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Access to care in people living with HIV

Author: Du Toit, Elizabeth Date: 2012 South Africa has the most people living with HIV (PLWH) in the world. With increased access to HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) as well as expanded Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) treatment guidelines; there is a large and increasing number of ... Read more
Completion of isoniazid preventive therapy and factors associated with non-completion in an antiretroviral therapy-naive HIV-infected cohort in Cape Town by Tolu Oni.

Author: Oni, Tolu Date: 2012 TB incidence in South Africa remains high, despite high rates of successful treatment suggesting ongoing transmission and a large reservoir of latently infected persons. Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) is recommended as preventive therapy ... Read more
Correcting for mortality among patients lost to follow up on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa: a cohort analysis

Author: Van Cutsem, Gilles ; Ford, Nathan ; Hildebrand, Katherine ; Goemaere, Eric ; Mathee, Shaheed ; Abrahams, Musaed ; Coetzee, David ; Boulle, Andrew Date: 2011 BACKGROUND: Loss to follow-up (LTF) challenges the reporting of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes, since it encompasses patients alive but lost to programme and deaths misclassified as LTF. We describe LTF before and after correction ... Read more c b
Differences in antiretroviral scale up in three South African provinces: the role of implementation management

Author: Schneider, Helen ; Coetzee, David ; Van Rensburg, Dingie ; Gilson, Lucy Date: 2010 BACKGROUND:South Africa's antiretroviral programme is governed by defined national plans, establishing treatment targets and providing funding through ring-fenced conditional grants. However, in terms of the country's quasi-federal constitution, ... Read more c b
Drug-drug interactions between antiretrovirals and bedaquiline

Author: Pandie, Mishal Date: 2017 Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. People living with HIV are particularly susceptible to TB infection, and treatment of HIV-TB co-infection is challenging for multiple reasons, including potential ... Read more
The effect of complete integration of HIV and TB services on time to initiation of antiretroviral therapy: a before-after study

Author: Kerschberger, Bernhard ; Hilderbrand, Katherine ; Boulle, Andrew M ; Coetzee, David ; Goemaere, Eric ; Azevedo, Virginia De ; Cutsem, Gilles Van Date: 2012 BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that early ART initiation in TB/HIV co-infected patients lowers mortality. One way to implement earlier ART commencement could be through integration of TB and HIV services, a more efficient model of care than ... Read more c b
Effect of counselling and condom provision on sexual behaviour of heterosexual HIV discordant couples as part of an HIV prevention trial South Africa

Author: Namale, Phiona Enid Date: 2011 South Africa as a country has a high HIV prevalence. Due to the fact that HIV transmission is predominantly heterosexual, HIV discordant couples are a high risk group for HIV. A number of HIV prevention interventions have been targeted at HIV ... Read more
The effectiveness of PMTCT in the Free State - An anonymously linked cord blood survey

Author: Amoo, Marian Ama Date: 2010 [ Background ] PMTCT has become freely available in many African countries however the impact of these interventions at the population level has not been widely estimated. [ Aim ] The aim of this study was to estimate the proportion of HIV ... Read more
The effectiveness of PMTCT programmes through the measurement of NVP coverage in populations of women delivering in designated areas in the Western Cape Region of South Africa

Author: Tabana, Hanani Date: 2010 [Objective] The objective was to assess the uptake and coverage of SD-NVP to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in women of unknown HIV status presenting in labour a sample of delivery sites in the Western Cape. This monitoring ... Read more
Effectiveness of the first district-wide programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa

