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South African child deaths 1990-2011: have HIV services reversed the trend enough to meet Millennium Development Goal 4?
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013)
OBJECTIVE: To analyse trends in under-five mortality rate in South Africa (1990–2011),
particularly the contribution of AIDS deaths.
METHODS: Three nationally used models for estimating AIDS deaths in children ...
Testing together challenges the relationship': Consequences of HIV Testing as a couple in a High HIV prevalence setting in Rural South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
OBJECTIVE: We conducted qualitative individual and combined interviews with couples to explore their experiences since
the time of taking an HIV test and receiving the test result together, as part of a home-based HIV ...
No association between cumulative traumatic experiences and sex in risk for posttraumatic stress disorder among human immunodeficiency virus-positive adults
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2013)
This study examined the association between the type and number
of traumatic experiences and the conditional risk for posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD), stratified by sex, in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
We ...
Doing a leisure activity because there is nothing else to do: Related outcomes and intervention effects for adolescents
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)
This study examined whether a leisure-focused intervention, HealthWise, was related to reduced youth polysubstance use and delayed sexual debut via reducing how often youth did leisure activities because there was nothing ...
Quality of home-based rapid HIV testing by community lay counsellors in a rural district of South Africa
(International Aids Society, 2013)
INTRODUCTION: Lack of universal, annual testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in health facilities suggests that
expansion of HIV testing and counselling (HTC) to non-clinical settings is critical to the achievement ...
Socio-cultural, environmental and behavioural determinants of obesity in black South African women
(Clinics Cardive Publishing (Pty) Ltd, 2013)
South Africa (SA) is undergoing a rapid epidemiological
transition and has the highest prevalence of obesity in sub-
Saharan Africa (SSA), with black women being the most
affected (obesity prevalence 31.8%). Although ...
Effect of home based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa: cluster randomised trial
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2013)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of home based HIV counselling and testing on the prevalence of HIV testing and reported behavioural changes in a rural subdistrict of South Africa.
DESIGN: Cluster randomised controlled ...
Eliminating mother to child HIV transmission in South Africa
(World Health Organization (WHO), 2013)
PROBLEM: The World Health Organization has produced clear guidelines for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, ensuring that all PMTCT programme components ...
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 ...
A generational exploration of coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa: marching towards a new personhood
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
During the early history of South Africa, in what would become the Western Cape province, Europeans (from Dutch, German, French, and Portuguese) mixed racially and culturally with Cape slaves (from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, ...