture is more complex than that

Oli Stevens & Charles Witzel 11 Dec 2018

Pioneering HIV+ transplant opens up a pool of new donors

HIV/AIDS

Pioneering HIV+ transplant opens up a pool of new donors

5 Oct 2018

MTV Shuga launches three new campaigns

TV

MTV Shuga launches three new campaigns

1 Aug 2018

Response to HIV needs to change

HIV/AIDS

Response to HIV needs to change

23 Jul 2018

Professor Ian Sanne, head and principal investigator at the Clinical HIV Research Unit (CHRU)

HIV/AIDS

SA leads the way in Aids research and treatment

22 May 2018

Antiretroviral treatment prevents the virus from multiplying and prolongs the lives of HIV positive people. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

HIV/AIDS

Kenya's HIV progress report: good progress, but also big gaps

Griffins Manguro 3 Jan 2018

Photo: Toledo Blade

HIV/AIDS

Queering the healthcare space

20 Nov 2017

Healthcare

Viruses, vaccines and superbugs: The biggest stories of 2016

LAURA LOPEZ GONZALEZ 30 Dec 2016

Could we mass-produce HIV immunity?

HIV/AIDS

Could we mass-produce HIV immunity?

Penny Moore, Lynne Morris & Nono Mkhize 28 Nov 2016

Vaginal ring to prevent HIV on the cards

HIV/AIDS

Vaginal ring to prevent HIV on the cards

16 Mar 2016

HIV/AIDS

How a drug can help prevent 5000 girls being infected with HIV every week

Sinead Delany-Moretlwe and Deborah Baron 21 Dec 2015

Major progress in technology to fight HIV

Health & Social Welfare

Major progress in technology to fight HIV

1 Dec 2015

CSIR researches plant-based HIV vaccine

HIV/AIDS

CSIR researches plant-based HIV vaccine

30 Nov 2015

HIV/AIDS

New HIV/Aids report released by Rand Europe, AIDS Foundation of Chicago

21 Jun 2013

An effective, economic approach to South Africa's HIV epidemic

HIV/AIDS

An effective, economic approach to South Africa's HIV epidemic

Michael Greenwood 15 Apr 2013

Learning pillbox assists compliance

Healthcare

Learning pillbox assists compliance

18 Jan 2013

From discovery to delivery at 2012 International Microbicides Conference

Exhibitions & Events

From discovery to delivery at 2012 International Microbicides Conference

12 Mar 2012

Trial and major study find PrEP can reduce risk of HIV infection among heterosexuals

HIV/AIDS

Trial and major study find PrEP can reduce risk of HIV infection among heterosexuals

14 Jul 2011

Antiretrovirals: A significant role in preventing HIV infections in HIV-negative South Africans?

HIV/AIDS

Antiretrovirals: A significant role in preventing HIV infections in HIV-negative South Africans?

1 Dec 2010