#Aids2026: Thembi Xulu, the hip-hop mum trying to bring the anti-HIV jab home

#Aids2026: Thembi Xulu, the hip-hop mum trying to bring the anti-HIV jab home

Thembi Xulu has recently discovered that she can be a dealmaker. She’s leading the way for South Africa to make the anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir, on home soil.  To do this, the CEO of South Africa’s National Aids Council needs to get people and bodies with competing interests on one page — from profit-driven drug makers to the government to activists.  She’s on her way to the International Aids Conference kicking off in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday t…