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Nompilo Mdluli — in brown jacket — and Simphiwe Matsebula — in black jersey are worried that the Pepfar pause on HIV services in eSwatini could negatively affect the lives of people living with HIV especially daily access to antiretroviral treatment which helps keep their virus under control.

People living with HIV in fear as impact of donor funding cuts begin to show in eSwatini

HIV prevention services have been heavily affected by the pause on the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids in the country, with remote mobile clinics that served hard-to-reach people now closed

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi .(Alet Pretorius/Foto24/Gallo Images)

HIV programmes will not collapse after Trump funding cuts, Motsoaledi says

The health minister said local investment and support from other global partners would keep the country’s treatment efforts going

  • Aarti Bhana
3 min read
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers the 2025 Budget. Photo: Jeffrey Abrahams/Gallo Images

Government must commit to allocating funds for healthcare, health experts say

The US cutting aid to South Africa has caused large job losses at a number of treatment centre

  • Aarti Bhana
7 min read