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HIV/AIDS

“Game-changing” HIV prevention drug reshapes employee benefits

Naseema Ephraim 30 Jul 2026

The winners will be announced in June. Source: Supplied.

Media

African finalists shine in Wan-Ifra's 2026 Digital Media Awards

20 Mar 2026

Source: Reuters.

Economy

Inside SA’s multi-million rand plan to fill US funding void

Jesse Copelyn 15 Aug 2025

Source ©: Sikuvile Awards The Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards were announced on Saturday evening, 20 July

Media Freedom

All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards winners

Danette Breitenbach 21 Jul 2024

All the Sanef Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards finalists

Newspapers

All the Sanef Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards finalists

5 Jun 2024

Social Media

Science journalism in South Africa: social media is helping connect with new readers

Sisanda Nkoala 17 May 2024

Healthcare

A huff and a puff: Could nicotine pouches put an end to smoking?

Christina Pitt 10 Apr 2024

The Limpopo Mirror is published in Louis Trichardt, a town in the north of South Africa’s Limpopo province. Photo: Anton van Zyl

Media

Google and Facebook are killing local news

Nathan Geffen and Anton van Zyl 8 Mar 2024

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: Licensing of anti-HIV jab ignites hope for millions in Africa

Katja Hamilton 26 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Juliet Houghton, the chief executive officer of the Southern African HIV Clinician’s Society.

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: SA prepares to roll out new HIV treatment plan for children

Katja Hamilton 14 Mar 2023

Sbu Ngala, chairperson of Sanef, Daily Maverick’s Pieter-Louis Myburgh winning Story of the Year for Digital Vibes, and Standard Bank CEO, Lungisa Fuzile

Newspapers

All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards 2022 winners

25 Jun 2022

Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards 2022 shortlist

Media

Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards 2022 shortlist

10 May 2022

Source: ©Elvira Koneva

Covid-19

Compulsory Covid-19 vaccines?

28 Sep 2021

Source: Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

Media

Vaccine denialism kills: Mail & Guardian has let down its readers

Nathan Geffen and Mia Malan 10 Aug 2021

Source: ©Leigh Prather

Covid-19

South Africa's vaccine quagmire, and what needs to be done now

Alex van den Heever, Imraan Valodia, Shabir A Madhi & Willem Venter 5 Jul 2021

Teacher vaccination 101

Education

Teacher vaccination 101

8 Jun 2021

People relying on HIV prevention, care and treatment services have become even more vulnerable because of COVID-19. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

HIV/AIDS

Why it's important to keep diagnosing and treating HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic

Kathryn L Hopkins & Glenda Gray 30 Nov 2020

To suppress the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of South Africans would have to be vaccinated. Nothing at that scale has been done here before. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Covid-19

Vaccinating tens of millions of people will be very difficult

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020

The 19th Vodacom Journalist of the Year regional winners

Media

The 19th Vodacom Journalist of the Year regional winners

17 Nov 2020

Covid-19 has not been as devastating in South Africa as initially feared. Dino Lloyd/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19 and HIV: so far it seems the outcome is not what was feared

Burtram C. Fielding 21 Sep 2020

A nurse demonstrates how to perform a swab test in Johannesburg, South Africa. Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

10 ways South Africa can step up care for its healthcare workers

Kaymarlin Govender, Gavin George, Sean Beckett & Tim Quinlan 23 Jul 2020

Mary-Ann Davies

Covid-19

TB, HIV less likely to cause Covid-19 death than other comorbidities

Nicci Botha 10 Jun 2020

Professors Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim

Covid-19

#OnTheFrontLine with the Abdool Karims

Nicci Botha 4 May 2020

Celebrate the people making the most of life with HIV

HIV/AIDS

Celebrate the people making the most of life with HIV

Michael Hathorn, Issued by Ginkgo Agency 29 Nov 2019

All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism winners. Image supplied.

Media

#SBSJA19: Pure Truth recognised

Danette Breitenbach 13 Sep 2019

Gauteng Health MEC, Dr Bandile Masuku

Public Health

Sama challenges health and safety issues in Gauteng

13 Sep 2019

Standard Bank Sikuvile 2019 journalist and SA story of the year winners, Dewald Van Rensburg and Sipho Masondo of City Press.

