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Aging with HIV: Increased risk of HIV comorbidities in older adults
(MDPI, 2022)
With improved access to antiretroviral treatment (ART), adults with HIV live longer to
reach older age. The number of older adults living with HIV is increasing steadily, giving rise to
a new population of interest in ...
The health-sustaining, moderating, and mediating roles of sense of coherence in the relationship between fear of Covid-19 and burnout among South African teachers
(MDPI, 2022)
The current study focuses on the interrelationship between fear of COVID-19, sense of
coherence, and burnout. Participants (n = 355) were school teachers from across all provinces in
South Africa who completed the Fear ...
The past is so present: Understanding Covid‑19 vaccine hesitancy among African American adults using qualitative data
(Springer, 2022)
African Americans (AAs) are disproportionately afected by structural and social determinants of health, resulting in greater risks of exposure to and deaths from COVID-19. Structural and social determinants of health feed ...
The HIV epidemic in South Africa: Key findings from 2017 national population-based survey
(MDPI, 2022)
South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV worldwide. South Africa
has implemented five population-based HIV prevalence surveys since 2002 aimed at understanding
the dynamics and the trends of the ...
Optimising scale and deployment of community health workers in Sierra Leone: a geospatial analysis
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Little is known about strategies for
optimising the scale and deployment of community health
workers (CHWs) to maximise geographic accessibility of
primary healthcare services.We used data from a national georeferenced
census ...
‘We had to manage what we had on hand, in whatever way we could’: Adaptive responses in policy for decentralized drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
In 2011, the South African National TB Programme launched a policy of decentralized management
of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in order to expand the capacity of facilities to treat patients
with DR-TB, minimize ...
Program sustainability post PEPFAR direct service support in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2021)
Public health practitioners have little guidance around how to plan for the sustainability of
donor sponsored programs after the donor withdraws. The literature is broad and provides
no consensus on a definition of ...
Risk factors for Covid-19 infection among healthcare workers. A first report from a living systematic review and meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 2022)
Health care workers (HCWs) are more than ten times more likely to be infected with coronavirus in-
fectious disease 2019 (COVID-19) than the general population, thus demonstrating the burden of COVID-
19 among HCWs. ...
Perceived vulnerability to disease and the relationship with teacher satisfaction in South Africa during Covid-19: The serial role of burnout, role conflict, and ambiguity
(MDPI, 2022)
Teachers’ work roles and responsibilities have changed dramatically because of the
COVID-19 pandemic. These unprecedented changes have the potential to generate role stress and
burnout and reduce teachers’ job satisfaction. ...
Whole-of-community interventions that address alcohol-related harms: Protocol for a scoping review
(BMC, 2022)
Alcohol-related harm is a rising global
concern particularly in low-income and middle-income
countries where alcohol use fuels the high rates of
violence, road traffic accidents and is a risk factor
for communicable ...