Celebrating 21 years and introducing the 21st anniversary issue

Supplements have been published intermittently to address special themes or mark events, such as the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society’s (SAHCS’) biennial conference. Since 2020 and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, annual editions have been published as online e-books only. The SAJHIVMED, which already boasted Scientific Electronic Library Online South Africa (SciELO SA);SCOPUS;Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE/ISI [Institute for Scientific Information]);African Index Medicus;African Journals Online;Directory of Open Access Journals;Ebscohost;Embase;Gale, Cengage Learning;Google Scholar;and ProQuest indexing, and was added to the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, Level 1, in 2017, was awarded PubMed Central accreditation status in 2018. Martin held a number of prestigious positions, including Past President of SAHCS from 1998 to 2008;Editor-in-Chief of the SAJHIVMED;Deputy Director of the National Institute for Virology;Convenor of Examiners for the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa;Chair of the Basic Sciences Track at the 13th International Aids Conference, Durban, SA, in 2000;visiting Professor Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore (1998);and Professor in the Department of Clinical Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria. Prof. Bekker, as SAJHIVMED Editor-in-Chief, wrote at the start of 2005 that: Since inception of the journal in July 2000 an impressive list of guidelines has been compiled and peer reviewed by local experts.