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The virus can be brought under control. But it’s complicated

The virus can be brought under control, but it’s complicated | Middle East & Africa

The virus can be brought under control, but it’s complicated | Middle East & Africa

A 'Prevention Revolution' Offers Hope in the World’s Largest HIV Epidemic. New forms of PrEP to prevent HIV, like injectable CAB-LA, are coming. Public health officials hope they’ll help South Africa’s young women, one of the most impacted groups in the world, avoid the...

New forms of PrEP to prevent HIV, like injectable CAB-LA, are coming. Public health officials hope they’ll help South Africa’s young women, one of the most impacted groups in the world, avoid the virus.

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) elected new leadership at its recently held seventh national congress. Thabo Molelekwa attended the congress and asked TAC leaders about the organisation’s focus in 2022 and beyond.

The government is sitting with 10 million doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines, but with only about 10,000 being administered weekly, the rest will have to be destroyed come October. The government has 10m Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses, but with only about 10,000 being administered weekly, the res...

The KwaZulu-Natal government aims to test about 3.2 million people living in the province for HIV in this financial year. On World AIDS Day 2020 (1 December), Premier Sihle Zikalala said so far they had tested only 60.8% or 1.9 million people in the province because of lockdown restrictions that hampered testing efforts. But Zikalala, who addressed a crowd in Manguzi in the Umkhanyakude District, has big plans to get the HIV programme back on track. “This is also the moment for us to seize th...