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Caprisa condemns fake news incident involving its director

Caprisa condemns fake news incident involving its director

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Codix Bio to produce HIV, malaria test kits amid USAid cutbacks

By Ben Ezeamalu 20 Jun 2025

Breaking the HIV bottleneck: Why sub-Saharan Africa must lead the way

Breaking the HIV bottleneck: Why sub-Saharan Africa must lead the way

By Bertie Jacobs 12 Jun 2025

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We are in great company! Medihelp turns 120 and celebrates legacy brands in South Africa

Medihelp We are in great company! Medihelp turns 120 and celebrates legacy brands in South Africa

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South Africa's economy reignites urgent mental health focus

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Big relief for little noses in South Africa’s allergy care market

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Cansa brings health experts and services to the workplace

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1 Jul 2025

Tapping into the lab economy: Africa’s big opportunities in medical research and diagnostics

ITP Communications Tapping into the lab economy: Africa’s big opportunities in medical research and diagnostics

1 Jul 2025

Medshield Medical Scheme delivers strong financial performance and member-centric growth in 2024

Stone Medshield Medical Scheme delivers strong financial performance and member-centric growth in 2024

30 Jun 2025

Medshield is committed to building a sustainable healthcare future

Stone Medshield is committed to building a sustainable healthcare future

27 Jun 2025

Cansa launches WhatsApp channel

CANSA Cansa launches WhatsApp channel

25 Jun 2025

Going green in healthcare: Medshield's Kevin Aron explains why medical schemes must lead the way

Stone Going green in healthcare: Medshield's Kevin Aron explains why medical schemes must lead the way

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What’s happening to my hormones? Medshield explains menopause

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The truth about why Africa needs blood now

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NWU strengthens global ties and gathers insight ahead of new medical school launch

North-West University (NWU)NWU strengthens global ties and gathers insight ahead of new medical school launch

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Source: Wikimedia/Lschefa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lesotho’s capital.

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 Jun 2025

Butterfly House: Unfolding hope

Butterfly House: Unfolding hope

Marilyn Keegan, COHSASA 22 May 2025

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US funding cuts could cause over 150,000 extra HIV infections in SA by 2028

Jesse Copelyn 23 Apr 2025

Source: Reuters.

Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strands drugs in warehouse

Aaron Ross, Tim Cocks and Vivianne Wandera 13 Mar 2025

Source: Reuters. Young residents carry water home after filling up a bottle at a community filling station in the informal settlement of Kanana after individuals died from cholera in Hammanskraal, South Africa, 24 May, 2023.

Former African presidents demand action as debt crisis reaches historic levels

Katja Hamilton 27 Feb 2025

Source: Reuters.

Trump's aid cuts stop South African HIV vaccine trials in their tracks

Catherine Schenck 19 Feb 2025

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USAID workforce reduced by 97%

Katja Hamilton 7 Feb 2025

#MiningIndaba: Minerals Council says Trump funding freeze won’t affect mine HIV treatment

#MiningIndaba: Minerals Council says Trump funding freeze won’t affect mine HIV treatment

Lindsey Schutters 5 Feb 2025

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‘I’m breaching my Hippocratic oath’ – Trump’s foreign aid freeze halts key HIV programmes

29 Jan 2025

In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

Liezl Human 23 Jan 2025

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Vaccines can put an end to HIV – African governments must take the lead in developing them

Glenda Gray and Asa Tapley 2 Jan 2025

An educator uses a model of the HIV virus to illustrate a lesson on Aids to youths at a primary health centre in Kobi suburb, Abuja, Nigeria 30 November 2022. Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo

New HIV prevention drug could reach poorest countries by 2025, says health official

Jennifer Rigby 18 Dec 2024

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17 Dec 2024

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How Afrocentric's Aid for Aids programme is transforming HIV care in South Africa

13 Dec 2024

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HIV: there’s hope for a cure – where we stand now

3 Dec 2024

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ARV supply set to triple: South Africa's new plan to tackle HIV

Katja Hamilton 2 Dec 2024

Source: Supplied. Logandran Naidoo, national medical director for AHF South Africa.

The Aids Healthcare Foundation rolls out in Mpumalanga

20 Nov 2024

Source: Supplied. Akin Jimoh, chief editor at Nature Africa.

Historic first: Africa hosts Inclusive Health Research Awards

Akin Jimoh 25 Oct 2024

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Alarming HIV stats in Mpumalanga: 890,000 infected

20 Sep 2024

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Significant progress has been made in controlling HIV in South Africa, report shows

23 Jul 2024

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HIV drug trial shows injection twice-yearly 100% effective against infection

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

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HIV among older South Africans in rural areas: big study shows there’s a problem that’s being neglected

Jen Manne-Goehler and Francesc Xavier Gomez-Olive Casas 5 Mar 2024

Source: Reuters.

HIV vaccine trial in Africa halted after disappointing data

8 Dec 2023

Source: Dischem.

Dis-Chem teams with Ezintsha to enhance access to HIV prevention

7 Dec 2023

Source: The South African National Aids Council.

Launch of initiative to end Aids in children by 2030

5 Dec 2023

Source: UNAids.

Kiara Health takes vital first step to making woman-controlled HIV prevention a reality

1 Dec 2023

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