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Yogan Pillay is the country director, South Africa and senior global director, Universal Health Coverage at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the national health department’s former deputy director general for communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Follow him on Twitter @ygpillay.

#AIDS2022: What is the use of anti-HIV injections when those who...

Francois Venter, Fatima Hassan and Yogan Pillay - March 30, 2022 0

Curious about what the National Health Insurance will cover? Then you’ll...

Jeanne-Marie Tucker, Kalipso Chalkidou and Yogan Pillay - January 30, 2020 0

Scientists say the current tests designed to detect even very low levels of HIV present in the body are simply not sensitive enough.

The health department responds to Bhekisisa’s HIV testing article: ‘Services are...

Yogan Pillay and Tian Johnson - October 22, 2019 0

How do we reduce new HIV infections by 60% in a...

Yogan Pillay - June 12, 2019 0

The health department has proposed accrediting public hospitals to provide c-sections as a way of improving the safety of the procedures across the country.

This is putting SA’s women in the grave, so what’s the...

Yogan Pillay - February 12, 2019 0

Research shows that drug-resistant TB accounts for a quarter of the 10-million deaths that might be associated with antimicrobial resistance by 2020.

This kills more than 700 of us each day. Now, the...

Yogan Pillay - October 11, 2018 0

Abortion: Government to get tougher on doctors with moral objections

Yogan Pillay - November 17, 2017 0

Medical student Inati Mcapazeli studies a chest x-ray at Cape Town’s Brooklyn Chest Hospital on World TB Day 2012.

We can achieve a TB-free South Africa, but it’s time to...

Yogan Pillay - March 23, 2017 0

The United Nations will bring together 192 countries for the fourth high-level meeting on tuberculosis in 2018.

United Nations’ first high-level meeting on TB could usher in a...

Yogan Pillay - January 30, 2017 0

Antiretrovirals are changing. In the future

Will South Africa reach its 90-90-90 HIV targets?

Yogan Pillay - November 30, 2016 0

Pills and more: The health department says it has developed comprehensive guidelines for the prevention of TB in prisons and the treatment of those prisoners who have the disease.

Government tackles TB in prisons

Yogan Pillay - June 5, 2015 0

Most medical aids won't cover a new

Staunching SA’s pregnancy wound

Peter Barron and Yogan Pillay - October 4, 2013 0

Breastfeeding is one of the most powerful tools we have to tackle child mortality.

Superfood for babies

Yogan Pillay - August 1, 2013 0

Women

Contraceptive policy overhauled

Peter Barron and Yogan Pillay - June 13, 2013 0

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