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Source: Global NCD Alliance Forum.

Healthcare

A breath of fresh air: How Kigali’s car-free Sundays keep people moving

Zano Kunene 28 Feb 2025

Why sports is the key to unlocking healthy futures

Sport

Why sports is the key to unlocking healthy futures

Issued by Irvine Partners 26 Feb 2025

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Healthcare

Africa relies too heavily on foreign aid for health – 4 ways to fix this

Francisca Mutapi 25 Feb 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

An educator uses a model of the HIV virus to illustrate a lesson on Aids to youths at a primary health centre in Kobi suburb, Abuja, Nigeria 30 November 2022. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo

HIV/AIDS

New HIV prevention drug could reach poorest countries by 2025, says health official

Jennifer Rigby 18 Dec 2024

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Healthcare

HIV: there’s hope for a cure – where we stand now

3 Dec 2024

Medtech

Empowering youth: New B-Wise app takes health services to your fingertips

29 Nov 2024

HIV/AIDS

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

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

HIV/AIDS

HIV among older South Africans in rural areas: big study shows there’s a problem that’s being neglected

Jen Manne-Goehler and Francesc Xavier Gomez-Olive Casas 5 Mar 2024

#BestofBiz 2023: Healthcare

Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2023: Healthcare

19 Dec 2023

Source: Dischem.

HIV/AIDS

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

7 Dec 2023

Source: UNAids.

HIV/AIDS

Kiara Health takes vital first step to making woman-controlled HIV prevention a reality

1 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

HIV/AIDS

"Change the name. End the stigma": Why it's time to rename HIV

10 May 2023

HIV/AIDS

R40m NIH grant keeps HIV prevention as top priority in 2023

10 Mar 2023

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HIV/AIDS

Injectable HIV treatment offers hope to Ugandan patients

22 Dec 2022

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

HIV/AIDS

Cipla launches Live2Love mobile game to destigmatise HIV

1 Dec 2021

Source: ©The Global Fund. A march through Agogo town in Ghana to educate citizens on malaria

HIV/AIDS

Covid-19's adverse impact on HIV, TB and malaria programmes

8 Sep 2021

Charlize Theron talking during the PSG Think Big Series

Film & Cinematography

Charlize Theron says apathy is the greatest enemy of positive change

18 Aug 2021

Alcohol industry bemoans lack of engagement as booze ban extended

Regulatory

Alcohol industry bemoans lack of engagement as booze ban extended

12 Jul 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

Create Mozambique celebrates 25 years of firsts

Advertising

Create Mozambique celebrates 25 years of firsts

Issued by Dentsu 17 May 2021

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

Medical Research

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

30 Apr 2021

Professor Salim Abdool Karim

Covid-19

Abdool Karim steps down

26 Mar 2021

Women who had a secondary or higher level of education were more likely to test for HIV than women who had no formal education. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

African countries differ widely in prenatal HIV testing: why it matters

Anthony Idowu Ajayi 13 Jan 2021

Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus

HIV/AIDS

Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus

Kaymarlin Govender, Janet Seeley, Mitzy Gafos, Roselyn Kanyemba 24 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

People relying on HIV prevention, care and treatment services have become even more vulnerable because of COVID-19. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

HIV/AIDS

Why it's important to keep diagnosing and treating HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic

Kathryn L Hopkins & Glenda Gray 30 Nov 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

UKZN’s Emeritus Professor Anna Coutsoudis

HIV/AIDS

SA study recommends changes to PMTCT guidelines

10 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

A healthcare worker in a protective suit is seen at a quarantine and isolation centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Covid-19

How Covid-19 threatens efforts to contain HIV/Aids in South Africa

Nesri Padayatchi & Kogie Naidoo 21 Jul 2020

#UnsungHeroes: Gloria Nkosi of Hope Worldwide SA

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

#UnsungHeroes: Gloria Nkosi of Hope Worldwide SA

Ilse van den Berg 22 Apr 2020

New HIV infections remain high. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

The search for an effective HIV vaccine continues

14 Feb 2020

HIV/AIDS

Messages about male circumcision aren't clear: why this is dangerous

Gwinyai Masukume & Witness Mapanga 29 Jan 2020

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

HIV/AIDS

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

2 Dec 2019

Comprehensive Sexuality Education lesson plans placed online

Primary & Secondary Education

Comprehensive Sexuality Education lesson plans placed online

14 Nov 2019

Syringe and cooked heroin. TM_SALE/Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

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Public Health

Lessons from Rwanda on how trust can help repair a broken health system

Agnes Binagwaho 2 Oct 2019

Professor Glenda Gray, president of the South African Medical Research Council. Photo: South African Medical Research Council

HIV/AIDS

Hope for HIV vaccine being tested in South Africa

Elsabé Brits 23 Sep 2019

Image: World Health Organisation

HIV/AIDS

Malawi races towards global HIV targets

WATIPASO MZUNGU 14 Aug 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

Young girls play netball in an open field near King Williams Town. EPA/Kim Ludbrook

HIV/AIDS

Can free schools in South Africa reduce HIV risk?

Franziska Meinck 17 Jul 2019

2019 Durban Pride set to celebrate legal equality for LGBTQ+ community

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

2019 Durban Pride set to celebrate legal equality for LGBTQ+ community

26 Jun 2019