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How do we make new #HIVPrevention options work in real life? @WitsRHI’s #LEN4PrEP study is exploring nurse training, mentorship and patient-centred delivery of long-acting lenacapavir. “People want options that fit into their lives.” Prof Saiqa Mullick. bit.ly/nurses-learn-lenacapa…
GETTING TO GRIPS WITH LEN | After 26 years in nursing, Sister Keitumetse Senokwane still had something new to learn. The six-monthly HIV-prevention jab, lenacapavir, often referred to as just LEN, presented a unique challenge.
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FROZEN IN FEAR | Health systems experts argue that structural changes won’t save a health system that is scared stiff. The most urgent task, they say, is to help frontline doctors and nurses reimagine what is possible, reports @vandykjoan.
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GETTING TO GRIPS WITH LEN | After 26 years in nursing, Sister Keitumetse Senokwane still had something new to learn. The six-monthly HIV-prevention jab, lenacapavir, often referred to as just LEN, presented a unique challenge.
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SCRAMBLING FOR WORK | South Africa has a healthcare worker crisis. Those in power need to face it and think bigger about how to address it. We have more details in our newsletter: tinyurl.com/2fjrhzxr
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PALLIATIVE CARE IN SA | SA is drafting a new policy document on palliative care services. Motlalentoa Motsoane argues that making people’s lives better will depend on details like accurate costing, sufficient funding, and effective referral systems.
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Accountability is sadly lacking. KZN has one of the biggest provincial health budgets. Our auditing colleagues need to assist us in reviewing the expenditure reports. Where is the money going? KZN is in a deep crisis, and it is human-made.
JOBLESS DOCTORS | They are qualified, ready, and willing to serve their communities. But scores of these doctors in KwaZulu-Natal, are becoming increasingly desperate because of a lack of posts in government hospitals and clinics.
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JOBLESS DOCTORS | They are qualified, ready, and willing to serve their communities. But scores of these doctors in KwaZulu-Natal, are becoming increasingly desperate because of a lack of posts in government hospitals and clinics.
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SA'S CANCER STORY | @BienneHuisman hears the stories of people from vast corners of inland South Africa, and beyond, who travelled to Bloemfontein for specialist medical attention to treat their cancer.
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🇿🇦 How can #SouthAfrica make #HIV treatment simpler, more accessible & better suited to people's needs?
In a recent @SpotlightNSP article, the IAS's Anna Grimsrud & Lynne Wilkinson outline three ways to improve HIV treatment delivery & strengthen person-centred care.
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ICYMI | @elna_s explore the complexities of conducting clinical trials involving babies, and why those complexities are worth grappling with.
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Progress in the fight against #CervicalCancer. @WitsRHI Professor Helen Rees highlighted South Africa’s #HPVVaccination progress: approximately 3.6 million girls vaccinated since 2014, with coverage at 78%.#WitsRHI #HPV #CervicalCancerElimination
SA CANCER STORY | Our massive HPV vaccination campaign is set to slash cervical cancer rates in the coming decades. @BienneHuisman unpacks the details in part 3 of a Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer in South Africa.
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FOR BETTER TB CARE | Unless we see more proactive leadership from the likes of the National Department of Health, the management of TB between the private and public sector seems set to remain a messy affair: tinyurl.com/ye24p22v
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JUST PUBLISHED | In South Africa, tuberculosis is mainly diagnosed and treated in the public healthcare system. On paper, the private sector should also be able to deal with it, but in reality, TB care in this sector is often fragmented and confusing.
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🚨The third quarter edition of @TBAC_sa's 2026 newsletter is out!
Catch up on findings from TBAC’s upcoming report on South Africa’s TB testing campaign, stories from #TB survivors through our #SITSHELE #SPIEG campaign, as well as new approaches to #TB testing, including research into tongue swabs as a possible screening tool.
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HIV TREATMENT | South Africa already has much of the policy and evidence it needs to simplify HIV treatment. Three changes should now be prioritised, argue Dr Anna Grimsrud and Lynne Wilkinson. @iasociety
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SA CANCER STORY | Our massive HPV vaccination campaign is set to slash cervical cancer rates in the coming decades. @BienneHuisman unpacks the details in part 3 of a Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer in South Africa.
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ICYMI | As South Africa’s antiretroviral rollout gathered pace after AIDS denialism ended, the HIV & TB Healthcare Worker Hotline supported healthcare professionals for 18 years. Now, the service has been suspended.
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INSIDE THE BOX | Pharmaceutical sciences expert Dr Andy Gray has been writing regular columns for Spotlight examining how South Africa's medicines system works and where the gaps are. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3ehda5m9
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ICYMI | Precious Matsoso's advice for navigating difficult conversations is refreshingly human: stay calm, be patient and keep working towards understanding. Sometimes, she says, the best way to ease the tension is simply to break into song.
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DID YOU KNOW | South African health and medicines law does not clearly define what is meant by a “medicines shortage”. Dr Andy Gray zooms in on how governments can monitor and plan for medicine shortages.
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