AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs

[spotlight] A Supreme Court of Appeal ruling in October 2025 cleared the way for specially trained and permitted pharmacists to dispense antiretroviral medicines without a doctor's script. Seven months later, no pharmacists are yet providing these services. Spotlight explores the reasons for the delay.

[New Times] For Mukamana (not her real name), a 62-year-old woman living with both HIV and diabetes, frequent hospital visits once consumed her time, energy and limited income.

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to launch the roll out of the lifesaving HIV prevention injectable medicine, Lenacapavir, later this week.

[spotlight] HIV treatment has been improved and simplified significantly over the years yet a small fraction of people living with HIV still take complex multi-pill regimens. Spotlight reports on a new combination pill that could make life easier for some in this group. But as two leading experts point out, the development comes against a backdrop where the traditional categoris...

[The Conversation Africa] The first shipment of Lenacapavir, a long-acting injectable that prevents HIV with two shots a year, arrived in South Africa from the United States in early April 2026. Clinical trials showed close to 100% efficacy. The rollout, expected to begin in June 2026, prioritises adolescent girls and young women, pregnant and breastfeeding women, transgender pe...