Governance

This webinar, the first in a series on the topic of COVID-19 and HIV, is organized by the International AIDS Society (IAS) and will be held on Friday, April 3, from 10 - 11:30 am SAST. The webinar is openly recommended to HIV professionals, government representatives working in the field of HIV, public health specialists, programme managers, service providers, civil society representatives and members of organizations supporting key and vulnerable populations.

The South African Health Review 2019 analyses and assesses progress and challenges in key areas of the health system, and proposes recommendations for improvement.

The 14th edition of South Africa's District Health Barometer consolidates information on a wide range of health services across the country’s 52 health districts and has become an important planning and management resource for health service providers, managers, researchers and policy-makers.

This program brief, "Achieving and Sustaining HIV Epidemic Control with Better Health Workforce Data: Use of National Health Workforce Accounts to Achieve 95-95-95 Targets", provides an overview of National Health Workforce Accounts and illustrates opportunities for PEPFAR and implementing partners to use the platform for better decision-making in order to optimize their investments.

By adapting services to client needs, differentiated antiretroviral therapy (DART) has the potential to use resources more efficiently. We conducted a systematic review assessing the cost of DART in sub-Saharan Africa compared with the standard of care.

Using the Payback Framework for research utilization, we assessed the impact of USAID's implementation science investment on a subset of studies examining HIV prevention, care, and treatment.

The pace of progress in reducing new HIV infections, increasing access to treatment and ending AIDS-related deaths is slowing down according to a new report released by UNAIDS. Communities at the Centre shows a mixed picture with some countries making impressive gains while others are experiencing rises in new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths. It also shows how boosting community support can help to jumpstart progress.  

Men who have sex with men in Africa are more likely to test for HIV than other African men, but are significantly less likely to be on treatment or virally suppressed.