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  Collaboration between traditional practitioners and primary health care staff in South Africa: developing a workable partnership for community mental health services

  Transcultural Psychiatry, 2010

  This paper posits that the majority of the black African population in South Africa utilise both traditional and public sector Western systems of healing for mental health care. As such, the authors argue that there is a need to develop models of collaboration that promote a workable relationship between the two healing systems.
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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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  ICT applications as e-health solutions in rural healthcare in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

  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 (South Africa), and on structural variables relating to these facilities and processes.
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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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  Migration and health in South Africa: a review of the current situation and recommendations for achieving the world health assembly resolution on the health of migrants

  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 between health and the diverse movements of people within the county and across its borders. The document finds that:
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  Private sector involvement in funding and providing health services in South Africa: implications for equity and access to health care

  EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2010

  This paper explores private sector involvement in funding and providing health services in South Africa and the implications for equity and access to health care. The paper notes that 44% of total health care expenditure is attributable to private health insurance and is almost exclusively spent on private for-profit providers, such as hospitals, specialists, medicines and retail pharmacies.
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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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