Author:Taylor, BettinaDate: 2020South Africa is experiencing a medico-legal crisis that is threatening the delivery of essential health care services, especially relating to maternal and fetal health. In the private sector, professional indemnity premiums for obstetricians ...Read more
Author:Siduna, WillieDate:2012Access to healthcare is one of the basic social goods which ensures that individuals lead healthy and long lives. There is an increased need towards ensuring access to health care for all, which has led to the question of how access is defined. ...Read more
Author:Docrat, SumaiyahDate:2012The control of tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa has fallen short of the targets outlined by the World Health Organization and without improvement; TB is expected to have grave consequences for both the mortality and morbidity of South Africans ...Read more
Author:Kaliki, ChipaloDate:2006According to the 2000/2001 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS), HIV/AIDS prevalence is 16% and is expected to be higher in the next five years. The disease is quite pervasive across all sectors of economic activity, but the impact is ...Read more
Author:Mweemba, ChrispinDate:2011Access to health care is a very important concept which has equally important
implications to the health status of individuals. However, there have been a lot of debates among researchers and policy makers on
what constitutes access, and ...Read more
Author:Magaso, Farai BeverleyDate:2011Although Zimbabwe has invested in nationwide scale-up of prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services, high HIV-specific under-five mortality rates continue to be observed. This study aimed to document the potential reasons for ...Read more
Author:Kevany, Sebastian; Meintjes, Graeme; Rebe, Kevin; Maartens, Gary; Cleary, SusanDate:2009Background: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being extended across South Africa. While efforts have been made to assess the costs of providing ART via accredited service points, little information is available on its downstream costs, particularly ...Read morecb
Author:Canana, Neide Mércia de Orlando HusseneDate:2019Introduction: Over the past few years, the capacity of the government of Mozambique to sustain the cost of payment of salaries to operationalize the Indoor Residual Spray (IRS), a widely recommended tool to control and prevent malaria, is ...Read more
Author:Lin, ImingDate:2009In 2003, South Africa's National Department of Health (DoH) initiated the roll out of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV positive individuals in the public health sector. Based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, South Africa's ...Read more
Author:Matsela, Lineo MarieDate:2021Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most common haematologic cancer, accounting for approximately 13% of all blood cancer cases worldwide. The global incidence rate increased by 126% from 1990 to 2016. In South Africa, multiple myeloma accounts ...Read more
Author:De Waal, ReneéDate:2016Strokes and ischaemic heart disease are among the top ten causes of death in South Africa. Given that burden of disease, it is important to establish whether interventions aimed at preventing cardiovascular disease are not only effective, but ...Read more
Author:Cleary, Susan; McIntyre, Di; Boulle, AndrewDate:2006BACKGROUND:Given the size of the HIV epidemic in South Africa and other developing countries, scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART) represents one of the key public health challenges of the next decade. Appropriate priority setting and ...Read morecb
Author:Barasa, Edwine WDate:2011In Kenya, an intervention to improve the quality of care of children was developed and tested in district hospitals. This was a multifaceted intervention employing clinical practice guidelines, training, supervision, feedback and facilitation, ...Read more
Author:Govender, Veloshnee; Fried, Jana; Birch, Stephen; Chimbindi, Natsayi; Cleary, SusanDate:2015BACKGROUND:In South Africa, HIV/AIDS remains a major public health problem. In a context of chronic unemployment and deepening poverty, social assistance through a Disability Grant (DG) is extended to adults with HIV/AIDS who are unable to ...Read morecb
Author:Docrat, SumaiyahDate:2020Over the past decade, calls to address the increasing burden of mental, neurological and substance-use (MNS) disorders and to include mental health care as an essential component of universal health coverage (UHC) have attracted mounting ...Read more