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South Africa has become the first African country — and our medicines regulator the third worldwide — to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN). The shot could bring ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan asks who in SA should get LEN first. Sign up for our newsletter today. One in ten clinics in South Africa — across 22 health districts in six provinces — could start ...

Although taxpayer money now funds the bulk of South Africa’s HIV programme, getting to the point where we have the largest HIV treatment programme in the world, would not have been possible without ...