In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone tells us what you were reading in 2025. Sign up for our newsletter today. Like the rest of the world, our editor-in-chief, Mia Malan, spent far too much time ...

We’ve put together a short list of our favourite essays and longform stories. These stories don't always make the headlines but they often take us deeper into the people and places on the frontlines ...

Having a baby in sub-Saharan Africa is riskier than anywhere else according to the latest State of the World's Mothers report.

Professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of SA's foremost HIV researchers, were recently the health department's greatest enemies.

On Saturday, the US state department issued details of who qualifies for a limited waiver during the Trump administration’s 90-day pause of foreign aid. The freeze has resulted in the temporary close ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan asks who in SA should get LEN first. Sign up for our newsletter today. One in ten clinics in South Africa — across 22 health districts in six provinces — could start ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how the twice-yearly HIV prevention jab, lenacapavir, will be rolled out with or without the US. Sign up for our newsletter today. The Global Fund for HIV, TB ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how US President Donald Trump ordered USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down. Sign up for our newsletter today. Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains why there were empty seats at this year’s Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (Croi). Sign up for our newsletter today. In Yerba Buena ...

WINDING ROAD: A community health worker delivers ARVs to a patient’s home in the Xhora Mouth Administrative Area, Eastern Cape.

In 2021, clinics had a 20% vacancy rate for doctor positions and 14% of doctor posts were empty in hospitals too. (Envato Elements) South Africa is producing more doctors than what the country’s under ...