Women have had the right to choose to end their pregnancies for 30 years in SA — and government facilities that offer the service do it for free. Here’s what is (still) driving so many of them to ...

Baby Savers South Africa is taking the government to court over the ban on baby boxes in Gauteng. Are they a harmful tool ...

In today’s newsletter, Zano Kunene discusses how Hlokomela Clinic is making sure patients can still get tested and treated for HIV in spite of US global funding cuts. Sign up for our newsletter today.

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A modelling study shows the six-monthly anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, could end Aids in SA by 2032 — but only if between two and four million HIV-negative people in the country would need to use the jab ...

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 ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan discusses the need for renewed HIV activism as Pepfar cuts threaten lives. Sign up for our newsletter now. “So the US funding cuts happened, and I was looking for the ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan unpacks how SA could lose 70% of its research capacity if it loses all of its NIH funding. Sign up for our newsletter today. R6.65-billion — or $350-million. That’s ...

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 ...

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