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Public Health

The global health system can build back better after US aid cuts – here’s how

Jonathan E. Cohen 8 Aug 2025

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Food, Water & Energy Security

NWU finds ARVs in SA water sources, sparking govt probe

17 Jul 2025

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HIV/AIDS

Funding crisis threatens progress in fight against HIV/Aids

11 Jul 2025

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Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

#ActForSRHR digital campaign launches

11 Jul 2025

Source: Botswana Government/Instagram. His Excellency Ndaba Gaolathe, Vice-President of Botswana.

Banking

Africa’s strategic shift: from donor dependence to entrepreneurial powerhouse

Katja Hamilton 10 Jul 2025

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HIV/AIDS

SA Health to fund HIV/Aids research to fill Pepfar void

10 Jul 2025

The CEO of T-Connect Lesotho, Phelane Phomane, at the launch of Starlink. Image: Sechaba Mokhethi / GroundUp

Internet

Starlink launches amid job losses in Lesotho

Sechaba Mokhethi 25 Jun 2025

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Malaria

Codix Bio to produce HIV, malaria test kits amid USAid cutbacks

Ben Ezeamalu 20 Jun 2025

Breaking the HIV bottleneck: Why sub-Saharan Africa must lead the way

HIV/AIDS

Breaking the HIV bottleneck: Why sub-Saharan Africa must lead the way

Bertie Jacobs, Issued by North-West University (NWU) 12 Jun 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

The unwavering dedication of palliative care providers

Palliative care

The unwavering dedication of palliative care providers

Issued by MANGO-OMC 2 May 2025

HIV/AIDS

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

Jesse Copelyn 23 Apr 2025

Source: Reuters. Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) John Steenhuisen speaks to media in Cape Town, South Africa 14 June, 2024.

Taxation & Regulation

#Budget2025: Pushback over Fikile's D-Day announcement

Katja Hamilton 8 Apr 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

Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Health & Social Welfare

Africa's top health official presses US to resume health aid

Jennifer Rigby 6 Feb 2025

#MiningIndaba: Minerals Council says Trump funding freeze won’t affect mine HIV treatment

Health & Safety

#MiningIndaba: Minerals Council says Trump funding freeze won’t affect mine HIV treatment

Lindsey Schutters 5 Feb 2025

HIV/AIDS

‘I’m breaching my Hippocratic oath’ – Trump’s foreign aid freeze halts key HIV programmes

29 Jan 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

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

Source: The South African National Aids Council.

HIV/AIDS

Launch of initiative to end Aids in children by 2030

5 Dec 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

HIV alarm in Uganda as anti-gay law forces LGBT 'lockdown'

9 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

Legislation & Regulation

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

Reuters 30 May 2023

Source: Supplied.

HIV/AIDS

More men living with HIV are reaching out for treatment

1 Dec 2022

Covid-19

Significant rise in vaccination rates in sub-Saharan Africa

21 Feb 2022

Source: ©franco volpato

Pharmaceuticals

Multimillion-dollar project to provide fast access to medicines in SA

14 Oct 2021

If left untreated, latent TB infection can progress to TB disease.
Mujahid Safodien/AFP via Getty Images

Tuberculosis

TB treatments are notoriously hard to stick to: shorter regimens offer a breakthrough

Violet Chihota 23 Mar 2021

4th edition of SA's Standards for Palliative Healthcare Services ensures continued credibility and quality of local palliative healthcare sector

Palliative care

4th edition of SA's Standards for Palliative Healthcare Services ensures continued credibility and quality of local palliative healthcare sector

Issued by COHSASA 21 Jan 2021

About 70% of South Africans with HIV are on antiretroviral treatment.

HIV/AIDS

South Africa has the best HIV policies, report finds

James Stent 3 Dec 2020

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HIV/AIDS

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

Linda-Gail Bekker 1 Dec 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

Covid-19

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

Emily Wong 26 Mar 2020

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

Tuberculosis

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

Gavin Churchyard 14 Jan 2020

Global Citizen celebrates Madiba's legacy with music

Music

Global Citizen celebrates Madiba's legacy with music

3 Dec 2018

HIV/AIDS

Why integrating HIV with non-HIV services in Uganda won't work

Henry Zakumumpa 11 Oct 2018

Inclusivity is key in the fight against HIV

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Inclusivity is key in the fight against HIV

Steve Letsike 22 Jan 2018

Partnership to boost HIV treatment

HIV/AIDS

Partnership to boost HIV treatment

5 Jul 2017

Botswana begins the health accreditation journey...

Hospital Groups

Botswana begins the health accreditation journey...

Issued by COHSASA 1 Feb 2017

Dashboard will speed up SA's HIV suppression objectives

HIV/AIDS

Dashboard will speed up SA's HIV suppression objectives

22 Nov 2016

Auditions for TV drama MTV Shuga in Johannesburg

TV

Auditions for TV drama MTV Shuga in Johannesburg

6 Oct 2016

Film & Cinematography

New documentary seeks to stop spread of HIV

25 Jul 2016

ESG

PEPFAR welcomes return of International HIV/AIDS conference to Africa

21 Jul 2016

A scene from MTV Shuga

HIV/AIDS

#YouthMonth: Soapie cleans up attitude to HIV/Aids

9 Jun 2016

Johnson & Johnson's new global public health innovation space in Cape Town

Medical Research

J&J launches public health innovations space for Africa

Nicci Botha 8 Apr 2016

Doing good is not enough

ESG

Doing good is not enough

Leigh-Anne Acquisto 11 Sep 2015

FDA approves oral pellets for HIV/Aids treatment of infants

Pharmaceuticals

FDA approves oral pellets for HIV/Aids treatment of infants

4 Jun 2015

Generic HIV treatment submitted for FDA approval

HIV/AIDS

Generic HIV treatment submitted for FDA approval

27 May 2015