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Tracing shadows: How gendered power relations shape the impacts of maternal death on living children in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Elsevier, 2015)
Driven by the need to better understand the full and intergenerational toll of maternal mortality (MM), a mixed-methods study was conducted in four countries in sub-Saharan Africa to investigate the impacts of maternal ...
"She is my teacher and if it was not for her I would be dead": Exploration of rural South African community health workers' information, education and communication activities
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Community health workers (CHWs) are important resources in health systems affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. International guidelines on task-shifting recommend that CHWs can provide diverse HIV services, ranging from HIV ...
Challenges facing successful scaling up of effective screening for cardiovascular disease by community health workers in Mexico and South Africa: Policy implications
(iMED, 2016)
The integration of community health workers (CHWs) into primary and secondary
prevention functions in health programs and services delivery in Mexico and South
Africa has been demonstrated to be effective. Task-sharing ...
Community care workers, poor referral networks and consumption of personal resources in rural South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2014)
Although home-based care (HBC) programs are widely implemented throughout Africa, their success depends on the existence of an enabling environment, including a referral system and supply of essential commodities. The ...
Randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention trial for men who drink in South African alcohol-serving venues
(2013)
South African alcohol-serving establishments (i.e., shebeens) offer unique opportunities to reduce HIV risks among men who drink. Purpose: To test an individual- and a social structural-level HIV prevention intervention ...
Collective efficacy and HIV Prevention in South African Townships
(National Institute of Health, 2013)
South African townships have high HIV prevalence and a strong need for collective action to
change normative sexual risk behaviors. This study investigated the relationship between
perceptions of individuals about ...
The experience of cash transfers in alleviating childhood poverty in South Africa: Mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant
(Routledge, 2014)
Cash transfer (CT) programmes are increasingly being used as policy instruments to
address child poverty and child health outcomes in developing countries. As the
largest cash-transfer programme in Africa, the South ...
Applying a framework for assessing the health system challenges to scaling up mHealth in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background: Mobile phone technology has demonstrated the potential to improve health service delivery, but
there is little guidance to inform decisions about acquiring and implementing mHealth technology at scale in
health ...
Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background: In low-resource settings, patients’ use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care
and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand. However, little is known ...