Research Publications: Recent submissions
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Text, voice-notes, and Emojis: Exploring the use of WhatsApp as a responsive research method for qualitative studies
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Unprecedented times are upon us and the need for ethically responsive online research methods is increasing exponentially. Currently, literature is showing that previously frowned upon methods such as ... -
Policy implementation challenges and barriers to access sexual and reproductive health services faced by people with disabilities: An intersectional analysis of policy actors’ perspectives in post-conflict Northern Uganda
(Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022)Emerging from a 20-year armed conflict, Uganda adopted several laws and policies to protect the rights of people with disabilities, including their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) rights. However, the SRH rights ... -
Exploring women’s exposure to marketing of commercial formula products: A qualitative marketing study from two sites in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)Regulating the marketing of commercial formula products is a long-term commitment required to protect breastfeeding. Marketing strategies of formula manufacturers, retailers and distributors evolve at a rapid rate. The aim ... -
Management of type 1 diabetes in low- and middle- income countries: Comparative health system assessments in Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Peru and Tanzania
(Wiley, 2022)To describe and compare the health system responses for type 1 diabetes in Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Peru and Tanzania. The Rapid Assessment Protocol for Insulin Access, a multi- level assessment of the health system, was implemented ... -
Factors associated with viral suppression among adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Free State province, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2022)In 2019, about 1.7 million adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years were living with HIV worldwide, of which 170000 were newly infected with HIV in 2019. South Africa has the highest number of persons living with ... -
Managing international, intercultural, and interdisciplinary collaboration in health and well-being capacity building: Lessons learned within the CASO higher education project
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)In defining successful collaborative international projects within the theory of change or logic model, focus is often on ‘outcome’ and ‘impact’. Less empirical information is available regarding the ‘input’ and ... -
A scoping review of how exposure to urban violence impacts youth access to sexual, reproductive and trauma health care in LMICs
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)Violence in the community can impact access to health care. This scoping review examines the impact of urban violence upon youth (aged 15–24) access to sexual and reproductive health and trauma care in Low and Middle Income ... -
Community structure and timing of sexual activity among adolescent girls in Nigeria
(Public Library of Science, 2022)Studies have linked the timing of sexual debut to unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmissible infections, including HIV. Current understandings of sexual debut among Nigerian adolescents focused on the roles of ... -
Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness studies in Nigeria: Quo vadis?
(International Society of Global Health, 2022)The “lickety-split” development of COVID-19 vaccines 326 days from when the SARS-COV-2 virus was first sequenced is indeed one of the public health successes of the 21st century. Particularly because an 18-month target ... -
Scaling up improved inpatient treatment of evere Malnutrition: Key Factors and Experiences From South Africa, Bolivia, Malawi, and Ghana"
(Global health, 2022)Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) can have high mortality, especially in very ill children treated in the hospital. Many medical and nursing schools do not adequately, if at all, teach how to manage children with SAM. There ... -
Measuring Mental Wellness of Adolescents: A Systematic Review of Instruments
(Front. Psycho, 2022)Objective: Mental health is critical to the healthy development of adolescents. However, mental health encompasses more than the absence of mental illness; and should include indicators of mental wellness. A critical review ... -
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 ... -
Women’s use of non-conventional herbal uterotonic in pregnancy and labour: Evidence from birth attendants
(BMC, 2022)Over the years, governments and stakeholders have implemented various policies/programmes to improve maternal health outcomes in low-middle-income countries. In Ghana, Community Health Ofcers were trained as midwives to ... -
Legislation and policies for the right to maternity protection in South Africa: A fragmented state of affairs
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Maternity protection rights incorporate comprehensive benefits that should be available to pregnant or breastfeeding working women.To describe South Africa’s maternity protection legal and policy landscape and compare it ... -
They push their products through me: health professionals’ perspectives on and exposure to marketing of commercial milk formula in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa – a qualitative study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)Objective To understand the views of public and private sector health professionals on commercial milk formula, to describe their exposure to companies that market commercial milk formula within their workplaces and ... -
Public risk perception and behaviours towards COVID-19 during the first and second waves in Nigeria: a secondary data analysis
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)Objectives To describe changes in public risk perception and risky behaviours during the first wave (W1) and second wave (W2) of COVID-19 in Nigeria, associated factors and observed trend of the outbreak. Design A ... -
Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 3. Programme governance
(BMC, 2021)Background: Community health workers (CHWs) can play a critical role in primary healthcare and are seen widely as important to achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The COVID-19 pandemic ... -
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. ... -
‘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 ...