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Malaria

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

Ben Ezeamalu 20 Jun 2025

Image: Gates Foundation

Public Health

Healthcare, poverty alleviation at the heart of Bill Gates' final philanthropic push

Maroefah Smith 12 Jun 2025

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

HIV/AIDS

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

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 Jun 2025

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Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

SA advocates for linguistic equity in AI at G20

8 Apr 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)

CSI & Philanthropy

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

Liezl Human 23 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

HIV/AIDS

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

Jennifer Rigby 18 Dec 2024

Global Citizen now comes to Rio De Janeiro, with Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa

Climate Change

Global Citizen now comes to Rio De Janeiro, with Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa

Issued by OnPoint PR 22 Nov 2024

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Climate Change

Polluters must pay: How COP29 can make this a reality

Llewellyn Leonard 4 Nov 2024

Source: Reuters.

Infectious Diseases

Gavi to buy 500,000 mpox vaccine doses from Bavarian Nordic

Jennifer Rigby 19 Sep 2024

Benson Boone and RAYE join 2024 Global Citizen Festival lineup

Events

Benson Boone and RAYE join 2024 Global Citizen Festival lineup

Issued by OnPoint PR 29 Aug 2024

Doja Cat, Post Malone, and Rauw Alejandro to headline 2024 Global Citizen Fest in NYC's Central Park

Music

Doja Cat, Post Malone, and Rauw Alejandro to headline 2024 Global Citizen Fest in NYC's Central Park

Issued by OnPoint PR 19 Jun 2024

Malaria - we’ve barely scratched the surface

Malaria

Malaria - we’ve barely scratched the surface

Issued by Irvine Partners 30 Apr 2024

Source: Supplied. Amsterdam Institute for Global Health & Development.

Tuberculosis

$94m injected into TB fight

25 Mar 2024

Malaria

A historic milestone: WHO-endorsed malaria vaccine now administered across Africa

23 Jan 2024

Source: The South African National Aids Council.

HIV/AIDS

Launch of initiative to end Aids in children by 2030

5 Dec 2023

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ms Lauryn Hill to headline 2023 Global Citizen Festival

Events

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ms Lauryn Hill to headline 2023 Global Citizen Festival

Issued by OnPoint PR 14 Jul 2023

Global Citizen announces 5 new ambassadors

ESG

Global Citizen announces 5 new ambassadors

Issued by OnPoint PR 30 Jun 2023

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Events

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 8 Jun 2023

Ugandan human rights lawyer and activist leads fellow activists to file a petition challenging the signing of the new Anti-homosexuality law by President Yoweri Museveni, at the constitution court in Kampala, Uganda, 29 May 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Legislation & Regulation

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

Reuters 30 May 2023

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Events

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 24 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Rose Leke, chair of Gavi's IRC.

Healthcare

Gavi appoints Rose Leke as IRC chair

8 Feb 2023

Noncommunicable diseases

Hypertension, diabetes, stroke: they kill more people than infectious diseases and should get a Global Fund

Kaushik Ramaiya 30 Dec 2022

TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa - what went wrong?

Tuberculosis

TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa - what went wrong?

Tom Nyirenda 20 Dec 2022

Anglo American commits $15m to Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment

CSI & Philanthropy

Anglo American commits $15m to Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment

22 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied.

Markets & Investment

SA's Discovery partners with BlackRock for new asset management entity

Promit Mukherjee 23 Aug 2022

Global stars join thousands of youth voices at Kigali Summit to demand urgent action to end malaria

Advertising

Global stars join thousands of youth voices at Kigali Summit to demand urgent action to end malaria

Issued by Dentsu 28 Jun 2022

Source: Supplied. Jonathan Keytel, head: Healthcare Transformation and Sustainability at Roche Diagnostics.

Healthcare

Africa Day: Driving healthcare access across borders

25 May 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

Smart lockers expand countrywide as patients demand quick medicine collection

5 Apr 2022

HIV/AIDS

Covid-19 threatens gains made in HIV/Aids fight

Katja Hamilton 1 Dec 2021

Covid-19

G20 leaders called on to correct Covid-19 vaccine discrepencies

26 Oct 2021

Source: ©tashatuvango

Tuberculosis

TB: an orphan disease?

Danette Breitenbach 1 Oct 2021

Source: ©The Global Fund. A march through Agogo town in Ghana to educate citizens on malaria

HIV/AIDS

Covid-19's adverse impact on HIV, TB and malaria programmes

8 Sep 2021

Global Citizen Live line-ups revealed for Lagos, Paris and NYC events

Events

Global Citizen Live line-ups revealed for Lagos, Paris and NYC events

Issued by OnPoint PR 11 Aug 2021

Source: ©Esben Hansen

Covid-19

Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution

Maria De Jesus 23 Jun 2021

Ondela Mlandu, head of media at Positive Dialogue

Youth Month

#YouthMatters: Ondela Mlandu speaks passion, learning and thriving

Emily Stander 23 Jun 2021

Global Citizen announces Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as campaign chairs of Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World

Events

Global Citizen announces Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as campaign chairs of Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World

Issued by OnPoint PR 28 Apr 2021

Global Citizen urges wealthy nations to pledge 'dollars for doses' to vaccinate 6.5m African health workers

Health & Social Welfare

Global Citizen urges wealthy nations to pledge 'dollars for doses' to vaccinate 6.5m African health workers

Issued by OnPoint PR 14 Apr 2021

Premal Ranchod, head of ESG research, Alexander Forbes Investments

Markets & Investment

ESG moves beyond niche into the mainstream

Premal Ranchod 1 Dec 2020

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HIV/AIDS

Battles won - and lost - against Aids hold valuable lessons for managing Covid-19

Linda-Gail Bekker 1 Dec 2020

Strengthening healthcare supply chain systems in Africa

Supply Chain

Strengthening healthcare supply chain systems in Africa

20 Nov 2020

Digital strategy and content for Adolescent Girls and Young Women Programme

Education

Digital strategy and content for Adolescent Girls and Young Women Programme

Issued by Nacosa 8 Oct 2020

Preventing TB: a big drug price cut paves the way for global scale-up

Tuberculosis

Preventing TB: a big drug price cut paves the way for global scale-up

Gavin Churchyard 14 Jan 2020

Soul City Institute appoints Phinah Kodisang as CEO

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Soul City Institute appoints Phinah Kodisang as CEO

5 Dec 2019

Image: Medicines for Malaria

Malaria

Climate change could increase the threat of malaria in Central Africa

23 Oct 2019

Primedia Outdoor joins voices around the world to call on more people to demand that 'Malaria Must Die'

OOH

Primedia Outdoor joins voices around the world to call on more people to demand that 'Malaria Must Die'

Issued by Primedia Out-of-Home 15 Oct 2019

Activate: The Global Citizen Movement, Sundays on National Geographic

TV

Activate: The Global Citizen Movement, Sundays on National Geographic

Issued by The Walt Disney Company Africa 16 Sep 2019

Kenya introduces anti-malaria vaccine

Malaria

Kenya introduces anti-malaria vaccine

16 Sep 2019

Image: World Health Organisation

HIV/AIDS

Malawi races towards global HIV targets

WATIPASO MZUNGU 14 Aug 2019