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HIV services must be comprehensive to ensure that people take their medication as prescribed and avoid onward transmission of the virus. Even before the advent of COVID-19, donors had begun to exit HIV programmes with increasing frequency.

To be effective, vaccine formulas need to cover all emergent strains. But there are still plenty of unknowns.

To be effective, vaccine formulas need to cover all emergent strains. But there are still plenty of unknowns.

It is urgent and overdue to implement PrEP in pregnancy and during breastfeeding. Failure to do so allows ongoing avoidable HIV infection among women in South Africa and their infants.

It is urgent and overdue to implement PrEP in pregnancy and during breastfeeding. Failure to do so allows ongoing avoidable HIV infection among women in South Africa and their infants.

Stigma and criminalisation of same-sex relationships makes it difficult for transgender women and men who have sex with men to seek preventive services. This compounds their risk for HIV infection.

Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 accounted for 25% of new infections, while making up only 10% of the population.