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South Africa has a twice-yearly HIV prevention jab that’s almost 100% effective. But experience with HIV prevention pills ...

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While discoveries like these rarely make the news, it happens all the time. We asked leading forensic pathologist Shakeera Holland what her team found after studying remains at the Diepkloof Forensic ...

The once-every-six-month HIV prevention injection, lenacapavir — in short known as LEN — holds the promise to help end Aids in Africa. South Africa started to roll out the jab on 5 June 2026. We’ve ...

In today’s newsletter, Ida Jooste discusses what the Global Fund phase-out means for HIV programmes in South Africa. Sign up for our newsletter today. South Africa has less than eight years before one ...

Medical school didn’t prepare Sarah Stein for the cold, matter-of-fact way her colleagues dealt with death. When she asked one of the doctors she worked with how they could move on so quickly after a ...

In the eight years since the Gauteng health department ended its contract with a private psychiatric hospital group, Life Esidimeni, to look after long-term state mental health patients, a tragedy of ...

In 2021, clinics had a 20% vacancy rate for doctor positions and 14% of doctor posts were empty in hospitals too. (Envato Elements) South Africa is producing more doctors than what the country’s under ...