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8 million people living with HIV in SA, according to latest estimates

2 months ago | spotlightnsp.co.za | Tiyese Jeranji |Nthusang Lefafa |Marcus Low |Francois Venter

Around 12.8% of South Africa's population is living with HIV. (Photo: Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Pexels) News & Features31st March 2025 | Marcus Low The number of people living with HIV in South Africa has for the first time reached the eight million mark. Of these, around 6.2 million are on treatment, according to new estimates. The number of people living with HIV in South Africa continues to rise, surpassing eight million in 2024.
Francois Venter | Our HIV response will collapse without US funding - unless we act urgently

Mar 3, 2025 | spotlightnsp.co.za | Marcus Low |Tiyese Jeranji |Biénne Huisman |Francois Venter

Professor Francois Venter is one of the foremost HIV research scientists in South Africa and hails from the Ezintsha Research Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand. (Photo: Supplied) Comment & Analysis4th March 2025 | Francois Venter South Africa faces its worst health crisis in 20 years. Worse than COVID, and one that will overshadow diabetes as a major killer, while pouring petrol on a dwindling TB fire.
Tunisia’s young democracy flounders as its president wins a second term

Oct 23, 2024 | democracyinafrica.org | Serag El Hegazi |Marisa Lourenço |Maxwell Maseko |Francois Venter

There was tension hanging in the air as I walked through Tunisia’s capital city, Tunis, in July, just months before the country’s latest presidential election. The conversations I had in cafes and markets confirmed people’s uncertainty and apprehension about the state of their country. Tunisia was the location of an uprising against corruption, poverty and political repression in 2011 that ousted longtime autocrat Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Namibia’s uneven legal playing field undermines elections

Jul 24, 2024 | t.ly | Marisa Lourenço |Gabrielle Lynch |Francois Venter |Mesrob Vartavarian

Since Namibia became a democracy in 1990, following a protracted battle with then-apartheid South Africa for independence, not a general election has passed without the results being legally challenged by opposition parties. This year is unlikely to be any different, when the country’s seventh parliamentary and presidential polls take place on 27 November.