In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan tells us why the US isn’t giving SA LEN. Sign up for our newsletter today. By shutting South Africa out of its overseas funding for the roll-out of the revolutionary ...

In today’s newsletter, our Health Beat team explores ageing with HIV and Mia Malan unpacks SA’s aim to make its own LEN. Sign up for our newsletter today. The South African government is adamant that ...

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.

The signing of the National Health Insurance Bill on Wednesday doesn’t necessarily guarantee that it will become law, especially if the ANC loses power. A law expert says a new government may decide ...

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 ...

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 ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan gives us the latest updates on lenacapavir, directly from UNGA 80 in New York. Sign up for our newsletter today. That price is about the same as what it costs to stop ...

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, ...

South Africa just accepted funding for the anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir. In today’s newsletter, she explains why the offer comes with a snag. Sign up for our newsletter today. South Africa has accepted ...

In today’s newsletter, Ida Jooste and Tanya Pampalone tells us how RFK Jr is now SA’s problem too. Sign up for our newsletter today. They used to call it the strangling angel. The grey membrane would ...