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 ...

One in ten clinics in South Africa — across 22 health districts in six provinces — will start to hand out a twice-a-year anti ...

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 ...

Young women are contracting HIV faster than anyone else in South Africa, with about four out of every 10 new infections coming from just this group, even though they make up only about 8% of the total ...

Obesity is surging in South Africa. What’s fuelling this epidemic and how does it contribute to diabetes and heart disease, SA’s top killers?

Hetero and Dr Reddy’s — will be funded by the Gates Foundation and Unitaid, respectively, to produce and sell the twice-a-year anti-HIV shot around R692 per person per year. We break down the ...

In July 2025, several South African news outlets resurfaced a 2020 report that looked at whether common HIV medications, known as antiretrovirals or ARVs, were present in local water sources and what ...

In today’s newsletter, Zano Kunene introduces us to influencers who help prop up Big Tobacco. Sign up for our newsletter today. Usually South African influencer Honour Zuma, known as Cyan Boujee, ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan tells us more about how SA will roll out LEN. Sign up for our newsletter today. The health department plans to make the twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, ...