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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

Parliament heard the Special Investigating Unit’s head advocate last week testify about medico-legal fraud. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Medical Law

SIU takes aim at ballooning dodgy medical litigation that is costing the government billions

Sandiso Phaliso 13 Sep 2024

HIV/AIDS

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

Linda-Gail Bekker 5 Jul 2024

Nomathamsanqa Rweqana has passed away. Source: SABC.

Radio & Audio

Umhlobo Wenene mourns the passing of two radio legends

8 Feb 2024

HIV/AIDS

Decline in SA's HIV prevalence, survey shows

29 Nov 2023

Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his Lottery connection

Corporate & Commercial Law

Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his Lottery connection

Tania Broughton 12 Sep 2023

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Criminal Law

Actress Terry Pheto's house linked to Lotteries Commission corruption to be auctioned

2 Mar 2023

HIV/AIDS

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

Jessica Haberer 28 Nov 2022

Gender equality: Implementation of SDG 5 not a simple matter

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Gender equality: Implementation of SDG 5 not a simple matter

Lia Labuschagne, Issued by SAICA 27 Aug 2021

Banning African films like Rafiki and Inxeba doesn't diminish their influence

Film

Banning African films like Rafiki and Inxeba doesn't diminish their influence

Gibson Ncube 23 Jun 2021

False Bay TVET College rolls out Peer-to-Peer Educators Programme with great success

Higher Education

False Bay TVET College rolls out Peer-to-Peer Educators Programme with great success

Issued by False Bay College 18 Jun 2021

A healthcare worker in a protective suit is seen at a quarantine and isolation centre in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Covid-19

How Covid-19 threatens efforts to contain HIV/Aids in South Africa

Nesri Padayatchi & Kogie Naidoo 21 Jul 2020

VWSA completes and hands over phase one of Covid-19 facility

Dealers

VWSA completes and hands over phase one of Covid-19 facility

25 Jun 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

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

Gwinyai Masukume & Witness Mapanga 29 Jan 2020

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

HIV/AIDS

Communities can make - or break - strategies to curb HIV

2 Dec 2019

New Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize (David Harrison)

Public Health

Politics & power: Why Zweli Mkhize may be a new dawn for health in SA - or not?

Mia Malan & Laura Lopez Gonzalez 31 May 2019

#CNILux: The creative cultural legacy of MaXhosa by Laduma

Fashion & Homeware

#CNILux: The creative cultural legacy of MaXhosa by Laduma

Lauren Hartzenberg 16 Apr 2019

Women in Malawi visit clinics many more times in their lives than men. Shutterstock

Women's Health

Malawi's health system puts women first. This isn't always a good thing

Kathryn Dovel, Morna Cornell, Sara Yeatman & Steph 20 Feb 2019

STIs are a serious health threat. Shutterstock

Public Health

Preventing sexually transmitted infections: why South Africa isn't winning

Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha 15 Feb 2019

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

Professor Ian Sanne, head and principal investigator at the Clinical HIV Research Unit (CHRU)

HIV/AIDS

SA leads the way in Aids research and treatment

22 May 2018

SU's second successful penis transplant

Surgical Procedures

SU's second successful penis transplant

Nicci Botha 22 May 2017

Kagiso Modupe meets a circumcision doctor

Public Health

Over 5,000 men respond to #ZwakalaSkeem medical circumcision campaign

10 May 2017

What will it take to end Aids by 2030?

HIV/AIDS

What will it take to end Aids by 2030?

Mia Malan 5 Jan 2017

Could we mass-produce HIV immunity?

HIV/AIDS

Could we mass-produce HIV immunity?

Penny Moore, Lynne Morris & Nono Mkhize 28 Nov 2016

Apex Awards 2016 - Winners of the 'work that worked' announced

Advertising

Apex Awards 2016 - Winners of the 'work that worked' announced

Issued by Association for Communication and Advertising 11 Jul 2016

Joe Public United leads the way in creative effectivity

Advertising

Joe Public United leads the way in creative effectivity

Issued by Joe Public 11 Jul 2016

APEX Awards 2016 - Brothers for Life Medical Male Circumcision Drive

Advertising

APEX Awards 2016 - Brothers for Life Medical Male Circumcision Drive

8 Jul 2016

#APEX2016 judges

Advertising

#APEX2016: All the winners!

8 Jul 2016

Net closes in on illegal initiation schools

Education

Net closes in on illegal initiation schools

7 Jul 2016

#CannesLions2016: Innovation Lions winners!

Cannes Lions

#CannesLions2016: Innovation Lions winners!

22 Jun 2016

#CannesLions2016: Innovation Lions shortlist announced

Cannes Lions

#CannesLions2016: Innovation Lions shortlist announced

17 Jun 2016

HIV/AIDS

Circumcision on the rise

7 Jun 2016

Vaginal ring to prevent HIV on the cards

HIV/AIDS

Vaginal ring to prevent HIV on the cards

16 Mar 2016

Research

[TrendTalk] 2015 was a hairy year

Louise Marsland 12 Jan 2016

Surgical Procedures

JPS Africa introduces new medical procedures to SA

17 Dec 2015

JPS Africa launches as independent NPO

NPO

JPS Africa launches as independent NPO

9 Dec 2015

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Telecoms & Networks

Young garage developers in the running to start own businesses

7 Dec 2015

South Africa has excelled in treating HIV - prevention remains a disaster

Health & Social Welfare

South Africa has excelled in treating HIV - prevention remains a disaster

Willem Venter and Sinead Delany-Moretlwe 1 Dec 2015

Legislation & Regulation

'By word of mouth' registration for traditional healers may clash with NHA

Neil Kirby 9 Nov 2015

Clinic-in-a-Box wins MyWorld of Tomorrow innovation award

Public Health

Clinic-in-a-Box wins MyWorld of Tomorrow innovation award

26 Oct 2015

One day only - Helen Joseph Hospital offers free women's service

Women's Health

One day only - Helen Joseph Hospital offers free women's service

27 Aug 2015

Male circumcision could reduce HIV, increase economic growth

HIV/AIDS

Male circumcision could reduce HIV, increase economic growth

14 Aug 2015

HPV as common in men as women

Infectious Diseases

HPV as common in men as women

28 Jul 2015

PrePex price reduction for Africa a great prospect

Surgical Equipment & Products

PrePex price reduction for Africa a great prospect

28 May 2015

HIV infections decline over last decade

HIV/AIDS

HIV infections decline over last decade

24 Apr 2015