JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's health minister on Tuesday called lenacapavir, the first twice-yearly HIV prevention jab in the world, a “groundbreaking” tool to fight the disease, but warned initial ...

(Bloomberg) -- The US has permanently stopped funding thousands of health-care programs in Africa, with notifications to affected organizations arriving without warning and causing a cascade of chaos.

As the world faces a historic HIV funding crisis that threatens to reverse decades of progress, South Africa is emerging as a beacon of commitment, funding 77 percent of its national HIV response and ...

PRETORIA, May 15 (Reuters) - South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday that the government had not secured any new funding yet for HIV after the U.S. cut aid, and denied reports ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Demonstrators protest against cuts to American foreign aid spending, including USAID and the PEPFAR program to combat ...

The U.S. government's freeze on foreign aid, including funding to fight HIV and AIDS in Africa, has made Simon Bwanya, a Zimbabwean living with HIV, anxious and uncertain. He is worried that after the ...

When the late Mbongeni Ngema released his hauntingly emotional song Ingculaza, he captured the anguish of a nation that had just triumphed against the brutality of apartheid, only to be confronted by ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID has put more than 8,000 health workers in South Africa’s national HIV program out of work, the country’s health minister said ...

The US government paused all foreign assistance in January 2025. This abrupt decision affected the delivery of life-saving HIV medicines and the provision of HIV prevention services to millions of ...

NAIROBI, June 7 (UNHCR) - Refugees in camps in Africa have made "dramatic" strides in changing their behaviour to reduce the risk of contracting and spreading HIV, the virus that causes the deadly ...