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

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    Department of Health, Government of South Africa

    Government Department of South Africa.  Web site includes fact sheets, policy document, details of ministry structure.
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    Health-e

    Health-e is a news agency that produces news and in-depth analysis for the print and electronic media.
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    Models for funding and coordinating community-level responses to HIV/AIDS

    Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation, South Africa, 2007
    This research report from the South African Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) examines how community organisations responding to HIV can be effectively supported. The report uses case studies to illustrate seven different models for supporting community organisations through a combination of funding, capacity building and networking.
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    Help wanted: confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment

    Médecins Sans Frontières, 2007
    This Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) report examines the impact of human resources shortages witnessed by MSF teams in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, focusing largely on nurses in rural areas. It describes how MSF teams and local partners are trying to overcome human resource constraints.
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    Efforts underway to stem "brain drain" of doctors and nurses

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
    This report from the World Health Organization (WHO) outlines actions that are being taken to combat the problem of developing countries losing healthcare professionals through migration to wealthier countries.
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    Scaling up access to antiretroviral treatment in southern Africa: who will do the job?

    The Lancet, 2005
    This paper, published in the Lancet, examines plans for scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV-positive people in Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa. It reports that a lack of human resources for health, rather than financial resources, is regarded as the main obstacle to implementing national treatment plans in these countries.
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    Human resources: international context: Chapter 6 of the South African Health Review 2005

    Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2005
    This chapter, from the South African Health Review 2005, reviews human resources for health in South Africa from an international perspective. It highlights the vast inequities in global and regional distribution of health workers and briefly examines those factors affecting human resource development.
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    Antiretroviral therapy in primary healthcare: Experience of the Khayelitsha programme in South Africa

    World Health Organization, 2003
    This paper, published by the World Health Organization, discusses the experience of a Médecins Sans Frontières programme to offer antiretroviral (ARV) treatment within primary health care centres in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, South Africa.It provides an overview of the treatment programme, and outlines a range of positive outcomes.These include dramatic improvements in health a
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    HIV/AIDS, poverty and growth: evidence from a household impact study conducted in the Free State province, South Africa

    Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 2002
    This paper from the Centre for Study of African Economies (CSAE) reports on a study to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on households. It finds that many affected households in South Africa rely heavily on social welfare grants. This implies that the government will in future years be faced with increasing claims.
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    Patents, access to medicines and the role of non-governmental organisations

    Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004
    This Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paper looks at how patents adversely affect access to affordable medicines. Although effective medicine is available to treat many global diseases, one-third of the world’s population lacks access to these basic, but expensive drugs as a result of patent rights.

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