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Oncology

Why SA needs an HIV-responsive, equity-centred cervical cancer elimination strategy

Zwelethu Bashman and Dr Ntombi Sigwebela 3 days

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Law Practice

Privacy vs defamation: Why it is vital to choose the correct cause of harm

Odwa Abraham and Lamiah Casoo 11 Dec 2025

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Health & Social Welfare

Sassa and NDA make significant strides in improving South Africa's social services

11 Sep 2025

Image credit: Photo by Mathurin NAPOLY / matnapo on Unsplash

Public Health

The global health system can build back better after US aid cuts – here’s how

Jonathan E. Cohen 8 Aug 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

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

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

SA presses forward for a just society

3 Mar 2025

Viatris invests R100m in Isando to increase local ARV manufacturing

Pharmaceuticals

Viatris invests R100m in Isando to increase local ARV manufacturing

4 Dec 2024

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Healthcare

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

3 Dec 2024

Source: Master of Laws in Medical Law cum laude graduate Sarah Patel.

Ethics & Medicolegal

Promoting the medical and legal rights of HIV-positive women

23 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 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: Dischem.

HIV/AIDS

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

7 Dec 2023

Source: The South African National Aids Council.

HIV/AIDS

Launch of initiative to end Aids in children by 2030

5 Dec 2023

Nominations open for the South African Health Excellence Awards

Healthcare

Nominations open for the South African Health Excellence Awards

Issued by Clinix Health Group 20 Oct 2023

Source: Supplied. Seithati Molefi, deputy chief-of-party at Right to Care.

Women's Health

Let's talk about sex that is safe and satisfying

Seithati Molefi 16 Aug 2023

File photo: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni speaks during a Reuters interview at his farm in Kisozi settlement of Gomba district, in the Central Region of Uganda, January 16, 2022. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa/File Photo

Legislation & Regulation

Uganda parliament passes harsh anti-LGBTQ bill mostly unchanged

Aaron Ross 2 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Mary Rodgers, a virus hunter and scientist at Abbott who works with the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition.

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: Abbott's top scientist speaks to staying one step ahead of a constantly mutating virus

Katja Hamilton 28 Apr 2023

How can living a normal life be sustained for people living with HIV/AIDS?

HIV/AIDS

How can living a normal life be sustained for people living with HIV/AIDS?

Issued by Stone 29 Mar 2023

Ugandan legislators participate in the debate of the Anti-Homosexuality bill, which proposes tough new penalties for same-sex relations during a sitting at the Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda 21 March 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Legislation & Regulation

Uganda passes a law making it a crime to identify as LGBTQ

Elias Biryabarema 22 Mar 2023

HPV awareness key In lowering cervical cancer risk

Oncology

HPV awareness key In lowering cervical cancer risk

Issued by CANSA 3 Mar 2023

Source: Supplied. Alex Schmid, founder of Contro.

Medtech

#YouthMonth: A vision for informed choices in sexual and reproductive health

Katja Hamilton 5 Jun 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

Source: Supplied.

HIV/AIDS

More men living with HIV are reaching out for treatment

1 Dec 2022

HIV/AIDS

Study finds HIV-positive cervical cancer patients face higher mortality rate

27 Sep 2022

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Women empowerment key in fight against HIV and Aids

2 Dec 2021

Source: © HONGQI ZHANG

HIV/AIDS

Education key to equal access to healthcare for sex workers

Danette Breitenbach 28 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

Healthcare worker, Boitsholo Mfolo, inside the digital x-ray truck at one of Africa Health Research Institute’s mobile screening camps in rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Samora Chapman/ Africa Health Research Institute

Noncommunicable diseases

Study shows a huge burden of undiagnosed disease in a rural South African district

Emily B Wong 28 Jun 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

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma, who is facing fraud and corruption charges, greets supporters in the gallery of the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, May 17, 2021. Reuters/Rogan Ward

Criminal Law

Arms deal graft trial against Zuma adjourned to 26 May

Wendell Roelf & Mfuneko Toyana, 18 May 2021

Fungal infections might be dangerous to Covid-19 patients with severe symptoms in ICU

Covid-19

Fungal infections might be dangerous to Covid-19 patients with severe symptoms in ICU

14 May 2021

#WorldTBDay2021: Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV at increased risk

Tuberculosis

#WorldTBDay2021: Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV at increased risk

24 Mar 2021

The WHO recommends that TB prevalence surveys be done in high burden countries. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Tuberculosis

First ever national survey shows the extent of South Africa's TB problem

Emily B Wong & Alison Grant 15 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

Professor Adrie Bekker

HIV/AIDS

Study investigates best treatment options for newborns exposed to HIV

27 Nov 2020

Beautiful News celebrates 4 years of proving that good news sells

Media

Beautiful News celebrates 4 years of proving that good news sells

Amy Pieterse, Issued by Ginkgo Agency 18 Nov 2020

UKZN’s Emeritus Professor Anna Coutsoudis

HIV/AIDS

SA study recommends changes to PMTCT guidelines

10 Nov 2020

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

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

Professor Gerhard Walzl. Image: Twitter

Tuberculosis

Study to evaluate new TB diagnostic tests and treatments

9 Sep 2020

A victim of the Aids pandemic is buried in Cape Town in 2004. Kim Ludbrook/EPA.

Media

Coronavirus media coverage must avoid the mistakes of the Aids pandemic in Africa

Ludek Stavinoha 13 Jul 2020

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Covid-19 in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine: the challenges of running a trial in the middle of a pandemic

Jeffrey Mphahlele 7 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