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South Africa’s HPV vaccination programme has by all accounts been a resounding success over the past decade, likely helping to prevent many cases of cervical cancer. But the programme has suffered major setbacks due to Covid-related disruptions. In addition to getting it back on track, some arg...

Free State pupils started the 2023 academic year without any hitches, despite damage and theft at several schools.



R300 000 worth of learning and teaching materials were burnt when a school was petrol-bombed in Bloemfontein, Free State.

In 2014, South Africa launched an HPV vaccination campaign targeting nine-year-old public schoolchildren in Grade 4. It involves delivering two doses of vaccine six months apart. Spotlight finds out how the campaign is going and what recent real-world HPV vaccine effectiveness data from the Uni...

A recent study published in The Lancet medical journal found that women living with HIV made up an estimated 63.4% of new cervical cancer cases in South Africa in 2018 – a dramatically higher percentage than the global level of around 6%. The study also found that women living with HIV on average have a sixfold higher risk of developing cervical cancer than women who are not living with HIV. “In absolute terms,” the authors wrote, “most women with cervical cancer living with HIV were fr...