🌍🇿🇦 At the 12th SA AIDS Conference, Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Joe Phaahla, expressed gratitude to the Global Fund and partners for selecting South Africa as one of the early adopters of Lenacapavir as a new PrEP choice. 🙌

#SAAIDS2025 #HealthForAll #EndHIV #PrEP #BetterHealthcare #CloseTheGap

Global Health Watch: SCOTUS decision keeps foreign aid frozen, US FY26 budget updates, Global Fund’s new report and shifting focus This week Global Health Watch covers major developments from a Supreme Court decision stalling foreign aid disbursements (again), to the US House’s fiscal year (FY26) budget drafts, and the Global Fun...

📖 New issue of #GlobalHealthWatch is out! It covers new developments from a SCOTUS decision stalling #foreignaid disbursements, the US House’s FY26 budget drafts, a new #GlobalFund report & shifting focus and #SAAIDS2025.

Read: avac.org/blog/global-...

This week at #SAAIDS2025 in Johannesburg, our Funding and Partnerships Lead, Mary Edwards connected with inspiring leaders who are driving change.

This pivotal moment in the #HIV response demands bold choices and urgent action!

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At #SAAIDS2025, apha.org.za led a packed discussion on overcoming the hurdles to getting #HIV prevention to those who need it most, including key populations. “Prevention only works when programs meet people where they are, ” said AVAC’s Mitchell Warren.

In the #SAAIDS2025 Advocates’ Corner today, our Nandi Sikwana featured Mitchell Warren on Merck’s MK-8527 monthly oral #PrEP pill. Advocates stressed why another pill matters: choice, discretion & flexibility for AGYW, and called for access planning & accountability now, not later.

#HIV

The #HIV response must #RethinkRebuildRise:

🔹 Rethink financing – through domestic investment, innovation & engagement

🔹 Rebuild momentum – by protecting infrastructure & advancing science

🔹 Rise – by defending evidence-based policy, science & civil society

- IAS's Anna Grimsrud, #SAAIDS2025

#SAAIDS2025 #CloseTheGap Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is encouraging people who have stopped taking their ARVs, as well as those who have been newly diagnosed with HIV, to start treatment immediately in order to live a long and healthy life.

#MyTreatmentWorks
#BetterMenForTomorrow

📢 Deputy President Paul Mashatile will officially open the 12th SA AIDS Conference tomorrow at Emperors Palace, Gauteng.

Under the theme “Unite for Change – Empower Communities and Redefine Priorities for HIV/AIDS”. ❤️🌍

#SAAIDS2025 #UniteForChange #EndAIDS #HealthForAll