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 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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explain why HIV scientists and government are once again pitted against each other. Sign up for our newsletter today. In the leafy office park not far from Charlotte ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan says South Africa needs R2.82-billion to plug the US funding gap. Sign up for our newsletter today. The national health department is convinced that all US government ...

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 ...

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, ...

This is an ode to the women whose names made it into news outlets between 2018 and 2020. It’s also a tribute to those who didn’t – the faceless, nameless women whose stories will remain untold. This ...