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Training community care workers to provide comprehensive TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT integrated care in KwaZulu-Natal: Lessons learnt
(Wiley, 2012)
To describe a participatory approach to implement and evaluate ways to integrate and traincommunity care workers (CCWs) to enhance collaborative TB⁄HIV⁄PMTCT activities, and home-basedHIV counseling and testing (HCT) at ...
Engagement of non-government organisations and community care workers in collaborative TB/HIV activities including prevention of mother to child transmission in South Africa: Opportunities and challenges
(BMC, 2012)
The implementation of collaborative TB/HIV activities may help to mitigate the impact of the dual epidemic on patients and communities. Such implementation requires integrated interventions across facilities and levels of ...
Improving the coverage of the PMTCT programme through a participatory quality improvement intervention in South Africa
(BMC, 2009)
Despite several years of implementation, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in many resource poor settings are failing to reach the majority of HIV positive women. We report on a data driven ...
Fear of the perpetrator: A major reason why sexual assault victims delayed presenting at hospital
(Wiley, 2014)
Sexual violence occurs globally and has been reportedacross various cultures and among all demographic andsocio-economic groups. Although both sexes are affected,women are usually the victims and men the perpetrators;in ...
Characteristics and outcomes of gunshot-acquired spinal cord injury in South Africa
(South African Medical Association, 2017)
Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) caused by assault present a unique challenge facing the healthcare system, in that very little
is known about how these injuries manifest compared with other causes of injury. Understanding the ...
From pre-implementation to institutionalization: Lessons from sustaining a perinatal audit program in South Africa
(NLM (Medline), 2023)
Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR), or related forms of maternal and perinatal
death audits, can strengthen health systems. We explore the history of initiating, scaling up, and institutionalizing ...
Anxiety in brief: Assessment of the five-item trait scale of the state-trait anxiety inventory in South Africa
(MDPI, 2023)
The current study examined the psychometric properties of a short form of the trait scale
of the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Participants consisted of a convenience sample of
students (n = 322) who completed ...
The role of environmental factors on health conditions, general health and quality of life in persons with spinal cord injuries in South Africa
(MDPI, 2023)
The objective was to describe the individual items of the environmental factors
and to investigate the relationship between the environmental factors to health conditions, general
health and quality of life in people ...
A descriptive analysis of the role of a WhatsApp clinical discussion group as a forum for continuing medical education in the management of complicated HIV and TB clinical cases in a group of doctors in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2019)
As South Africa’s (SA) HIV programme increases in size, HIV/TB cases occur
that are often beyond the clinical scope of primary healthcare clinicians. In SA’s Eastern
Cape (EC) province, health facilities are geographically ...
Key challenges to achieving health for all in an inequitable society: The case of South Africa
(American Public Health Association, 2006)
The health inequalities in South Africa are rapidly worsening. Since 1994, the new democratic government has initiated a number of large-scale policies and programs with explicit pro-equity objectives that have improved ...