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

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

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South Africa confronts alarming TB death rate despite declining infections

13 Dec 2023

Source: Dischem.

Healthcare

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

7 Dec 2023

Source: The South African National Aids Council.

Healthcare

Launch of initiative to end Aids in children by 2030

5 Dec 2023

Healthcare

Decline in SA's HIV prevalence, survey shows

29 Nov 2023

Source: Advin Healthcare.

Healthcare

TB vaccine: WHO expert explains why it's taken 100 years for a scientific breakthrough, and why it's such a big deal

Charles Shey Wiysonge 8 Nov 2023

Healthcare

#HIVToday: Urgent action needed for high incidence among MSM

Hans Croukamp 20 Jul 2023

Source: Supplied. Hans Croukamp, bioLytical Laboratories' chief operating officer.

Healthcare

#HIVToday: The company that's empowering South African youth with rapid HIV self testing

Katja Hamilton 21 Jun 2023

Ugandan human rights lawyer and activist leads fellow activists to file a petition challenging the signing of the new Anti-homosexuality law by President Yoweri Museveni, at the constitution court in Kampala, Uganda, 29 May 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

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Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

Reuters 30 May 2023

Healthcare

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

Katja Hamilton 26 May 2023

Healthcare

Roche teams with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to strengthen lab systems

6 Mar 2023

Healthcare

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

Jessica Haberer 28 Nov 2022

Marketing & Media

2022 Care Awards winners announced

16 Nov 2022

Source: REUTERS. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Healthcare

WHO ranked the most influential UN-recognised body on Twitter

17 Jun 2022

Healthcare

South Africa loses a great champion and a powerful voice in the fight against HIV/Aids

Katja Hamilton 30 Dec 2021

Healthcare

Covid-19 threatens gains made in HIV/Aids fight

Katja Hamilton 1 Dec 2021

Source: ©geckophotos

Healthcare

Nobel laureates call for waiving of IP Covid-19 rules

14 Sep 2021

Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Samora Chapman/ Africa Health Research Institute

Healthcare

Study shows a huge burden of undiagnosed disease in a rural South African district

Emily B Wong 28 Jun 2021

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

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Gilles van Cutsem 10 Jun 2021

Many countries around the world, like Bangladesh, have started Covid-19 vaccination. Kazi Salahuddin Razu/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Healthcare

South Africa didn't take advantage of its role in Covid-19 vaccine trials: why it should have

Keymanthri Moodley & Theresa Rossouw 10 Feb 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

Healthcare

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

Anthony Idowu Ajayi 13 Jan 2021

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

Healthcare

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

31 Dec 2020

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

Healthcare

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

Global Citizen Prize 2020 honours people shaping the 'World We Want'

ESG & Sustainability

Global Citizen Prize 2020 honours people shaping the 'World We Want'

Issued by OnPoint PR 17 Dec 2020

#WorldAidsDay: Covid-19 not the only health crisis we have on our hands

ESG & Sustainability

#WorldAidsDay: Covid-19 not the only health crisis we have on our hands

1 Dec 2020

Sonali Pal Chaudhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Healthcare

Battles won - and lost - against Aids hold valuable lessons for managing Covid-19

Linda-Gail Bekker 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

Healthcare

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

Kathryn L Hopkins & Glenda Gray 30 Nov 2020

Millions of individuals benefit from major public health contribution in face of rising cases of Covid-19

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Millions of individuals benefit from major public health contribution in face of rising cases of Covid-19

Issued by Jik 19 Nov 2020

Early diagnosis and treatment are key in the fight against HIV. Peter Casaer

Healthcare

Millions of people are on treatment for HIV: why are so many still dying?

Gilles van Cutsem 19 Nov 2020

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

Healthcare

Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention

Ina Skosana 17 Nov 2020

Dr Priya Agrawal, managing director, MSD, South Africa & sub-Saharan Africa

Healthcare

MSD signs voluntary licensing agreements for HIV drug

5 Oct 2020

Covid-19 has not been as devastating in South Africa as initially feared. Dino Lloyd/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19 and HIV: so far it seems the outcome is not what was feared

Burtram C. Fielding 21 Sep 2020

A laboratory technician processes samples for testing Covid-19 at the Rwanda Biomedical Center in Kigali. Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP via Getty

Healthcare

How pooled testing can increase access to essential laboratory tests in Africa

Wolfgang Preiser & Gert van Zyl 4 Sep 2020

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

Healthcare

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.

Healthcare

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

Nesri Padayatchi & Kogie Naidoo 21 Jul 2020

A victim of the Aids pandemic is buried in Cape Town in 2004. Kim Ludbrook/EPA.

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Coronavirus media coverage must avoid the mistakes of the Aids pandemic in Africa

Ludek Stavinoha 13 Jul 2020

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Covid-19 in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19 vaccine: the challenges of running a trial in the middle of a pandemic

Jeffrey Mphahlele 7 Jul 2020

Winnie Byanyima, executive director, UNAIDS. Source: UNAIDS

Healthcare

Covid-19 and HIV: When two viruses collide

Nicci Botha 7 May 2020

Children at window of a building in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Children will be vulnerable if vaccinations are postponed. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Coronavirus risks forcing South Africa to make health trade-offs it can ill afford

Karen Hofman & Susan Goldstein 17 Apr 2020

Doctors Without Borders supporters march in protest to the American Consulate in Johannesburg in 2012 over lack of funding to fight HIV. Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Healthcare

TB, HIV and Covid-19: urgent questions as three epidemics collide

Emily Wong 26 Mar 2020

Healthcare

How nutrition education can make a difference to people with HIV in Nigeria

Temitope Kayode Bello 21 Feb 2020

New HIV infections remain high. Shutterstock

Healthcare

The search for an effective HIV vaccine continues

14 Feb 2020

It’s important for scientists to have the most thorough understanding of HIV. Shutterstock

Healthcare

What the discovery of a new HIV strain means for the pandemic

Linda-Gail Bekker 7 Feb 2020

Healthcare

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

Gwinyai Masukume & Witness Mapanga 29 Jan 2020

Preventing TB: a big drug price cut paves the way for global scale-up

Healthcare

Preventing TB: a big drug price cut paves the way for global scale-up

Gavin Churchyard 14 Jan 2020

Healthcare

New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected

Amy Slogrove & Kathleen M Powis 13 Jan 2020