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Punching above their weight: a network to understand broader determinants of increasing life expectancy
(BMC, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Life expectancy initially improves rapidly with economic development but then tails off. Yet, at any
level of economic development, some countries do better, and some worse, than expected – they either ...
Addressing social determinants of health in South Africa: the journey continues
(Health Systems Trust (HST), 2017)
With the recent change from the Millennium Development Goals to
the 17 new Sustainable Development Goals, the focus of the global
development agenda is expanding: there is attention on a broader set of
social determinants ...
Is the Alma Ata vision of comprehensive primary health care viable? Findings from an international project
(Co-Action Publishing, 2014)
BACKGROUND: The 4-year (2007 2011) Revitalizing Health for All international research program (http://www.
globalhealthequity.ca/projects/proj_revitalizing/index.shtml) supported 20 research teams located in 15 ...
From research to practice: Lay adherence counsellors' fidelity to an evidence-based intervention for promoting adherence to antiretroviral treatment in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
In the Western Cape, lay counsellors are tasked
with supporting antiretroviral (ARV) adherence in public
healthcare clinics. Thirty-nine counsellors in 21 Cape
Town clinics were trained in Options for Health (Options),
an ...
The Feasibility of implementing a sexual risk reduction intervention in routine clinical practice at an ARV clinic in Cape Town: a case study
(Springer, 2011)
This case study with one lay adherence counsellor
assessed the implementation of Options for Health, a
sexual risk-reduction intervention based on Motivational
Interviewing (MI), in an antiretroviral clinic in Cape ...
"It's important to take your medication everyday okay?" An evaluation of counselling by lay counsellors for ARV adherence support in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Springer, 2013)
There is growing interest in standard care
programmes for antiretroviral (ARV) adherence support. In
South Africa, individual counselling following ARV initiation
is a main strategy for supporting adherence in the
public ...
The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented community based services towards comprehensive goals: a situation appraisal in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and
highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive and
integrated ...