South Africa: What Happens When the World's Best HIV Prevention Tool Meets the Planet's Deadliest Infectious Disease?

The roll-out of South Africa's six-monthly HIV prevention medication lenacapavir (LEN) has to consider our other epidemic: TB. Read more »

South Africa: How to Use the Anti-HIV Jab and Where To Find It

The six-monthly anti-HIV jab, which prevents HIV through sex, is now stocked for free at 360 government clinics in six of South Africa's provinces. So how does the jab work, how do… Read more »

South Africa: The HIV Prevention Jab Scientists Hoped for is Finally Here. Now Comes the Hard Part

On June 5, South Africa is about to begin one of its most important HIV prevention drives in decades. The country will start to roll out an HIV prevention injection that has to be… Read more »

South Africa: 9 Lessons to Make South Africa's Anti-HIV Jab Roll-Out Work

In less than a month , South Africa will start rolling out the most potent HIV prevention medication the world has seen. But that alone doesn't guarantee that HIV-negative people… Read more »

South Africa: Somebody Call Hasina

By all accounts, Hasina Subedar is who you call when you need to roll out, well, anything new in public health. Known for her grit, grace and humour, the non-conformist middle… Read more »

South Africa: More HIV Funding Cuts Are Coming For South Africa. This Time It's A Slow Fade, But With Clear Risks

The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria will start to cut its grant support to South Africa in just two years, with its final grant ending in eight years. Some… Read more »

South Africa: Our Anti-HIV Jab Will Be Rolled Out in 6 Weeks. But Funding Cuts Hollowed Out The System Needed to Deliver It

The uptake of the once-every-six-month HIV prevention jab lenacapavir (LEN) in South Africa will be heavily affected by the Trump administration's funding cuts to the country , a… Read more »

South Africa: Our LEN Is Here. Now For Quality Checks in Ireland

SA's first consignment of the twice-a-year anti-HIV injection, lenacapavir — 37 920 doses — arrived last week at OR Tambo Airport via two… Read more »

South Africa: CAB-LA - The Prevention Jab That Never Had Its Moment, and What It Leaves Behind as LEN Arrives

CAB-LA, the two-monthly HIV prevention injection, was approved in South Africa over three years ago but never reached government clinics. As lenacapavir prepares to launch,… Read more »

South Africa: 180,000 Infections in 2024, 47,000 by 2045 - If South Africa Rolls Out the Twice-A-Year HIV Prevention Jab Fast Enough

South Africa will receive its first batch of the once-every-six-months HIV prevention shot, lenacapavir, soon. Roll-out in government clinics is set to start within the next couple… Read more »

South Africa: Bringing It Home - South Africa is Leading the Charge to Make Anti-HIV jab for Africa

South Africa's National Aids Council, Sanac, has asked local drug companies to  submit applications by April 7  to make generic versions of an anti-HIV jab that could… Read more »

South Africa: HIV Made Him Expect To Die At 40. At 73, Edwin Cameron Asks: Who's Planning For Our Ageing Survivors?

At 33, retired Constitutional Court justice Edwin Cameron thought he had, maybe, seven years left. His story traces the arc from certain death from Aids to a chronic, manageable… Read more »

South Africa: The Anti-HIV Jab Buhle Trusts - and 456,000 South Africans Can Soon Get for Free

For the past three years, Buhle Sikade, 22, has been using an injection that gives her almost foolproof protection against getting HIV through sex — medicine that around 456… Read more »

South Africa: When Politics Trumps Science - Why the US Isn't Giving South Africa LEN

By shutting South Africa out of its overseas funding for the roll-out of the revolutionary six-monthly HIV prevention jab which could potentially end Aids, the Trump administration… Read more »

South Africa: South Africa Wants To Make Its Own Six-Monthly HIV Prevention Jabs By 2027. But There's A Hitch

The South African government says it could fill the potential gap in the number of doses  it will need of the twice-yearly HIV prevention jab to end Aids by 2043  by… Read more »

South Africa: South Africa's First Batch Of LEN Jabs Will Arrive In February. Use Bhekisisa's Dashboard To Find Out Who Should Get Them

The first batch of lenacapavir shots, a new six-monthly anti-HIV injection, should "be managed strategically", said Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi in October. Modelling data… Read more »

South Africa: From Toilets to TB - Candice Andisiwe Sehoma's Life of Activism

From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients. Read more »

South Africa: The Six-Monthly Anti-HIV Jab Could be in 360 Clinics by February. Who Should Get the First Doses?

One in ten clinics in South Africa — across 22 health districts in six provinces — could start to hand out a twice-a-year anti-HIV jab as early as February if the… Read more »

South Africa: SA Becomes The First African Country to Register the Twice-a-year Anti-HIV Jab — at Record Speed

South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab,… Read more »

South Africa: The Six-Monthly Anti-HIV Jab is Coming. But Can South Africa Keep Track of Millions of Users?

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… Read more »

South Africa: Two Drugmakers Will Sell The 6-monthly Anti-HIV Jab for The Price of The Daily HIV Prevention Pill

Two Indian generic drugmakers — Hetero and Dr Reddy’s — will be funded by the Gates Foundation and Unitaid, respectively, to produce and sell the twice-a-year… Read more »

South Africa: Are There HIV Meds in the Water? Here's What the Science Says

An old research report turned up in the headlines last month and left South Africans worried about our water systems. Bhekisisa joined up with Africa Check to find out how good… Read more »

South Africa: South Africa Plans Anti-HIV Jab Roll-Out at 300+ Clinics by April. By 2027 the Government Will Be Buying Generics

The health department plans to make the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir , available at more than 300 government clinics in health districts — with high rates of… Read more »

South Africa: At 16, He Mediated a Highjacking. Now He's Negotiating for the Survival of HIV Programmes

Ndiviwe Mphothulo started in politics at the age of 12 in Soweto, where he was born with activism in his bloodline. Now, a medical doctor and the president of the Southern African… Read more »

South Africa: Most People on ARVs Stay on Them - Does Our Health System Know That?

The health department has R622-million extra to prop up South Africa's HIV treatment programme in the wake of foreign aid cuts. But it's only about a fifth of the total gap. We… Read more »