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How the health department will deal with Pepfar’s near collapse

Until recently, the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief funded nonprofits in South Africa to help provincial health departments test people for HIV and put them on treatment

  • Umamah Bakharia
10 min read
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. (File photo)

Western Cape has lowest HIV prevalence in SA, but youth infections are rising

The HSRC also found that male circumcision rates had declined in the province, dropping from 52% in 2017 to 50.9% in 2022

  • Des Erasmus
5 min read