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  How are young people in South Africa using mobile phones to bridge healthcare gaps?

  University of Durham, 2015

  Young people account for 30% of the population in South Africa, with just under 15 million young people aged 10 – 24 years.
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  Children’s mobility in Ghana: An overview of methods and findings from the Ghana research study

  Society, Biology and Human Affairs, 2011

  This paper is part of a collection forming A Special Issue, which covers selected themes from a larger project on child mobility in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa. The themes are those which individual members of the Ghana research team identified as of particular interest and on which they have reflected, drawing on material collected and analysed by the team as a whole.
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  Improving Access to Health for Women and Girls in Low-income Urban Settlements

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2016

  The world is becoming increasingly urbanised. Over one third of urban dwellers now reside in low-income urban settlements, where living conditions are often inadequate and there exist multiple barriers to access to health services for women and girls.
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  Evaluation of Season Two of the television drama series, Intersexions

  2015

  Intersexions I was a multi-award winning series, receiving eleven South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA), the Screen Excellence Award for best drama, the AfricommNet award for best mass media and the internationally acclaimed Peabody Award.
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  mHealth and Gender: Making the Connection

  Research in Gender and Ethics, 2015

  The use of mHealth interventions withinin health systems research is increasing, with few taking into account the connections between gender and mHealth. This policy brief attempts to fill this gap by exploring key connections between mHealth and gender that need to be taken into account when conducting or implementing mHealth research and interventions.&nbs
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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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  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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