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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

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HIV/AIDS

“Game-changing” HIV prevention drug reshapes employee benefits

Naseema Ephraim 30 Jul 2026

HIV/AIDS

South Africa moves to eliminate HIV threat with Lenacapavir rollout

5 Jun 2026

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Medical Law

Hidden costs of medical errors: Landmark case in Uganda spotlights HIV misdiagnosis

Mtho Maphumulo 23 Mar 2026

Cipla to secure South Africa's ARV supply amid supplier crisis

HIV/AIDS

Cipla to secure South Africa's ARV supply amid supplier crisis

6 Feb 2026

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HIV/AIDS

HIV funding still falls short of targets after pledges: what’s at stake

Melanie Bisnauth 5 Jan 2026

HIV/AIDS

Pepfar Bridge Plan gives South Africa's HIV/Aids efforts $115m boost

16 Oct 2025

Pharmacists can initiate people with HIV on antiretroviral treatment, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled. Photo: GroundUp Staff

Medical Law

Pharmacists can treat people with HIV, appeal court rules

10 Oct 2025

Image credit: Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Medical Aid

HQA 2024: Progress and pitfalls for South Africa's private healthcare sector

21 Aug 2025

Logistics: A lifeline for SA’s healthcare system

Logistics & Transport

Logistics: A lifeline for SA’s healthcare system

8 Aug 2025

A learner holds up trading cards featuring some of the SuperScientists. This cartoon series, created by Justin Yarrow with a team of local scientists, illustrators and designers, is based on real-life African scientists. Photos: Justin Yarrow/SuperScientists

Education

Biologist turns real-life African scientists into superheroes

Ihsaan Haffejee 15 Jul 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

HIV/AIDS

US funding cuts could cause over 150,000 extra HIV infections in SA by 2028

Jesse Copelyn 23 Apr 2025

Rethinking CSI to meet the collaboration imperative

CSI & Philanthropy

Rethinking CSI to meet the collaboration imperative

Issued by Trialogue 24 Mar 2025

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Healthcare

USAID workforce reduced by 97%

Katja Hamilton 7 Feb 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

HIV/AIDS

Vaccines can put an end to HIV – African governments must take the lead in developing them

Glenda Gray and Asa Tapley 2 Jan 2025

HIV/AIDS

How Afrocentric's Aid for Aids programme is transforming HIV care in South Africa

13 Dec 2024

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

HIV/AIDS

Alarming HIV stats in Mpumalanga: 890,000 infected

20 Sep 2024

Source: The Rural Healthcare Advocacy Project.

Healthcare

A holistic approach will build a stronger rural healthcare system

12 Jul 2024

Source: Supplied. Bada Pharasi, chief executive officer of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (Ipasa).

Healthcare

Research and innovation key to safeguarding SA’s health resiliency

27 Jun 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

NHI

#BudgetSpeech2024: Government allocates R848bn for health sector, prioritises NHI

23 Feb 2024

Tuberculosis

South Africa confronts alarming TB death rate despite declining infections

13 Dec 2023

Source: UNAids.

HIV/AIDS

Kiara Health takes vital first step to making woman-controlled HIV prevention a reality

1 Dec 2023

HIV/AIDS

Decline in SA's HIV prevalence, survey shows

29 Nov 2023

Source: Professor Kogie Naidoo has been elected as a Fellow of the prestigious Royal Society in South Africa (RSSAf).

HIV/AIDS

Renowned TB scientist elected Fellow, Royal Society South Africa

18 Sep 2023

Source: Supplied. Pfizer and Unjani team with Sister Happiness.

Facilities & Property Management

Pfizer and Unjani open Daggafontein clinic

5 Sep 2023

HIV/AIDS

Landmark court approval for pharmacists to directly prescribe medicine to HIV patients

18 Aug 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

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: Western Cape launches U=U campaign

Katja Hamilton 2 Aug 2023

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: Urgent action needed for high incidence among MSM

Hans Croukamp 20 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

HIV alarm in Uganda as anti-gay law forces LGBT 'lockdown'

9 Jun 2023

HIV/AIDS

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

Katja Hamilton 26 May 2023

NHI

The progress towards achieving universal health coverage needs to remain on track

Ahmed Banderker 20 Mar 2023

HIV/AIDS

R40m NIH grant keeps HIV prevention as top priority in 2023

10 Mar 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: Pixabay.

HIV/AIDS

Injectable HIV treatment offers hope to Ugandan patients

22 Dec 2022

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

Source: Supplied. UCT's Emma Finestone.

Healthcare

SA's cancer incidence forecast to rise by 2030

24 Aug 2022

Source: Freepik.

HIV/AIDS

Child-friendly 4-in-1 ARV treatment launched for SA's children living with HIV

15 Jun 2022

Emergency Medicine

African solutions to African problems: Reframing science innovation

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD 9 Jun 2022