The United Nations Population Fund is the world’s largest provider of contraception to poor countries. The UK’s cuts to the agency are almost three times more severe than anything imposed…
File photo: Self magazine Anyone 60 years or older this year can now register to get a Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa. Here's how. The South African health department is…
Women living with HIV in Namibia and South Africa have reported being forcibly sterilised after healthcare workers discovered that they were HIV positive. But how does forced sterilisation happen? One…
Women living with HIV have reported being forcibly sterilised in at least three countries around the world, including South Africa and Namibia. Matthew Henry, Burst Two HIV-positive Namibian women who…
Interim results show that Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine was 85% effective in preventing severe Covid-19 no matter what the variant. Photo credit: Biovac Institute Covid-19 vaccines made by pharmaceutical…
Executive director of the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit (VIDA) at Wits University Shabir Madhi Photo: Garret Barnwell What you need to know about the numbers behind one…
A global shift in policy could be a lifesaver as nations on the continent struggle with the rising costs of Covid-19, both in terms of lives and economies. The majority…
Photo: Heather Hazzan / SELF Magazine Pfizer says it can't supply South African healthcare workers with its COVID-19 vaccine until it fulfils existing commitments to wealthier countries who pre-ordered vaccines.…
Antiretrovirals (ARVs) don’t just treat HIV, the medication can also prevent people from contracting the virus. Today, a two-in-one combination pill of the ARVs tenofovir and emtricitabine has been shown…
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