South Africa and Health
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- Meeting their needs? Discussing young people’s sexual health
- Ian Warwick; Peter Aggleton / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- More than six thousand people aged 16-25 become infected with HIV every day worldwide. But the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs of young people are often neglected. The Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme, funded by DFID, h...
- Predictions of social breakdown caused by rise in orphanhood are unfounded
- R. Bray / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2003
- This paper examines and questions the predictions found in the academic and policy literature of social breakdown in Southern Africa in the wake of anticipated high rates of orphanhood caused by the AIDS epidemic. Analysis of t...
- The effectiveness of home based care for HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa
- Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2002
- This report assesses the critical elements of a POLICY Project supported venture for seven hospices to incorporate the Integrated Community-based Home Care (ICHC) model into their operational activities, reflecting on the experiences ...
- Impact of HIV/AIDS on public health, home care, employment, gender and poverty: a household survey in South Africa
- M. Steinberg; S. Johnson; G. Schierhout; D. Ndegwa / Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002
- This report summarises the results of a survey of 771 AIDS-affected households in different parts of South Africa. It documents the impoverishing impact of HIV/AIDS on households and the inordinate burden of caring for AIDS-sic...
- Impact on developing countries due to the mass migration of their health professionals to richer countries
- T. Martineau; K. Decker; P. Bundred / Health Sector Reform Research Work Programme, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2002
- The international movement of labour is greatest amongst those with a high level of skill. Health professionals form the biggest group of skilled migrants. This is facilitated by the fact that within the profession there is a globally...
- Redressing health inequalities in South Africa
- D. McIntyre; D. Muirhead; L. Gilson; V. Govender; S. Mbatsha1; J. Goudge; H. Wadee; P. Ntutela / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2000
- This research project explores the potential use of small geographic areas as a unit of analysis for identifying communities with high levels of deprivation or relative disadvantage. It also considers the usefulness of such small area...
- Encouraging private healthcare providers to compete for government funding could increase access for the poor
- N. Palmer; A. Mills; H. Wadee; L. Gilson; H. Schneider / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2003
- The use of private health care providers in low- and middle-income countries is widespread and is the subject of considerable debate. This article, produced by the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, reviews a new model of priv...
- Researchers use South African prevalence study as further evidence of high rates of medical transmission of HIV
- S. Brody; D. Gisselquist; J. Potterat; E. Druckerb / British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2003
- This paper is the latest in a series arguing that HIV transmission in Africa is attributable to unsafe medical practices in far more cases than have been previously believed. The authors begin with data from a recent, comprehensive, p...
- Specialists linked with local doctors through ICTs
- Bridges.org, 2003
- This case study describes the Tygerberg Children's Hospital and Rotary Telemedicine Project in South Africa, which links specialists from Tygerberg Hospital to doctors at regional community or "district" hospitals to improve healthcar...
- Social marketing for young people's sexual health - what works?
- Population Services International, 2000
- This report, produced by Population Services International (PSI), describes a project that tested the impact of youth-oriented social marketing techniques on adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Interventions and communications ...
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