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Mission hospital responses to challenges and implications for their future role in India's health system
(Health for All Nations, 2020)
India's health system is currently experiencing rapid change. Achieving India's aspirations for improved population health and universal health coverage will require the contribution of all health providers; public, ...
Integrating the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV into primary healthcare services after AIDS denialism in South Africa: perspectives of experts and health care workers - a qualitative study
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Integrating Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programmes into routine health services under complex socio-political and health system conditions is a priority and a challenge. The successful rollout of ...
Building back from the ground up: The vital role of communities
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
Globally the COVID-19 pandemic has destabilised health systems and communities.
Governments in low- and middle-income
countries (LMICs) followed the approaches
adopted by the Global North and advocated
by international ...
The household economic burden of non-communicable diseases in 18 countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. In 2014, the United Nations committed to reducing premature mortality from NCDs, including by reducing the burden of healthcare costs. Since 2014, ...
Drug-resistant tuberculosis patient care journeys in South Africa: A pilot study using routine laboratory data
(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), 2020)
hirteen districts in Eastern Cape (EC), KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Western Cape (WC) Provinces, South Africa. OBJECTIVE: To pilot a methodology for describing and visualising healthcare journeys among drug-resistant tuberculosis ...
Multiple pathways to scaling up and sustainability: An exploration of digital health solutions in South Africa
(BMC, 2021)
With the aim to support further understanding of scaling up and sustaining digital health, we explore
digital health solutions that have or are anticipated to reach national scale in South Africa: the Perinatal ...
Integrated community case management of childhood illness in low- and middle-income countries
(John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)
The leading causes of mortality globally in children younger than five years of age (under-fives), and particularly in the regions of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Southern Asia, in 2018 were infectious diseases, including ...
Adolescent health in the sustainable development goal era: Are we aligned for multisectoral action?
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
Adolescents are an increasing proportion of low and middle-income country populations. Their coming of age is foundational for health behaviour, as well as social and productive citizenship. We mapped intervention areas ...
Access to healthcare for people with disabilities in South Africa: Bad at any time, worse during COVID-19?
(AOSIS, 2021)
People with disabilities, especially those living in low- and middle-income countries,
experience significant challenges in accessing healthcare services and support. At times of
disasters and emergencies, people with ...
Unlocking scal space of expanding the health workforce in district health systems in Uganda in the context of PEPFAR transition
(University of the Western Cape, 2021-03)
Although expanding fiscal space for health worker recruitments could reduce workforce shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa, effective strategies for achieving this are still unclear. We aimed to understand the process of ...