With HIV funding cuts and the roll-out of lenacapavir, the new six-monthly anti-HIV injection, dominating much of our coverage in 2025, we wanted to make sure you didnt miss some of our favourite essays and longreads of the year.
These stories arent the ones that always make the headlines, but they often take us deeper into the people and places on the frontlines of public health in South Africa.
Follow our journey into universities, hospitals, clinics and communities, with an unavoidable dose of the impact of the Trump administration on South Africas healthcare system.
Intodays newsletter, Tanya Pampalone introduces our favourite essays and longform stories from 2025 on public health in South Africa.Sign up for our newsletter today.
It wasnt just the Trump administrations assault on HIV funding and research, the tobacco industrys influence machine, our obesity crisis or the mad scramble to get you the latest on the new six-monthly anti-HIV injection that kept us up at night in 2025.
There was the story about a professor that drinks tequila with rock stars and an essay that stopped a finance minister mid-speech. The 1934 generator that still keeps a hospital alive. That one night in the rural health clinic. The sliver of land called Magelekedeni, where mental health scars run deeper than the flood damage. And that time we went to San Francisco, where an HIV activist raised a poster he thought hed retired decades ago.
