Susan Purchase Adolescents are the missing middle falling through the cracks of TB care 5 min 0 25 March 2026
SPOTLIGHT Uncertainty around asymptomatic TB leaving critical gaps in public health response 12 min 0 By Elri Voigt for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT The fight against TB is inseparable from the struggle for human rights 6 min 0 By Renier Coetzee and Ingrid Schoeman for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT TB trends in SA show mixed picture of progress and persistent treatment barriers 4 min 0 By Marcus Low for Spotlight
RENEWED FIGHT Minister Motsoaledi relaunches SA TB Caucus, reaffirms commitment to ending the disease 3 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
HEALTH SOVEREIGNTY Africa can no longer wait for external actors to solve its healthcare challenges 3 min 0 By Olive Shisana
EARLY INTERVENTION OP-ED Undiagnosed childhood hearing loss a silent crisis shaping SA's future generations 3 min 0 By Katijah Khoza-Shangase
EXPLAINER Global Fund cut for HIV, TB programmes poised to hit SA’s health sector 7 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
SPOTLIGHT TB’s tight grip: Why this curable disease is so hard to treat 14 min 0 By Elri Voigt for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT & GROUNDUP These are the children the United States left to die in Mozambique 8 min 17 By Jesse Copelyn for Spotlight and GroundUp
BHEKISISA OP-ED Trump’s HIV funding cuts will also exacerbate diabetes, cervical cancer and depression 7 min 0 By Zano Kunene
SPOTLIGHT Open letter to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi: Please explain the HIV numbers 3 min 0 By Anna Grimsrud and Sibongile Tshabalala-Madhlala
SPOTLIGHT US suspends billions in funding for SA clinical research after new foreign grants policy 6 min 0 By Jesse Copelyn
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED Post-TB lung disease a hidden crisis that affects millions, yet remains ignored 7 min 0 By Chris Bateman for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED South Africa’s HIV programme is collapsing — and our government is absent 6 min 16 By Francois Venter
BHEKISISA South Africa needs R2.82bn to plug the US funding gap in fight against HIV, TB — for now 9 min 0 By Mia Malan
SPOTLIGHT Inside SA Medical Research Council’s race to rescue health research amid US aid cuts 6 min 2 By Catherine Tomlinson for Spotlight
SPOTLIGHT Tongue swabs — where these experimental TB tests might eventually fit in 7 min 0 By Elri Voigt for Spotlight
GROUNDUP USAID cuts force South African HIV and TB services into business rescue, staff fight for salaries 4 min 1 By Tania Broughton
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED New study reveals casual contact drives nearly half of TB transmission in social settings 7 min 0 By Biénne Huisman for Spotlight
