At the United Nations General Assembly high-level meeting in New York next week, South Africa is expected to join other ...

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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, Ida Jooste and Tanya Pampalone explain how research around the presence of ARVs in our water sources got misinterpreted. Sign up for our newsletter today. When a research report ...

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Sbusiso Leope, better known as DJ Sbu, is part of a social media campaign that’s been pushing back on parts of the tobacco ...

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If the government is serious about building trust in the health sector, it must start by fixing the way the National Health ...