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“Without a mother”: caregivers and community members’ views about the impacts of maternal mortality on families in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(BioMed Central, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality in South Africa is high and a cause for concern especially because the bulk of deaths from maternal causes are preventable. One of the proposed reasons for persistently high maternal mortality ...
“If you are circumcised, you are the best”: understandings and perceptions of voluntary medical male circumcision among men from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
(2015)
While the uptake of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is increasing,
South Africa has only attained 20% of its target to circumcise 80% of adult men by
2015. Understanding the factors influencing uptake is ...
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 ...
Emerging roles and competencies of district and sub-district pharmacists: a case study from Cape Town
(BioMed Central, 2015)
District and sub-district pharmacist positions were created during health sector reform in South Africa.
High prevalence of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and increasing chronic non-communicable diseases have drawn attention ...
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 ...
Referral outcomes of individuals identified at high risk of cardiovascular disease by community health workers in Bangladesh, Guatemala, Mexico, and South Africa
(Taylor & Francis Open Access, 2015)
We have found that community health workers (CHWs) with appropriate training are able to
accurately identify people at high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in the community who would benefit from
the introduction of ...
Quality of HIV counselling in South Africa
(Kamla-Raj, 2015)
HIV counselling and testing (HCT) has become increasingly available in South Africa since the 1990s. Over 4500 public health facilities offer client and provider-initiated HIV counselling and testing. Counselling and testing ...