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Sources and types of information on self-care symptom management strategies for HIV and AIDS
(Oasis OpenJournals, 2014)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been known to exist for more than three decades now and there are still new infections being documented, with the recent statistics showing that, in the year 2012, there were about ...
Identification of HIV and AIDS-related competencies for nurse graduates in South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Three decades after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the global community has not been able to halt the epidemic of HIV infection. Various organisations have devised a number of policies and guidelines ...
Students’ experiences of the Case-Based Teaching and Learning Approach at a school of nursing in the Western Cape, South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
With the increase in nursing students’ enrolments in the first year of the Bachelor of Nursing programme at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from 150 in 2003 to 300 in 2005, case-based education (CBE) was introduced ...
Substance abuse and maxillofacial injuries
(South African Dental Association, 2014)
Some of the major causes of maxillofacial injuries are assault/
inter-personal violence (IPV), motor vehicle accidents
(MVAs), work-related injuries, sporting accidents and falls.
However, the epidemiological data for ...
Factors that motivate nurses to provide quality patient care in a rural hospital in Vhembe district, Limpopo Province, South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Health services in rural areas are known to be under-resourced in several ways and working conditions are often described as unfavourable. Nurses working under such conditions are likely to be demotivated; however, it seems ...
The Coronavirus Nucleocapsid is a Multifunctional Protein
(MDPI, 2014)
The coronavirus nucleocapsid (N) is a structural protein that forms complexes with genomic RNA, interacts with the viral membrane protein during virion assembly and plays a critical role in enhancing the efficiency of virus ...
A synthesis of past, current and future research for protection and management of papyrus (Cyperus papyrus L.) wetlands in Africa
(Springer Verlag, 2014)
Papyrus wetlands (dominated by the giant
sedge Cyperus papyrus L.) occur throughout eastern,
central and southern Africa and are important for
biodiversity, for water quality and quantity regulation
and for the livelihoods ...
Learning styles among nursing students, the implications for higher education institutions: A systematic review
(Unisa Press, 2014)
Understanding the learning styles of nursing students has been highlighted as an area in
the scholarship of teaching that needs attention. The aim of this review was to determine
the common learning styles of nursing ...
Odorant and gustatory receptors in the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans
(PLOS, 2014)
Tsetse flies use olfactory and gustatory responses, through odorant and gustatory receptors (ORs and GRs), to interact with their environment. Glossina morsitans morsitans genome ORs and GRs were annotated using homologs ...
Human African trypanosomiasis research gets booost: unravelling the tsetse Genome
(PLOS, 2014)
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a neglected disease that impacts 70 million people distributed over 1.55 million km2 in sub-Saharan Africa. Trypanosoma brucei gambiense accounts for ...