Media

#SBSJA19: All the Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism winners!

12 Sep 2019

Media

Bhekisisa MG is going solo

12 Jul 2019

Who is liable for unnecessary deaths due to EMS, ambulance crisis?

Medical Law

Who is liable for unnecessary deaths due to EMS, ambulance crisis?

26 Jun 2019

Doctors and nurses were held at gunpoint to stop giving patients treatment. (Paul Botes)

Public Health

Hospitals close in Mpumalanga as doctors and nurses fear for their safety

Nelisiwe Msomi 19 Jun 2019

Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalists announced!

Media

Sikuvile Journalism Awards: Finalists announced!

10 Jun 2019

New Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize (David Harrison)

Public Health

Politics & power: Why Zweli Mkhize may be a new dawn for health in SA - or not?

Mia Malan & Laura Lopez Gonzalez 31 May 2019

Former head of the Gauteng department of health Barney Selebano (pictured) may lose his license to practise medicine after an inqury into his involvement in the Life Esidimeni deaths in September. (Joyrene Kramer, Section27)

Mental health

Whatever happened to the doctors & nurses involved in the #LifeEsidimeni tragedy

Nelisiwe Msomi 27 May 2019

Getting South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine

Public Health

Getting South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine

Nelisiwe Msomi 17 May 2019

Private healthcare loses more than R22bn a year to fraud, waste

Medical Aid

Private healthcare loses more than R22bn a year to fraud, waste

Roxy de Villiers 1 Mar 2019

Photo: David Harrison

Healthcare

#BudgetSpeech2019: Will it lead to more doctors being sued for negligence?

Daniel McLaren 21 Feb 2019

A mother delivers via C-section in Mozambique. In South Africa, there’s no single reason for the climbing number of such procedures in the public sector but it could be proving deadly for mothers. (Shaun Swingler)

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

A changing birth: What's behind SA's skyrocketing C-section rates?

Laura Grant & Laura Lopez Gonzalez 10 Jan 2019

The country's state emergency services are facing staff and vehicle shortages, leaving provinces with no choice but to outsource these critical services. (Christopher Sebela / Flickr)

Public Health

If you need an ambulance this festive season, what are your chances of getting one?

Nelisiwe Msomi 18 Dec 2018

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. Photo:GCIS

Public Health

Are foreigners stealing your jobs and healthcare? Find out.

Savo Heleta, Sharon Ekambaram & Sibongile Tshabala 23 Nov 2018

Estranged bedfellows: Why the private sector remains wary of universal healthcare

NHI

Estranged bedfellows: Why the private sector remains wary of universal healthcare

Joan van Dyk 21 Nov 2018

Deputy President David Mabuza

NHI

Mabuza: 'The NHI must not negate private health schemes for those who desire them'

19 Oct 2018

Photo: Western Cape Government

Tuberculosis

Thousands of us die from these illnesses each day. Will it ever end?

Yogan Pillay 11 Oct 2018

The 2018 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards' investigative journalism and story of the year winners on stage.

Media

Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards 2018 winners announced!

13 Sep 2018

Former North West premier, Supra Mahumapelo. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Public Health

Supra Mahumapelo's legacy? Closed clinics, drug shortages and millions in debt

Nelisiwe Msomi 14 Aug 2018

Barney Selebano, former head of department. Photo: Joyrene Kramer, Section 27

Mental health

How many doctors and nurses will lose their licenses over #LifeEsidimeni?

Nelisiwe Msomi 7 Aug 2018

Hospital Groups

Why South Africa needs to discipline the private healthcare industry

Steven Friedman 26 Jul 2018

Qedani Mahlangu. Photo: Andronica Nedzamba

Mental health

Mahlangu, Hlongwa elected to top Gauteng ANC body

Laura Lopez Gonzalez 25 Jul 2018

You're paying more for less when it comes to medical aid. Here's why

Financial Services

You're paying more for less when it comes to medical aid. Here's why

6 Jul 2018

At a glance: What the National Health Insurance means for you and your pocket

NHI

At a glance: What the National Health Insurance means for you and your pocket

Mia Malan 28 Jun 2018