From August, clinics countrywide will issue patients who are doing well on their ARVs, a six-month supply, twice a year. 6MMD is widespread in Africa and started in the Western Cape last year. How ...

The health department has R622-million extra to prop up South Africa’s HIV treatment programme in the wake of foreign aid ...

SA has accepted an offer of just over R520-million from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria to buy the twice-a-year ...

Misinformation fuelled by US health czar Robert Kennedy Jr is creating a dangerous — and growing — lack of trust in vaccines.

Congress removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration wants to cut funds, doesn’t cancel the cuts to global HIV and TB programmes made in February. HIV projects that have ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone talks death, dying and medical school. Sign up for our newsletter today. COMMENT There is an old joke about someone collapsing on an aeroplane mid-flight. The ...

SA has accepted an offer of just over R520-million from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria to buy the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir. Research shows the shot could help end Aids in ...

Misinformation fuelled by US health czar Robert Kennedy Jr is creating a dangerous — and growing — lack of trust in vaccines. Here’s why South Africa’s public health experts are scared.

South Africa’s HIV programme is the biggest in the world, but now it’s been cut thin, with the loss of billions in US funding. Health economists warn of a surge in new infections and deaths if South ...