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3 weeks 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.
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1 month ago | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Elna Schutz |Elna Schütz |Biénne Huisman |Nthusang Lefafa |Elri Voigt
The Networking HIV and AIDS Community of Southern Africa which relied on USAID money to fund one of their projects. (Supplied: NACOSA/Anotherlove Productions) News & Features3rd March 2025 | Jesse Copelyn South Africa’s public health system is in turmoil after the widespread cancellation of USAID funding agreements. Among others, a USAID-funded project that helped to keep orphaned children on their HIV medication was forced to close.
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1 month ago | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Nthusang Lefafa |Tiyese Jeranji |Catherine Tomlinson |Ufrieda Ho
Findings from the BAMMISHO project will inform strategies to address the challenges of mining and migration, fostering sustainable solutions for communities to thrive. (File photo: SAPRIN) News & Features27th February 2025 | Nthusang Lefafa A new health research hub brings hope of improving health services in the Rustenburg Valley in the North West Province.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Nthusang Lefafa |Elri Voigt |Adele Baleta |Jesse Copelyn
The NHI Act states that the first phase of the scheme will last from 2023 to 2026. (Photo: Rosetta Msimango/Spotlight) News & Features8th October 2024 | Jesse Copelyn As health department officials move to set up National Health Insurance’s basic structures, including its board, several experts say the scheme remains a pipe-dream, doomed to the same fate as Gauteng’s aborted e-tolls project.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Biénne Huisman |Elri Voigt |Siyabonga Kamnqa |Nthusang Lefafa
A lack of education and awareness around cleft lip and palate makes the lives of impacted people more difficult. (Photo: Jurien Huggins/Unsplash) Comment & Analysis13th September 2024 | Kholofelo Mphahlele The ongoing psychological, functional, and aesthetic challenges experienced by people with cleft lip and palate underscore the need for an individualised, lifelong, and multidisciplinary approach to managing the condition, argues Kholofelo Mphahlele.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
news24.com | Nthusang Lefafa
Despite some improvement over the past three years, the North West continues to experience medicine shortages. Commonly reported stockouts at a clinic level include HIV and TB medicines, pain medicines, contraceptives and vaccines. The North West Department of Health says incidents of medicine shortages are isolated and often quickly addressed. Some people in need of HIV or tuberculosis (TB) medicines are sent home empty-handed after visiting clinics in the North West.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Nthusang Lefafa
Despite some improvement over the past three years, the North West province continues to experience medicine shortages, according to a survey by a community clinic monitoring initiative. We unpack the latest findings and ask why shortages persist in the province. Some people in need of HIV or tuberculosis (TB) medicines were sent home empty handed after visiting clinics in the North West.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Nthusang Lefafa
SPOTLIGHT Sello Lehari is the newly appointed MEC for health in North West. Critics have doubts about his deployment while healthcare unions are ready with several items for his to-do list. In recent years the North West Department of Health has struggled with a variety of challenges, including poor infrastructure, shortages of healthcare workers and medicine stockouts at its facilities. It has also been involved in several high-profile cases of alleged corruption.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
news24.com | Nthusang Lefafa
Sello Lehari is the new Health MEC in the North West. He promised to provide hands-on leadership and to prioritise the implementation of the NHI. Critics have doubts about the new MEC's deployment - and unions have several items for his to-do list. In recent years, the North West health department has struggled with a variety of challenges, including poor infrastructure, a shortage of healthcare workers, and medicine stockouts at its facilities.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Mbali Baduza |Matshidiso Lencoasa |Biénne Huisman |Nthusang Lefafa
As far as Spotlight has been able to establish, none of South Africa's nine health MECS are qualified health professionals. News & Features4th July 2024 | Elri Voigt Following South Africa’s 2024 national and provincial elections, the decisions about the top health jobs in the country’s nine provinces have now all been made. Elri Voigt rounds up the appointments.
