On 28 September 2021, the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine published the guideline ‘Southern African HIV Clinicians Society gender-affirming healthcare guideline for South Africa’* by Tomson et al.1
The above guideline is a condensed version of the ‘Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Gender-Affirming Healthcare Guideline for South Africa – Expanded Version’2
Following post-publication review, certain sections in the guideline have been updated to correct wording that was inaccurately formulated in the published version.
The authors have been notified of this correction.
These corrections do not change the guideline’s recommendations in any way.
In the published article, the Acknowledgement and Funding Information sections stated the following:
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the contributors involved in the peer review process: Casey Blake, Pierre Brouard, Marli Conradie-Smit, Jenna-Lee de Beer-Procter, Diana Dickinson, Jenny Durandt, Kerry Frizelle, Gerhard Grobler, Naomi Hill, Kim Lithgow, Adele Marais, Sakhile Msweli, Lavanya Naidoo, Tammy Nash, Juan Nel, Simon Pickstone-Taylor, Suntosh Pillay, Alicia Porter, Ian Ross, Andrew Scheibe, Jireh Serfontein, Ariane Spitaels, Liesl Theron, John Torline, Leigh Ann van der Merwe, Niel Victor and Lee-Anne Walker. A special note of thanks also goes to Valencia Malaza from SAHCS for administrative support.
Funding information
The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship or publication of this article.
This correction updates the Acknowledgement and Funding Information sections as follows:
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the contributors who strengthened the ‘Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Gender-Affirming Healthcare Guideline for South Africa – Expanded Version’2 with valuable feedback in the peer review process: Casey Blake, Pierre Brouard, Marli Conradie-Smit, Jenna-Lee de Beer-Procter, Diana Dickinson, Jenny Durandt, Kerry Frizelle, Gerhard Grobler, Naomi Hill, Kim Lithgow, Adele Marais, Sakhile Msweli, Lavanya Naidoo, Tammy Nash, Juan Nel, Simon Pickstone-Taylor, Suntosh R. Pillay, Alicia Porter, Ian Ross, Andrew Scheibe, Jireh Serfontein, Ariane Spitaels, Liesl Theron, John Torline, Leigh Ann van der Merwe, Niel Victor and Lee-Anne Walker. The authors also acknowledge and thank the following legal advisors for their contribution: Mandi Mukarikwa and Charlene May from the Women’s Legal Centre, and Karabo Ozah and Moyahabo Thoka from the Centre for Child Law. A special note of thanks also goes to Valencia Malaza from the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society for administrative support.
The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine acknowledges that this article, ‘Southern African HIV Clinicians Society gender-affirming healthcare guidelines for South Africa’1 was published without undergoing journal-led peer review based on a pre-submission review process with final review and acceptance by the Editor-in-Chief at the time.
Funding information
The authors received no financial support for the authorship of this article. The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society paid the article processing charges for the publication of this article.
ReferencesTomsonA, McLachlanC, WattrusC, et al. Southern African HIV Clinicians’ Society gender-affirming healthcare guideline for South Africa. S Afr J HIV Med. 2021;22(1):a1299. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v22i1.1299SAHCS Guidelines: Southern African HIV Clinicians Society gender-affirming healthcare guideline for South Africa – Expanded [homepage on the Internet]. 2021[cited 2026 Feb 19]. Available from: https://sahivsoc.org/Subheader/Index/sahcs-guidelines
How to cite this correction: Maartens G. ‘Erratum: Southern African HIV Clinicians Society gender-affirming healthcare guideline for South Africa’. South Afr J HIV Med. 2026;27(1):a1812. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v27i1.1812
Note: DOI of original article published: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v22i1.1299.