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Tenofovir, lamivudine and dolutegravir are arguably the three most important medicines in South Africa. Archive photo: GroundUp Staff

HIV/AIDS

Cipla wins court fight over HIV pill tender

Tania Broughton 23 Oct 2026

The Merck Research Laboratories in South San Francisco, California. Image credit: , , via Wikimedia Commons

Generic Medicines

Aspen gets Merck licensing agreement for experimental HIV pill

Christy Santhosh 24 Jul 2026

Local production of Gilead's HIV drug in South Africa could boost access

HIV/AIDS

Local production of Gilead's HIV drug in South Africa could boost access

Jennifer Rigby 5 Mar 2026

Source: Reuters.

HIV/AIDS

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.

HIV/AIDS

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

Catherine Schenck 19 Feb 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

Hospital staff in Lagos, Nigeria, administer the AstraZeneca vaccine. AP Photo/Sunday Alamba

Covid-19

How to get Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries - and still keep patent benefits for drugmakers

Dalindyebo Shabalala 16 Apr 2021

Many factors influence how consistently women take their HIV medicine. GettyImages

HIV/AIDS

Zambian study points to why some mothers don't carry on taking HIV drugs

Jerry John Nutor 30 Sep 2020

The spread of false information can have a devastating impact on affected communities. Woohae Cho/Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

False information fuels fear during disease outbreaks: there is an antidote

Marina Joubert 10 Feb 2020

#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

17 Dec 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

HIV/AIDS

What does HIV look like in South Africa?

Nicci Botha 6 Dec 2019

Syringe and cooked heroin. TM_SALE/Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

Science, strides and a resilient nation... 30 years later

Health & Social Welfare

Science, strides and a resilient nation... 30 years later

Dr Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa 3 Dec 2018

In this 2012 photo, grandmother Janet Kitheka, 63, collects her adopted “granddaughter” Lucy, 13, at the end of the school day in the yard of the Hot Courses Primary School, in the village of Nyumbani which caters to children who lost their parents to HIV, and grandparents who lost their children to HIV in Kenya.

HIV/AIDS

Aspirin could help reduce HIV infections in women

Colin Graydon and Monika Kowatsch 20 Nov 2018

Wanted: affordable medicines for all

Pharmaceuticals

Wanted: affordable medicines for all

Franck Kuwonu 13 Feb 2017

Lifting the veil on drug pricing and trade agreements

Pharmaceuticals

Lifting the veil on drug pricing and trade agreements

Laura Lopez Gonzalez 20 Sep 2016

HIV/AIDS

HIV in South Africa - the war rages on

6 Feb 2015

AIDS drug also offers protection against malaria, study finds

HIV/AIDS

AIDS drug also offers protection against malaria, study finds

Denise L Meyer 22 Dec 2014

Financial Services

R1bn pumped towards NHI

23 Feb 2012

Drug delivery gets sophisticated

Science

Drug delivery gets sophisticated

Wilma den Hartigh 9 Feb 2012

Researchers discover promising anti-HIV agents

HIV/AIDS

Researchers discover promising anti-HIV agents

Eric Gershon 22 Nov 2011

HIV integration requires use of a host DNA-repair pathway

HIV/AIDS

HIV integration requires use of a host DNA-repair pathway

25 Mar 2011

HIV/AIDS

Mother-baby HIV box aims to help halt transmission

11 Nov 2010

HIV/AIDS

New findings may help researchers design drugs that can prevent HIV

10 Jun 2010

HIV/AIDS

HIV drugs could stop disease spread

27 May 2010

HIV/AIDS

Battle for HIV drugs market getting tougher

Mansi Shah 30 Sep 2008

HIV/AIDS

Heart disease a major killer in the HIV positive

25 Jun 2008

HIV/AIDS

HIV drug designed for children wins FDA approval

11 Oct 2007