After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities ...

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The health department says the problems with placements are overstated but experts wonder if provincial budgets are coping with rising costs.

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In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explain why HIV scientists and government are once again pitted against each other. Sign up for our newsletter today. In the leafy office park not far from Charlotte ...

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On Saturday, the US state department issued details of who qualifies for a limited waiver during the Trump administration’s 90-day pause of foreign aid. The freeze has resulted in the temporary close ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how the twice-yearly HIV prevention jab, lenacapavir, will be rolled out with or without the US. Sign up for our newsletter today. The Global Fund for HIV, TB ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan says South Africa needs R2.82-billion to plug the US funding gap. Sign up for our newsletter today. The national health department is convinced that all US government ...