June 23
South Africa: 'The Law Is Clear': Sasha Stevenson Fights Back As Vigilantes Try To Keep Migrants Out Of Clinics
As executive director of SECTION27, Sasha Stevenson spent more than a decade fighting for migrants' right to healthcare, holding the state accountable for the Life Esidimeni… Read more »
June 18
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 »
June 15
South Africa: Could Where You Live Shape the Healthcare You Get In A Climate Crisis?
The world has seen the 11 hottest years on record between 2015 and 2025, and climate experts say the trend points to more intense and unpredictable weather ahead in the future. But… Read more »
June 17
South Africa: How South Africa Birthed the Next Generation of Nicotine Addicts
The electronic cigarette industry arrived in the country with lots of hype and no regulation more than a decade ago. Today, the vape industry is thriving, with no guardrails in… Read more »
June 11
Africa: Ebola is Back. So Are The Double Standards
Is history repeating itself — just four years after the COVID-19 pandemic — with the United States demanding an Ebola quarantine camp for Americans in Kenya? In… Read more »
June 05
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 »
May 25
South Africa: Misinformation is Coming for the Anti-HIV Jab. Let's Get Ahead Of It
A new HIV prevention injection could change the course of the epidemic — but only if people trust it. Research shows we can pre-empt the false claims already forming around… Read more »
May 20
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 »
May 14
South Africa: Girls in South Africa Get Free HPV Jabs. Boys Don't. Find Out Why They Should
From throat and anal cancers to reduced fertility, the human papillomavirus poses serious risks to men that go largely undetected and unvaccinated. South Africa vaccinates girls,… Read more »
May 07
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 »
May 11
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 »
April 28
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 »
April 16
Burkina Faso: The Spirits, The Marabouts, and the Eleven Psychiatrists in Burkina Faso
In Burkina Faso, more than 70 languages are spoken, armed conflict continues to escalate, and half the country's psychiatrists have left. With few mental health services available,… Read more »
April 21
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 »
April 23
South Africa: Teen Pregnancies Are Dramatically Dropping. But Researchers Aren't Sure Why
New research shows a steep decline in adolescent pregnancy rates across all nine provinces from 2021 to 2025, reversing course from previous years. It's good news, even if it's not… Read more »
April 01
Sierra Leone: Can Sierra Leone Keep Its Mothers Alive?
It's been a year since the US government's aid cuts sent shock waves around the world. But in one maternity hospital in Freetown it's the loss of UK funding that threatens to… Read more »
April 07
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 »
April 13
South Africa: Here's How to Make Drug Addiction a Health Issue, Not a Criminal One
Experts say South Africa's contradictory approach to drugs — treating addiction as both a disease and a crime — is fuelling a worsening crisis in places like Westbury,… Read more »
March 30
South Africa: Can Talks Save South Africa's NHI From A Courtroom War?
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has met with the South African Medical Association — one of the organisations taking him to court about the National Health… Read more »
March 16
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 »
March 19
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 »
March 23
South Africa: A R60 Test Could Help South Africa Find Millions More TB Patients - But Will It Miss The Most Dangerous Cases?
South Africa is trialling a cheap, portable TB test that costs a third of the current standard. But the new test can't detect drug-resistant TB, raising questions about how much… Read more »
March 24
South Africa: How a Boy Born on World TB Day Helped Turn the Tide on South Africa's Deadliest TB
Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease. Read more »
March 09
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 »
March 06
South Africa: Can South Africa Fix Its Health System Before the Courts Decide Its Fate?
The implementation of the NHI is effectively frozen in court and constitutional clashes, blocking South Africa's most sweeping health overhaul since 1994. We talked to health… Read more »
