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Gender differences in experiences of ART services in South Africa: a mixed methods study
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012)
Objectives: A mixed methods study exploring gender differences in patient profiles and experiences of
ART services, along the access dimensions of availability, affordability and acceptability, in two rural
and two urban ...
Treating an intervention level 1 patient: futile or brave?
(Medpharm Publications (Pty) Ltd, 2013)
An ethical dilemma describes conflicting opinions by different members of the care team. This article focuses on AJ, a five-year-old child
with cerebral palsy, who was born deaf and blind as a result of having contracted ...
Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children
(BioMed Central, 2015)
BACKGROUND: South Africa has the highest prevalence of overweight/obesity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Assessing the
effect of modifiable factors such as early infant feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity is therefore ...
Emtonjeni—A structural intervention to integrate sexual and reproductive health into public sector HIV care in Cape Town, South Africa: results of a phase II study
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
Integration of sexual and reproductive health within HIV care services is a promising strategy for increasing access to family planning and STI services and reducing unwanted pregnancies, perinatal HIV transmission and ...
Scaling up integration: Development and results of a participatory assessment of HIV/TB services, South Africa
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2010)
BACKGROUND: In South Africa the need to integrate HIV, TB and STI programmes has been recognised at a policy and
organisation level; the challenge is now one of translating policies into relevant actions and monitoring
...
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 ...
External stakeholders and health promoting schools: complexity and practice in South Africa
(Emerald, 2014)
Purpose: This paper examines the role of two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa, and how their initiatives and collaboration brought about a particular Health Promoting Schools (HPS) program ...
Building capacity to develop an African teaching platform on health workforce development: a collaborative initiative of universities from four sub Saharan countries
(BioMed Central, 2014)
INTRODUCTION: Health systems in many low-income countries remain fragile, and the record of human resource planning and management in Ministries of Health very uneven. Public health training institutions face the dual ...
Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: South African examples of a leadership of sensemaking for primary health care
(Biomed Central, 2014)
BACKGROUND: New forms of leadership are required to bring about the fundamental
health system changes demanded by primary health care (PHC). Using theory about
complex adaptive systems and policy implementation, this ...
Health policy and systems research: needs, challenges and opportunities in South Africa – a university perspective
(Health systems trust, 2013)
The last two decades have seen growing international recognition of the need to strengthen health systems in order to deliver already available, cost-effective health interventions. This chapter describes the parallel ...