[NOT TO BE MISSED] Forty-four years into the HIV epidemic, new science gives us unprecedented hope — but also exposes old inequalities. Health Beat’s World Aids Day edition sees Mia Malan at home with Justice Edwin Cameron, who has lived with HIV since 1985, and catches up with Linda-Gail Bekker, whose team led the trials for lenacapavir, a twice-yearly prevention jab that’s almost 100% effective. Their stories remind us: science alone won’t end HIV. Policy, funding and equity must follow. Catch