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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 ... -
Barriers to adolescents' access and utilisation of reproductive health services in a community in north-western nigeria: A qualitative exploratory study in primary care
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)There is a dearth of qualitative studies exploring in-depth barriers that adolescents face in accessing and utilising reproductive health services (RHS) in Nigerian primary healthcare centres. Aim: This study explored the ... -
Barriers to community mental health users’ access to information needed to deal with mental health problems, Western Cape, South Africa
(African Association for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance, 2015)The most important advancement in the healthcare industry in the 21st century is the application of information technology (IT) in health care. While integrated IT is critical in transforming mental health care, IT ... -
Barriers to effective parenting of adolescent children in resource-constrained communities
(University of Stellenbosch, 2022)The study examined barriers to effective parenting of adolescent children in resourceconstrained communities. A qualitative approach was adopted for data collection and analysis. Thematic analysis was applied to data ... -
Barriers to tacit knowledge retention: an understanding of the perceptions of the knowledge management of people inside and outside the organisation
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013)BACKGROUND: Knowledge loss causes challenges for organisations that wish to remain competitive. These organisations must identify the risks that could lead to knowledge loss and become aware of issues that affect knowledge ... -
Barriers to utilisation of physiotherapy services among the elderly in the Livingstone district, Zambia
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)AIM: The purpose of this study was to identify the barriers to utilisation of physiotherapy services among elderly people in Zambia. METHODS: By means of a convenience sampling technique, 200 elderly people, both males ... -
The baryonic Tully–Fisher relation in the SIMBA simulation
(Oxford University Press, 2020)We investigate the Baryonic Tully–Fisher relation (BTFR) in the (100h−1Mpc)3SIMBA hydrodynamical galaxy formation simulation together with a higher resolution (25h−1Mpc)3SIMBA run, for over 10 000 disc-dominated, H I-rich ... -
The baseline assessment of Grade 1 learners’ literacy skills in a socio-economically disadvantaged school setting
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Research has revealed that the academic performances of learners in South Africa are below the required level. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) launched the literacy and numeracy strategy 2006–2016 in response ... -
Baseline assessment of the WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA maternal and newborn quality-of-care standards around childbirth: Results from an intermediate hospital, northeast Namibia
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2023)Background: Quality of care around childbirth can reduce above half of the stillbirths and newborn deaths. Northeast Namibia’s neonatal mortality is higher than the national level. Yet, no review exists on the quality of ... -
Baseline assessment of WHO's target for both availability and affordability of essential medicines to treat non-communicable diseases
(Public Library of Science, 2017)BACKGROUND: WHO has set a voluntary target of 80% availability of affordable essential medicines, including generics, to treat major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), in the public and private sectors of countries by ... -
Baseline assessment of WHO's target for both availability and affordability of essential medicines to treat non-communicable diseases
(Public Library of Science, 2017)Background: WHO has set a voluntary target of 80% availability of affordable essential medicines, including generics, to treat major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), in the public and private sectors of countries by 2025. ... -
Basic rights claims How responsive is ‘reasonableness review’?
(ESR Review, 2004)South Africa’s 1996 Constitution (the Constitution) is widely renowned for its holistic, inclusive Bill of Rights. A particular innovation is its inclusion of a wide range of fully justiciable socio-economic rights. There ... -
Basic statistical estimation outperforms machine learning in monthly prediction of seasonal climatic parameters
(MPDI, 2021)Machine learning (ML) has been utilized to predict climatic parameters, and many successes have been reported in the literature. In this paper, we scrutinize the effectiveness of five widely used ML algorithms in the ... -
Battery and data drain of over-the-top applications on low-end smartphones
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2018)Low-end smartphones with sub $50 price tags provide affordable device ownership to low-income populations. However, their limited capacity, when combined with the need for multimodal connectivity, raises usage concerns in ... -
Battling the race: Stylizing language and coproducing whiteness and colouredness in a freestyle rap performance
(American Antrhopological Association, 2015)In the last 19 years of post-apartheid South African democracy, race remains an enduring and familiar trope, a point of certainty amid the messy ambiguities of transformation. In the present article, we explore the ... -
Bayesian jackknife tests with a small number of subsets: application to HERA 21 cm power spectrum upper limits
(Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023)We present a Bayesian jackknife test for assessing the probability that a data set contains biased subsets, and, if so, which of the subsets are likely to be biased. The test can be used to assess the presence and likely ... -
BDNF Val66Met and DRD2 Taq1A polymorphisms interact to influence PTSD symptom severity: A preliminary investigation in a South African population
(Elsevier, 2013)BACKGROUND: We evaluated the role that selected variants in serotonin transporter (5-HTT), dopamine receptor 2 (DRD2) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) genes play in PTSD symptom severity in an at-risk population. ... -
BDNF Val66Met modifies the risk of childhood trauma on obsessive-compulsive disorder
(Elsevier, 2013)Childhood trauma has been linked to the development of later psychopathology, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Although evidence exists to suggest that genetic and environmental factors are involved in the ... -
Be a little careful: Women, violence, and performance in India
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)In this article Swati Arora analyzes a contemporary Indian feminist performance, Thoda Dhyaan Se (A Little Carefully, 2013), by framing it in the spatial ecosystem of the city of Delhi and exploring its engagement with ... -
“Because even the person living with HIV/AIDS might need to make babies” – Perspectives on the drivers of feasibility and acceptability of an integrated community health worker model in Iringa, Tanzania
(International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019)Background: Countries with health workforce shortages are increasingly turning to multipurpose community health workers (CHWs) to extend integrated services to the community-level. However, there may be tradeoffs with the ...
