On a recent day, Indira Govender, a doctor in a rural community in northern KwaZulu-Natal, was busy with her weekly session at the local clinic when she witnessed three people breaking down mentally.

South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring ...

Although taxpayer money now funds the bulk of South Africa’s HIV programme, getting to the point where we have the largest HIV treatment programme in the world, would not have been possible without ...

Imagine watching loved ones swept away, land and livestock destroyed, possessions lost within hours. For many, that’s reality ...

Imagine watching loved ones swept away, land and livestock destroyed, possessions lost within hours. For many, that’s reality ...

Researchers say transactional sex will become more common because of a rise in climate change-related droughts and floods. Droughts and floods cause financial hardship, and therefore increase the ...

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In April next year, South Africa plans to start rolling out an anti-HIV jab, taken only twice a year, that could end Aids in the country within 14 to 18 years. But is our public health system equipped ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan asks who in SA should get LEN first. Sign up for our newsletter today. One in ten clinics in South Africa — across 22 health districts in six provinces — could start ...