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  Primary health care facility infrastructure and services and the nutritional status of children 0-71-months-old and their caregivers attending these facilities in four rural districts in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, South Africa

  South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2010

  The objective of this study is to assess primary health care (PHC) facility infrastructure and services, and the nutritional status of 0 to 71-month-old children and their caregivers attending PHC facilities in the Eastern Cape (EC) and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provinces in South Africa. The design used is a cross-sectional survey.
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  South African Health Review / Health Systems Trust

  The South African Health Review (SAHR) provides both current and longer-term analysis and assessment of health policy developments and their implementation in South Africa, and monitors changes and ch
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  BRICS and South-South cooperation in medicine: emerging trends in research and entrepreneurial collaborations

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012

  Though there is huge spectrum of South-South collaboration, led by the economies from the BRICS countries in the medical field there is a lack of studies examining the extent and characteristics of these collaborations and evaluating their benefits.
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  Global health in foreign policy - and foreign policy in health? Evidence from the BRICS

  Health Policy and Planning, 2014

  Amidst the growing literature on global health, much has been written recently about the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) countries and their involvement and potential impact in global health, particularly in relation to development assistance.
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  Strengthening Community and Health Systems for Quality PMTCT: Applications in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Ethiopia

  Pathfinder International, 2013

  Globally, there are an estimated 34 million people living with HIV, the vast majority of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. There are increasing efforts to reverse the trend, with emphasis placed on creating a generation in which no children are born infected with the disease.
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  Reimagining mobile in South Africa: Lessons from year one

  2014

  This report explores the programmatic processes, successes and lessons learned by Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action South Africa (MAMA SA), an innovative public-private partnership that delivers vital health information to new and expectant mothers and their families through the use of mobile technology.
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  South Africa's National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP): case study

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2013

  The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in South Africa is a large government sponsored programme reaching over 8 million learners in primary and secondary schools. The emphasis of the programme is on the provision of the daily balanced and diverse cooked meal, with nutrition education and sustainable food production being the other two pillars of the programme.
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  Maternal Mental Health in the Context of Community-based Home Visiting in a Re-engineered Primary Health Care System: A Case Study of the Philani Mentor Mothers Programme

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  This document examines a case study of the Philani Mentor Mothers Programme - a maternal mental health intervention in South Africa. Specifically, it describes the context of global health, mental health in South Africa, and a case study of a generalist health intervention (with a maternal mental health component) by a South African NGO, Philani, within the current fluid South African heal
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  Adding new spices to development cooperation. Brazil, India, China and South Africa in health, agriculture and food security

  Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven, 2013

  In recent years, the four so-called emerging powers or economies - Brazil, India, China and South Africa (the BICS) - have gained considerable academic, policy and media attention for their activities in development cooperation. Some authors argue that these countries employ innovative and alternative approaches to development cooperation than the traditional, i.e. OECD-DAC donors.
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  Seen, heard and counted: rethinking care in a development context

  Development and Change Journal, 2012

  This is a diverse collection of contributions covering various aspects of care from around the world, from Chinese women’s burdens under economic reform, to the political and social organisation of childcare in Argentina.

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