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Post-doctoral research fellowship as a health policy and systems research capacity development intervention: a case of the CHESAI initiative
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Building capacity in health policy and systems research (HPSR), especially in low- and middle-income
countries, remains a challenge. Various approaches have been suggested and implemented by scholars ...
A mobile school-based HCT service – is it youth friendly?
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Despite an increase in HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT), few young people have been tested. It has been suggested
that they do not test because formal health services (where HCT is provided) are often not ...
Barriers to adherence to antiretroviral treatment in a regional hospital in Vredenburg, Western Cape, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2016)
BACKGROUND: South Africa currently runs the largest public antiretroviral treatment (ART)
programme in the world, with over 80% of people living with HIV and/or AIDS on ART.
However, in order to appreciate the benefits ...
Predictors of nurses’ and midwives’ intentions to provide maternal and child healthcare services to adolescents in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: Adolescent mothers are at a much higher risk for maternal mortality compared to mothers aged
20 years and above. Newborns born to adolescent mothers are also more likely to have low birth weight, with the
risk ...
Critiquing the response to the Ebola epidemic through a Primary Health Care Approach
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: The 2014/2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic has caused the global public health community to
engage in difficult self-reflection. First, it must consider the part it played in relation to an important public
health ...
The acceptability of three vaccine injections given to infants during a single clinic visit in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has increased the number of antigens and injections
administered at one visit. There are concerns that more injections at a single immunisation visit could ...
Towards developing an initial programme theory: Programme designers and managers assumptions on the antiretroviral treatment adherence club programme in primary health care facilities in the metropolitan area of Western Cape Province, South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
BACKGROUND
The antiretroviral adherence club intervention was rolled out in primary health care facilities
in the Western Cape province of South Africa to relieve clinic congestion, and improve
retention in care, and ...
Weak signal detection: A discrete window of opportunity for achieving ‘Vision 90:90:90’?
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2016)
INTRODUCTION: UNAIDS’ Vision 90:90:90 is a call to ‘end AIDS’. Developing predictive foresight of the unpredictable changes that
this journey will entail could contribute to the ambition of ‘ending AIDS’. There are few ...
Built environment, selected risk factors and major cardiovascular disease outcomes: a systematic review
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
INTRODUCTION
Built environment attributes have been linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Therefore,
identifying built environment attributes that are associated with CVD risk is relevant for
facilitating effective ...
Study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial of an NCD access to medicines initiative: evaluation of Novartis Access in Kenya
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016)
INTRODUCTION: Novartis recently launched Novartis
Access, an initiative to provide a basket of reduced
price medicines for non-communicable diseases
(NCDs) to be sold through the public and private nonprofit
sectors ...