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HIV/AIDS

Funding crisis threatens progress in fight against HIV/Aids

11 Jul 2025

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

Health & Safety

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

Lindsey Schutters 5 Feb 2025

Source: Pexels.

Healthcare

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

3 Dec 2024

HIV/AIDS

Alarming HIV stats in Mpumalanga: 890,000 infected

20 Sep 2024

Source: Supplied.

HIV/AIDS

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

23 Jul 2024

HIV/AIDS

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

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

HIV/AIDS

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

UCT professor wins prestigious global award

Higher Education

UCT professor wins prestigious global award

7 Dec 2023

Source: Advin Healthcare.

Noncommunicable diseases

TB vaccine: WHO expert explains why it's taken 100 years for a scientific breakthrough, and why it's such a big deal

Charles Shey Wiysonge 8 Nov 2023

HIV/AIDS

R40m NIH grant keeps HIV prevention as top priority in 2023

10 Mar 2023

HIV/AIDS

HIV prevention: new injection could boost the fight, but some hurdles remain

Jessica Haberer 28 Nov 2022

Cardiology

Cardiovascular disease is on the rise in South Africa

24 Aug 2022

Emergency Medicine

African solutions to African problems: Reframing science innovation

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD 9 Jun 2022

The shock of 134,500 Covid orphans in South Africa

Law of Succession

The shock of 134,500 Covid orphans in South Africa

Issued by Capital Legacy 30 Mar 2022

Source: Supplied. Professor Refiloe Masekela, head of UKZN’s Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Covid-19

Children in sub-Saharan Africa dying of Covid-19 at a higher rate than others

20 Jan 2022

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Primary & Secondary Education

Matric exam results won't be published on media platforms

11 Jan 2022

HIV/AIDS

South Africa loses a great champion and a powerful voice in the fight against HIV/Aids

Katja Hamilton 30 Dec 2021

Source: Supplied

HIV/AIDS

Aviro Health launches Pocket Clinic

3 Dec 2021

The gender impact of South Africa's pandemics

Health & Social Welfare

The gender impact of South Africa's pandemics

Phinah Kodisang 13 Sep 2021

A childhood vaccine given at birth is effective. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

This is no time to neglect hepatitis - 70-million Africans are infected

Pauline Bakibinga 27 Jul 2021

The importance of a Pap Smear

Hospital Groups

The importance of a Pap Smear

Issued by Intercare 1 Jul 2021

Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now

HIV/AIDS

Ending HIV in children is way off target: where to focus action now

Kaymarlin Govender & Linda-Gail Bekker 14 Jun 2021

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

HIV/AIDS

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

Gilles van Cutsem 10 Jun 2021

Antiretroviral treatment found to reduce risk of developing active TB - study

Medical Research

Antiretroviral treatment found to reduce risk of developing active TB - study

11 Mar 2021

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

HIV/AIDS

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

31 Dec 2020

Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus

HIV/AIDS

Here's where efforts to end HIV in eastern and southern Africa must focus

Kaymarlin Govender, Janet Seeley, Mitzy Gafos, Roselyn Kanyemba 24 Dec 2020

Sonali Pal Chaudhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images

HIV/AIDS

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

Linda-Gail Bekker 1 Dec 2020

Long-acting cabotegravir injections once every eight weeks was better than the daily tablet used for HIV prevention. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Large Africa study makes important breakthrough in HIV prevention

Ina Skosana 17 Nov 2020

UKZN’s Emeritus Professor Anna Coutsoudis

HIV/AIDS

SA study recommends changes to PMTCT guidelines

10 Nov 2020

Conditions like HIV, TB, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease increase the risk of pulmonary hypertension. Shutterstock

Noncommunicable diseases

Pulmonary hypertension: why creating awareness is key in Africa

Gerald J Maarman 9 Oct 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 laboratory technician processes samples for testing Covid-19 at the Rwanda Biomedical Center in Kigali. Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP via Getty

HIV/AIDS

How pooled testing can increase access to essential laboratory tests in Africa

Wolfgang Preiser & Gert van Zyl 4 Sep 2020

Inclusivity is key for the future of education in SA

Primary & Secondary Education

Inclusivity is key for the future of education in SA

13 Aug 2020

Aids activists lie down in protest in front of parliament in 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa.

HIV/AIDS

Aids conference: Covid-19, big breakthroughs and missed targets

Linda-Gail Bekker 29 Jul 2020

In South Africa, both HIV and pre-eclampsia are a burden to maternal health. GettyImages

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

HIV and high blood pressure in pregnancy: we're tracing the connections

Sayuri Padayachee 18 Jun 2020

Covid-19 jeopardising progress made in protecting women, girls from violence, harmful practices

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Covid-19 jeopardising progress made in protecting women, girls from violence, harmful practices

Justine Coulson, Roberta Clarke, and Mohamed M. Fall 17 Jun 2020

Emergency doctors and nurse performing CPR and inserting an IV drip on a patient. GettyImages

Covid-19

Tough choices about who gets ICU access: the ethical principles guiding South Africa

Keymanthri Moodley 8 Apr 2020

Covid-19 likely to exact heavy toll in Africa

Health & Social Welfare

Covid-19 likely to exact heavy toll in Africa

3 Apr 2020

Doctors Without Borders supporters march in protest to the American Consulate in Johannesburg in 2012 over lack of funding to fight HIV. Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Covid-19

TB, HIV and Covid-19: urgent questions as three epidemics collide

Emily Wong 26 Mar 2020

HIV/AIDS

How nutrition education can make a difference to people with HIV in Nigeria

Temitope Kayode Bello 21 Feb 2020

New HIV infections remain high. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

The search for an effective HIV vaccine continues

14 Feb 2020

Over R2m worth of LifeStyles Condoms donated to Dis-Chem Foundation

CSI

Over R2m worth of LifeStyles Condoms donated to Dis-Chem Foundation

Issued by ACDOCO SA 29 Jan 2020

HIV/AIDS

Messages about male circumcision aren't clear: why this is dangerous

Gwinyai Masukume & Witness Mapanga 29 Jan 2020

Researchers operate inexpensive drones to ‘see’ the areas with the highest likelihood of parasites. Chelsea L. Wood/University of Washington, CC BY-ND

Medical Research

Identifying aquatic plants with drones could be the key to reducing a parasitic infection in people

Chelsea L Wood 22 Jan 2020

HIV/AIDS

South Africa steps up its game to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Ute Feuch & Jeannette Wessels 9 Jan 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

HIV/AIDS

What does HIV look like in South Africa?

Nicci Botha 6 Dec 2019

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

HIV/AIDS

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

2 Dec 2019