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Ntuthuzelo Nene

15 February 2026 | 8:15

In his State of the Nation address President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the rollout of Lenacapavir, a six-monthly HIV prevention injection, to over 450 000 people this year.

File: This picture taken on August 5, 2019, shows the room of a TB patient inside Ward 16, where drug-resistant tuberculosis patients are housed and treated, at the Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. Picture: AFP/Michele Spatari

South Africa could be closer to imagining a future without HIV/AIDS.

In his State of the Nation address, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the rollout of Lenacapavir, a six-monthly HIV prevention injection, to over 450,000 people this year.

But health experts warn the fight isn’t over.

More than half of people with Tuberculosis (TB) are also living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and TB still claims 31,000 lives each year.

TB Accountability Consortium’s Russell Rensburg says the country needs to link HIV and TB services so communities can get treatment for both diseases.

"To fully address the impacts of HIV and Tuberculosis, we do call for improved and renewed focus on integrating the response of HIV/TB into the broader primary healthcare system."

READ:TB rights group urges government to ensure HIV and TB services are better integrated.