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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Practice and power: a review and interpretive synthesis focused on the exercise of discretionary power in policy implementation by front line providers and managers
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Tackling the implementation gap is a health policy concern in low- and middleincome
countries (LMICs). Limited attention has so far been paid to the influence of power relations over this gap. This article presents, ...
Local level inequalities in the use of hospital-based maternal delivery in rural South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2014)
BACKGROUND: There is global concern with geographical and socio-economic inequalities in access to and use of maternal delivery services. Little is known, however, on how local-level socio-economic inequalities are related ...
Development of non-profit organisations providing health and social services in rural South Africa: a three year longitudinal study
(PLOS, 2013)
INTRODUCTION: In an effort to increase understanding of formation of the community and home-based care economy in south Africa, we investigated the origin and development of non-profit organisations (NPOs) providing home-and ...
Lay health workers and HIV programmes: Implications for health systems
(Routledge, 2010)
One of the consequences of massive investment in antiretroviral access and other AIDS programmes has been the
rapid emergence of large numbers of lay workers in the health systems of developing countries. In South ...
Unequal access to ART: exploratory results from rural and urban case studies of ART use
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2012)
INTRODUCTION: South Africa has the world's largest antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme. While services in the public sector are free at the point of use, little is known about overall access barriers. This paper ...