Today, people over 50 make up the second largest group of South Africa’s HIV-positive population. But as people age, health ...

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In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone and Mia Malan explain why South Africa still as unsafe abortions. Sign up for our newsletter today. There are piles of R100 notes, a hand holding a tinted vial, ...

Baby Savers South Africa is taking the government to court over the ban on baby boxes in Gauteng. Are they a harmful tool ...

In today’s newsletter, Zano Kunene discusses how Hlokomela Clinic is making sure patients can still get tested and treated for HIV in spite of US global funding cuts. Sign up for our newsletter today.

In the eight years since the Gauteng health department ended its contract with a private psychiatric hospital group, Life Esidimeni, to look after long-term state mental health patients, a tragedy of ...

Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang say the past has some ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan unpacks how SA could lose 70% of its research capacity if it loses all of its NIH funding. Sign up for our newsletter today. R6.65-billion — or $350-million. That’s ...

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 ...

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