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My experience getting the new HIV prevention jab, lenacapavir
Keletso Mkhwanazi
While there are key populations who are at a higher risk of acquiring HIV, experts say they are not the only targets, and anyone is eligible to receive LEN.
Raw sewage in Limpopo village raises fears of disease and water contamination
Judas Sekwela
The sewage has polluted the Senwamokgope River, leaving residents without a reliable water source.
Mangaung residents demand action over sewer spills
Molefi Sompane
According to resident residents, the sewer spillage is getting worse and flooding Freedom Square Township.
Birth control shortages leave women in NW and GP fearing unplanned pregnancies
Kagiso Keipopele
Women in parts of Gauteng have made similar complaints, saying they have experienced shortages of injectables and the implant.
We are managing HIV with selective lenacapavir roll-out, not ending it
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Lenacapavir promised to change the course of the epidemic, but a limited, geographically selective rollout exposes a harder reality: who gets protected, who is left behind, and whether this is progress or containment. What is presented as pragmatism is, in fact, a set of political choices about access, timing, and scale
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Different clinics, different readiness. Inside the first week of Gauteng’s lenacapavir rollout
Orange Farm taxi rank clinic brings health services closer to where men are
The clinic was established following discussions between the Orange Farm United Taxi Association and the City of Johannesburg following concerns of HIV and TB among taxi drivers.
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