One in ten clinics in South Africa — across 22 health districts in six provinces — will start to hand out a twice-a-year anti-HIV jab as early as February. The country’s medicines regulator, Sahpra, ...

In April next year, South Africa plans to start rolling out an anti-HIV jab, taken only twice a year, that could end Aids in the country within 14 to 18 years. But is our public health system equipped ...

Young women are contracting HIV faster than anyone else in South Africa, with about four out of every 10 new infections coming from just this group, even though they make up only about 8% of the total ...

Obesity is surging in South Africa. What’s fuelling this epidemic and how does it contribute to diabetes and heart disease, SA’s top killers?

Hetero and Dr Reddy’s — will be funded by the Gates Foundation and Unitaid, respectively, to produce and sell the twice-a-year anti-HIV shot around R692 per person per year. We break down the ...

The scars left by the April 2022 flash floods aren’t obvious to visitors to this part of Inanda, the township just northwest of Durban. The earth seems to have healed itself, roads are passable and ...

In July 2025, several South African news outlets resurfaced a 2020 report that looked at whether common HIV medications, known as antiretrovirals or ARVs, were present in local water sources and what ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan tells us more about how SA will roll out LEN. Sign up for our newsletter today. The health department plans to make the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan asks if South Africa needs a ministerial advisory committee to deal with HIV funding cuts. Sign up for our newsletter today. Some of the things that have surfaced as ...

In today’s newsletter, Ida Jooste and Tanya Pampalone tells us how RFK Jr is now SA’s problem too. Sign up for our newsletter today. They used to call it the strangling angel. The grey membrane would ...

In today’s newsletter, Zano Kunene tells us why cigarette boxes need picture warnings. Sign up for our newsletter today. In Bangladesh, cigarette packs show a photo of an ulcer on a throat or someone ...