Spotlight Issue 4 is out today!

In-depth, public interest health journalism.

1st December 2017 | Spotlight

In this issue: A profile of Free State MEC for Health Butana Khompela; A guide to making AIDS councils work; TAC on the state of our hospitals; Doctors blow the whistle on orthopaedic nightmare; A special focus section on healthcare in the Eastern Cape; Linda-Gail Bekker, Peter Piot and other experts on the state of the HIV and TB response on WAD 2017; Mark Heywood on state capture and the right to health; The latest TB stats; A close look at who is funding TB research; An inside look at PrEP at tertiary education facilities; and more.

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WHO estimates 20% more TB cases in SA than previously thought

By Marcus Low, October 14, 2020

Posted in: Edition 10: Drug-resistant TB, Latest, TB

Around 20% more people are falling ill with tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa, than previously thought. This emerged from new estimates contained in the 2020 WHO World TB Report launched today.

Tags: featured HIV HIV positive National TB Prevalence Survey TB TB deaths TB detection TB infections TB prevention tuberculosis WHO WHO TB report WHO World TB Report 2020

WHO estimates 20% more TB cases in SA than previously thought

Over 4.7m people in SA placed on new HIV med in four years

By Elri Voigt, July 17, 2023

Posted in: HIV/AIDS, Latest

In what is likely one of the largest treatment rollouts in South African history, well over four million people living with HIV have started taking the antiretroviral dolutegravir since its introduction around four years ago. Now, according to a recent study published in the Lancet medical journal, use of dolutegravir in South Africa is associated with more people staying on treatment and higher rates of viral suppression. Elri Voigt unpacks the study findings and assesses progress in the country’s switch to dolutegravir-based HIV treatment.

Tags: ARV guidelines ARV rollout ARV treatment ARVs Caprisa dolutegravir dolutegravir-based regimens DTG Ezintsha featured HIV HIV treatment National Department of Health NDoH Southern African HIV Clinicians Society The Lancet TLD regimen

Over 4.7m people in SA placed on new HIV med in four years

What we can learn about TB at the autopsy table

By Tiyese Jeranji, April 8, 2024

Posted in: InFocus, Latest, TB, Western Cape

In addition to shedding light on what people actually die of, autopsies can also play an important role in helping us to better understand disease. Tiyese Jeranji unpacks tuberculosis-related autopsy research in the Western Cape and delves into some of the fascinating complexities of this branch of TB research.

Tags: autopsies featured Health Laura Taylor muhammad osman TB TB Research threnesan naidoo virginie rozot

What we can learn about TB at the autopsy table

Dear Nkosi

By Spotlight, July 11, 2016

Posted in: Editorial, Latest, Sections, Spotlight, Spotlight Edition 1

A full version of the special edition of Spotlight will be released during the International AIDS Conference in Durban which starts on 17 July. This is an article which will be published in Spotlight.

Tags: HIV/AIDS Nkosi Johnson SA AIDS Conference 2016

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‘Let’s unite to end TB’ – a community-led approach can help wipe out TB in SA

By Ingrid Schoeman, Sasha Stevenson, Janet Giddy, Renier Coetzee, and Petula Pienaar, March 22, 2024

Posted in: Comment, InFocus, Latest, TB

World TB Day is marked in the same week that South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day. A human rights based approach to TB mirrors a public health approach, argue Ingrid Schoeman, Sasha Stevenson, Janet Giddy, Renier Coetzee, and Petula Pienaar.

Tags: access to healthcare featured healthcare TB World TB Day

‘Let’s unite to end TB’ – a community-led approach can help wipe out TB in SA

Health in 2021: Spotlight’s top 12 questions

By Spotlight Editors, January 13, 2021

Posted in: Latest

While COVID-19 will continue to make headlines for some time, 2021 will also be a critical year for healthcare reforms in South Africa and for various aspects of the country’s HIV and TB response. These are Spotlight’s top 12 healthcare questions for the year.

Tags: 2030 Human Resources for Health (HRH) Strategy CAB LA HIV corruption COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine Department of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize featured Fix the patent laws health budget Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum healthcare workers HIV HIV prevention programme HMI HMI report Medical Schemes amendment bill NHI NHI Bill NSP 2017 – 2022 Patents Act Private health sector reforms Private Healthcare Public Health TB

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