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2 months ago | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Amy Green |Tiyese Jeranji |Marcus Low |Yogan Pillay
Health research in South Africa is facing an unprecedented crisis due to the ongoing termination of funding from the United States government. (Photo: CDC/Unsplash) News & Features15th April 2025 | Catherine Tomlinson Health research in South Africa has been plunged into crisis with the abrupt termination of several large research grants from the US, with more grant terminations expected in the coming days and weeks.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Ufrieda Ho |Amy Green |Elri Voigt |Laura Owings
South Africa’s HIV testing programme has been a huge success over the last decade, largely due to the use of rapid tests. (File photo: Unicef) Comment & Analysis28th November 2024 | Salim S.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Ufrieda Ho |Amy Green |Warren Potter |Jesse Copelyn
Researchers around the world are working hard to find a viable cure for the roughly 40 million people on the planet living with HIV. (Photo: This Is Engineering/Pexels) News & Features12th November 2024 | Elri Voigt Highly effective treatments for HIV have existed since the mid-1990s. But while these treatments keep people healthy, we do not yet have a safe and scalable way to completely rid the body of the virus.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Luvuyo Mehlwana |Amy Green |Biénne Huisman |Laura Gonzalez |Laura González
South Africa has some of the highest TB and DR-TB incidence rates in the world. (Photo: Canva rework by Spotlight) Comment & Analysis30th August 2024 | Fatima Hassan and Leena Menghaney A Competition Commission probe recently resulted in a patent on an important tuberculosis medicine being dropped in South Africa.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Biénne Huisman |Amy Green |Aneesa Adams |Jesse Copelyn
Sister Sandra Bryant blows bubbles inside her clinic room at Chinn's Corner Pharmacy in Cape Town. (Photo: Biénne Huisman/Spotlight) News & Features21st August 2024 | Biénne Huisman Sister Sandra Bryant runs her clinic in a lilac painted room, where glitter cream and a disco ball does not seem out of place next to scissors, syringes, and needles.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Biénne Huisman |Amy Green |Khanyisa Mapipa |Salomé Meyer
Lenacapavir is in a relatively new class of antiretroviral medicines which interferes with the protein shell that protects HIV’s genetic material and the enzymes it needs for viral replication. (Photo: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay) News & Features1st July 2024 | Thabo Molelekwa and Marcus Low An HIV prevention injection that provides six months of protection per shot has been shown to be highly effective in a pivotal trial largely conducted in South Africa.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Amy Green |Daniel Steyn |Biénne Huisman |Marcus Low
Anyone who breathes can get sick with TB since it is caused by bacteria that spreads in the air. (Photo: @TAC/Twitter) News & Features6th June 2024 | Tiyese Jeranji Besides preventing illness and death, tuberculosis prevention therapy is estimated to be highly cost effective. Yet, uptake of the medication is not what it could be in South Africa.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Thabo Molelekwa |Rene Sparks |René Sparks |Amy Green |Sue Segar
Zithulele Hospital in Mqanduli, a rural part of OR Tambo District in the Eastern Cape, is a 146-bed public health facility that serves about 130 000 people. (Photo: Black Star/Spotlight News & Features5th June 2024 | Sue Segar A senior doctor who have worked at Zithulele Hospital in the Eastern Cape for close to a decade has been instructed to report to the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Mthatha. Some Zithulele hospital staff and community members protested the move.
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May 27, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Jesse Copelyn |Amy Green |Sue Segar |Marcus Low
Public health facilities in South Africa are heavily understaffed. (Photo: NCI/Unsplash) Comment & Analysis27th May 2024 | Jesse Copelyn Several political parties have pledged to plug shortages of healthcare staff at government hospitals and clinics by training more health workers. They’re right to be concerned with understaffing, but are they putting the right solutions on the table? Jesse Copelyn investigates.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Amy Green |Marcus Low |Catherine Tomlinson |Priashni Subrayen
Gauteng MEC for Health & Wellness Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko. (@NkomoNomantu/Twitter) Comment & Analysis24th April 2024 | Khanyisa Mapipa, Salomé Meyer and Ngqabutho Mpofu , Gauteng Treasury ringfenced R784 million for the outsourcing of radiation oncology services – yet a full year later and no service provider has been appointed while over 3 000 cancer patients wait for treatment.
