South Africa and Health
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- Experiences from sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS
- Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
- The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change. Development actors are paying...
- Sexual health and HIV: New reports highlight how research can make an impact
- Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy. This publication is a supplement of the ...
- Uptake and use of ICTs as e-health solutions in South Africa
- N.L. Ruxwana; M.E. Herselman; D.P. Conradie / Health Information Management Journal, 2010
- This paper describes a study which focused on factors perceived to influence the uptake and use of Information and Communication Technology solutions (ICTs) as e-health solutions in selected rural Eastern Cape healthcare centres (Sout...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organiza...
- Why has the South African TB programme failed?: identifying new control strategies
- R. Wood; S.D. Lawn; S. Johnstone-Robertson; L.G. Bekker / South African Medical Journal, 2011
- This article looks at the reasons for the failure of South Africa’s current tuberculosis (TB) control programme by looking at the major drivers of the TB epidemic. The authors also identify new control strategies that they argue...
- Global lessons learned around HIV and AIDS
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Twenty-five years of knowingly living with HIV, the global community is still falling behind the virus in its alarming, complex and often hidden progress. Despite many diverse and creative successes in committed peoples’ respons...
- Coordinated regional response to migration and health needed in Southern Africa
- J. Vearey; L. Nunez / The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand, 2010
- Southern Africa represents a region of diverse migration patterns including the movement of people within countries, across borders and between different continents. This paper focuses on South Africa, and explores the linkages betwee...
- Studies on health and well-being among people aged 50 years and over in eight countries in Africa and Asia
- Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
- Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health...
- Promoting emergency contraception sector in South Africa
- P. Maharaj; M. Rogan / School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2007
- This report reflects some preliminary findings of an ongoing collaborative project to investigate the impact of trade liberalisation on reproductive health rights. The project aims to examine the links between trade policy and reprodu...
- Assessing the prevalence and consequences of tuberculosis in South Africa
- N. R. Gandhi; A. Moll; A.W. Sturm / The Lancet, 2006
- Tuberculosis is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV greatly increases the risk of active tuberculosis disease and about 80 per cent of patients presenting wit...
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