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RFK Jr is in. Is health in America on its way out?

Robert F. Kennedy Jr has fought Big Pharma and Big Food, but he’s also spread dangerous misinformation about vaccines, fluoride and even HIV. Now he’s going to run the US health system.

Defying Trump: Some Pepfar projects can now restart in full — without a waiver

The original grants of Pepfar-funded organisations who are funded through the Centres for Disease Control have been reinstated. This is because a federal judge enforced a temporary restraining order blocking US President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal grants.

Inside the Pepfar waiver letters: What’s in and out

Pepfar-funded projects in South Africa have received waiver letters in which they’ve been asked to review their activities. But the national health department, which receives Pepfar funding that makes up 17% of the department’s HIV budget, has not received a waiver letter.

[UPDATE] Embassy confirms Pepfar projects will restart — despite Trump’s aid ban

On Monday night, the US Embassy in Tshwane issued a press release, confirming Bhekisisa’s earlier story, published on Monday, that projects funded via the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, Pepfar, are exempted from President Donald Trump’s executive order that bans foreign aid to South Africa.

[PODCAST SERIES] Vaping vs smoking: which is truly safer? 

The promotion of e-cigarettes has led to a rise in vaping. Bhekisisa’s three-part narrative podcast looks at how vaping has evolved in South Africa and finds out if it’s a useful innovation in a world where regular cigarettes are becoming unacceptable. Or is it simply another method of delivering nicotine to a lucrative new and younger market?

Pepfar projects are exempted from Trump’s ban on aid for SA

South African projects funded through the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, Pepfar, are exempted — at least until the end of April — from the executive order that US President Donald Trump issued on Saturday.