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Searching with a thematic focus on Health systems, HIV and AIDS in South Africa

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  Getting research into policy and practice

  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 increasing attention to the question of how research, despite barriers, can fulfil its potential to improve policy and practice.
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  Strengthening the research to policy and practice interface: exploring strategies used by research organisations working on sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

  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.
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  Research Network on AIDS and Older Persons in Africa and Asia

  The goal this network is to bring together active researchers who study the consequences for and contributions of older persons in Africa and Asia in relation to the AIDS epidemic in order to promote
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  Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve 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 Organization (WTO) Members to reduce prices and expand access to HIV medicines.
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  South African Medical Journal (SAMJ)

  The South African Medical Journal is a monthly peer reviewed, internationally indexed, general medical journal.
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  A doctor in your pocket

  The Economist, 2009

  This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors demonstrate how new technologies help to tackle the health problems of the world’s poorest.
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  Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA)

  The Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) has 76 member hospice programmes present in all nine provinces, and with hospice outreach programmes reaching many more areas.
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  Hearing community voices: grassroots perceptions of an intervention to support health volunteers in South Africa

  Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, 2008

  With the scarcity of African health professionals, volunteers are earmarked for an increased role in HIV/AIDS management, with a growing number of projects relying on grassroots community members to provide home nursing care to those with AIDS – as part of the wider task-shifting agenda. Yet little is known about how best to facilitate such involvement.
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  Impact of Stepping Stones on incidence of HIV and HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial

  British Medical Journal, 2008

  Stepping Stones, a 50 hour programme, aims to improve sexual health by using participatory learning approaches to build knowledge, risk awareness, and communication skills and to stimulate critical reflection.
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  Knowledge about HIV/AIDS and policy knowledge in a South African state hospital

  Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, 2007

  This article published in the SAHARA Journal investigates what level of HIV/AIDS knowledge medical staff have in a state hospital in South Africa. In particular it looks at their knowledge about and practical use of current HIV/AIDS policy and counselling programmes within their hospital. The conclusions are applicable to other hospitals in South Africa.

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