The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis
After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities are settling in
The majority of those displaced in emergencies are women and girls, increasing their risk of sexual violence. Girls are forced into child marriage or transactional sex, both last…
Chinese government says this isn’t an attempt to capture the South African government but an initiative meant to help South Africans
In his weekly newsletter, the president said the G20 must urgently address the fiscal conditions that have left low- and middle-income countries unable to build resilience or…
G20 Health Ministers and international organisations meeting in Polokwane, South Africa, are focusing their attention on an urgent shared threat to public health: inequalities.…
The Mail & Guardian will host the launch of a new report that will show how inequality gaps within and between countries impact pandemics and vulnerability to a new pandemic. The…
HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach…
The United States’ shutdown of HIV/Aids funding may harm global Aids programmes irreparably, jeopardising millions of lives and putting HIV prevention at risk
The pandemic is still claiming lives in the Indian Ocean country due to lack of HIV prevention and treatment services
Zero discrimination is essential to if we are to change the fact that 7.8 million South Africans live with HIV, but 5.8 million people are on ARVs, highlighting a treatment gap
The Nomakhayas of Nqileni in the Eastern Cape give us a case study to replicate This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail &…
Treatment Action Campaign and other civil society groups forced a reluctant Mbeki government to change its stance and roll out ARVs
On current trends, the world will not meet agreed global targets on Aids, the new UNAids report, Dangerous Inequalities, shows. Urgent action to disrupt the power imbalance of…
Setting new 90-90-90 targets for CD4 testing, cryptococcal antigen, and TB testing, and treatment, aligned to the WHO AHD package of care would be a positive step towards ending…
A leading Kenyan public health and community-based health care specialist knows the importance of local level involvement, particularly for epidemics and pandemics
Controlling Covid-19 may worsen Africa’s HIV epidemic by stopping state and civil society health services built up over 35 years
The World Health Organization launches an inquiry after claims of ‘legendary’ corruption, including racism and sexism.
The investigation of an independent panel recommends reviewing whether UNAids executive director Michel Sidibé should continue in his role.
A report by UNAids has revealed that SA’s antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
