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Professors Hoosen Coovadia and Salim Abdool Karim, two of SA's foremost HIV researchers, were recently the health department's greatest enemies.

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, Tanya Pampalone explains the NHI’s policy paradox. Sign up for our newsletter today. One of the soldiers in the small army recently spat his message along the busy corridor that ...

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 explains how US President Donald Trump ordered USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down. Sign up for our newsletter today. Pepfar-funded HIV organisations in ...

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 ...

WINDING ROAD: A community health worker delivers ARVs to a patient’s home in the Xhora Mouth Administrative Area, Eastern Cape.

In today’s newsletter, Linda Pretorius asks “who should get what slice of the LEN pie”? Sign up for our newsletter today. What’s the best way to divvy up a shipment of medicine that will cover less ...