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Can social innovation advance the PMTCT programme? A South African reflection
(Sinnergiak Social Innovation, 2022)
The prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programme is an initiative developed to enable health care practitioners to provide essential care to mothers in order to prevent the transmission of HIV to their ...
Module evaluation for emergency remote teaching: An oral hygiene case study during the Covid-19 pandemic
(South African Medical Association, 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the disruption of academic programmes
globally, thereby compelling contact universities to adopt a reactionary mode
of programme delivery.[1,2] South African (SA) universities were ...
The beneficial effects of professional identity: The mediating role of teaching identification in the relationship between role stress and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic
(MDPI, 2022)
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and students rapidly transitioned to
remote teaching and learning. In South Africa, this initial transition was followed by periods of
reopening and closing of schools ...
Multimorbidity patterns in a national HIV survey of South African youth and adults
(Frontiers Media, 2022)
Information pertaining to multimorbidity is frequently informed by studies
from high income countries and it is unclear how these findings relate to low and middle
income countries, where the burden of infectious disease ...
Integrating gestational diabetes screening and care and Type 2 diabetes mellitus prevention after GDM into community based primary health care in South Africa- mixed method study
(Ubiquity Press, 2022)
Despite high gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) prevalence in South
Africa (9.1% in 2018), its screening and management are not well integrated into
routine primary health care and poorly linked to post-GDM prevention ...
Family resilience and the Covid-19 pandemic: A South African study
(MDPI, 2022)
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic created various challenges for individuals and
families across the globe. Many countries went into a state of disaster and applied strict lockdown
regulations to limit the spread of the ...
Weathering the Covid-19 storm: The impact on health professionals
(AOSIS, 2021)
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health professionals have been on
the forefront of delivering healthcare whilst experiencing unprecedented stress facing complex
ethical situations, heavy workloads, ...
Grappling with the scourge of money laundering during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The deadly COVID-19 pandemic has unfortunately presented new opportunities for perpetrators to exploit. As such, hefty amounts of economic crimes such as money laundering and money laundering threats were committed from ...
A retrospective study exploring how South African newspapers framed Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders over an 11-year period (2004–2014)
(BMC, 2022)
The way schizophrenia is portrayed in the media contributes to the dissemination of misinformation
about the symptoms, causes, and treatment of mental disorders and has the potential to perpetuate or mitigate
the ...
The role of emergent champions in policy implementation for decentralised drug-resistant tuberculosis care in South Africa
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Champions are recognised as important to driving
organisational change in healthcare quality improvement
initiatives in high-income settings. In low-income and
middle-income countries with a high disease burden
and ...