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UNAids executive director Winnie Byanyima. Image: UNAids on X

Decriminalization – a prerequisite to ending Aids and TB

The same structural failures that sustain the HIV epidemic also sustain tuberculosis

Dying to breathe: Many of the priority areas exceeded South Africa’s national ambient air quality standards,
often in regions with high concentrations of vulnerable people. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

SA’s hotspots for deadly air pollution

The Highveld, Vaal Triangle and Waterberg–Bojanala areas linked to higher rates of respiratory disease and TB

Positive impact: AI can serve as a tireless tutor available 24/7 that adapts to each student’s pace and learning style and could even offer
explanations in their native language. Photo: File

Harnessing AI for equitable access in education, healthcare

It must be noted that the role of AI is not to tell the farmer that their ancestral knowledge is wrong but a tool to enhance that knowledge with information they couldn’t previously access

Four toilets, built in 2013 by the organisation Candice Andisiwe Sehoma founded, are still flushing, although floods of raw sewage flow daily through the streets of Alexandra. (Sean Christie)

Building toilets, fighting TB: Candice Andisiwe Sehoma’s life of activism

From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients

Of the 30 countries the World Health Organisation has identified as having a high burden of TB and HIV co-infections, 22 are in sub-Saharan Africa. Photo: MUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP/Getty Images)

Solutions to TB and HIV benefit all of us, North and South

Diseases don’t respect national borders … governments all over the world need to work together to rein them in

The US freeze in life-saving HIV and Aids programmes has detrimental effects on affected key populations. Reuters

Trump’s cuts show the need to democratise reproductive health funding

Sources that are unrestricted, aligned with South African law and human rights, and without political interference, must be found as an alternative to the US

File photo

Why SA needs to get a grip on diabetes – fast

About 60 000 South Africans die in a year from diseases that are not caused by tuberculosis or HIV before they turn 70, and about a fifth of these are from diabetes

In black and white: Animal behaviour can mirror human nature.
Photo: Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Getty Images

New responses to diseases – and each other

Antagonism and tension are inherent in our being but we can change the conversation

Patients at a public hospital in Gauteng.  Photo Delwyn Verasamy

World Health Day: SA’s public health sector facing crisis amid budget cuts

About 83 out of every 100 people in our country depend on the public sector for their health care

So many on the African continent are affected by TB, which hits the young and vibrant the hardest in our region and in the world. (Photo by NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Africans can solve TB, the disease that haunts us. Here’s how

Africans need to be fully involved in drug discovery and development research for tuberculosis on the continent