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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
Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross-sectional study

Author: Moshabela, Mosa ; Schneider, Helen ; Silal, Sheetal ; Cleary, Susan Date: 2012 BACKGROUND: In low-resource settings, patients' use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand. However, little is known regarding patterns, drivers and ... Read more c b
An integrated approach of community health worker support for HIV/AIDS and TB care in Angonia district, Mozambique

Author: Simon, Sandrine ; Chu, Kathryn ; Frieden, Marthe ; Candrinho, Baltazar ; Ford, Nathan ; Schneider, Helen ; Biot, Marc Date: 2009 BACKGROUND:The need to scale up treatment for HIV/AIDS has led to a revival in community health workers to help alleviate the health human resource crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Community health workers have been employed in Mozambique since ... Read more c b
Practicing governance towards equity in health systems: LMIC perspectives and experience

Author: Gilson, Lucy ; Lehmann, Uta ; Schneider, Helen Date: 15 Sep 2017 The unifying theme of the papers in this series is a concern for understanding the everyday practice of governance in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) health systems. Rather than seeing governance as a normative health system goal addressed ... Read more c b
Scaling up health policies and services in low- and middle-income settings

Author: Hanson, Kara ; Cleary, Susan ; Schneider, Helen ; Tantivess, Sripen ; Gilson, Lucy Date: 2010 "Scaling up" effective health services is high on the policy agendas of many countries and international agencies. The current concern has been driven by growing recognition both of the challenges of achieving the health-related Millennium ... Read more c b
"She is my teacher and if it was not for her I would be dead" : exploration of rural South African Community Health Worker's informational and mediating roles in the home

Author: Zulliger, Rose Ellen Date: 2011 This thesis seeks to fill the gap in the literature by exploring CHW IEC roles through: a protocol for the Health Information in the Home (HIH) study of the quality of IEC services by Community Care Workers; a structured literature review of ... Read more
Strengthening the health system and ensuring equity in the wide-scale implementation of an antiretroviral therapy programme in South Africa

Author: Schneider, Helen ; Coetzee, David Date: 2003 Antiretroviral therapy (ART) makes a dramatic difference to the survival and health of people living with HIV. At present there are over 5 million people infected with HIV in South Africa. Greater access to ART could change the lives of ... Read more
A systematic review of task- shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa

Author: Callaghan, Mike ; Ford, Nathan ; Schneider, Helen Date: 2010 BACKGROUND: Shortages of human resources for health (HRH) have severely hampered the rollout of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. Current rollout models are hospital- and physician-intensive. Task shifting, or delegating ... Read more c b