Author: Coetzee, David ; Hilderbrand, Katherine ; Boulle, Andrew ; Draper, Beverley ; Abdullah, Fareed ; Goemaere, Eric Date: 2005 Objective: The aim of this study was to estimate the field efficacy of the first routine programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) initiated in South Africa, in the subdistrict ... Read more
Epidemic levels of drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR and XDR-TB) in a high HIV prevalence setting in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Author: Cox, Helen S ; McDermid, Cheryl ; Azevedo, Virginia ; Muller, Odelia ; Coetzee, David ; Simpson, John ; Barnard, Marinus ; Coetzee, Gerrit ; van Cutsem, Gilles ; Goemaere, Eric Date: 2010 BACKGROUND: Although multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is emerging as a significant threat to tuberculosis control in high HIV prevalence countries such as South Africa, limited data is available on the burden of drug resistant ... Read more c b
Evaluating measles vaccination coverage in high incidence areas of the Western Cape Province, following the mass vaccination campaign

Author: Bernhardt, Gina Leanne Date: 2012 Measles virus is known to be one of the most contagious of infectious agents and despite considerable progress towards elimination, a number of Sub-Saharan African countries experienced epidemics in 2009-2011, including South Africa, in which ... Read more
An evaluation of the quality of antenatal care and patient satisfaction in two provinces of South Africa

Author: Besada, Donnela Date: 2011 The aim of this study was to investigate the quality of service delivery for HIV-infected women at antenatal clinics in the Western Cape and Free State provinces, South Africa and to highlight areas for improvement. It was part of a larger ... Read more
Factors associated with outcomes of patients placed on tuberculosis treatment in the western geographic service area of Cape Town

Author: Nyoni, Irene Date: 2018 Background In the Western Cape Province of South Africa, tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem and in 2012 accounted for 7.40% of premature deaths. The Province has also experienced an increase in TB incidence in the past 20 years. ... Read more
Factors that influence the use of insecticide treated bed nets in a rural community in Mangochi District, Malawi

Author: Chithope-Mwale, George Date: 2005 The aim of the current study was to investigate factors that influence the use of insecticide treated bed nets in a rural community in Mangochi district in Malawi. Read more
Health facility characteristics and their relationship to coverage of PMTCT of HIV services across four African countries: the PEARL study

Author: Ekouevi, Didier K ; Stringer, Elizabeth ; Coetzee, David ; Tih, Pius ; Creek, Tracy ; Stinson, Kathryn ; Westfall, Andrew O ; Welty, Thomas ; Chintu, Namwinga ; Chi, Benjamin H Date: 2012 BACKGROUND: Health facility characteristics associated with effective prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) coverage in sub-Saharan are poorly understood. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We conducted surveys in health ... Read more c b
High yield of culture-based diagnosis in a TB-endemic setting

Author: Demers, Anne-Marie ; Verver, Suzanne ; Boulle, Andrew ; Warren, Robin ; van Helden, Paul ; Behr, Marcel ; Coetzee, David Date: 2012 BACKGROUND: In most of the world, microbiologic diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is limited to microscopy. Recent guidelines recommend culture-based diagnosis where feasible. METHODS: In order to evaluate the relative and absolute incremental ... Read more c b
Human papillomavirus prevalence in South African women and men according to age and human immunodeficiency virus status

Author: Mbulawa, Zizipho Z A ; Coetzee, David ; Williamson, Anna-Lise Date: 26 Oct 2015 Background: Both cervical cancer and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are major public health problems in Sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of the study were to investigate human papillomavirus (HPV) prevalence according to age, HIV status ... Read more
Immunisation coverage of the Western Cape Province : household survey 2005

Author: Corrigall, Joanne Date: 2009 [Objective] To determine the routine immunisation coverage rates in children aged 12-23 months in the Western Cape and factors affecting immunisation coverage. [Design] Cross-sectional Household Survey using an adaptation of the '30x7' cluster ... Read more
Influence of HIV, smoking and hyperglycaemia on the reporting of TB symptoms in a TB prevalence survey

Author: Sattar, Shahra Date: 2013 Finding and treating cases [of tuberculosis] in the community before they present to health facilities, a strategy known as active-case-finding is gaining momentum as a way to decrease the infectious pool. This can be achieved through ... Read more

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