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A plea of those who are affected most by HIV: The utterances by women who inject Nyaope residing in the City of Tshwane Municipality, Gauteng
Background: Nyaope injecting practice brought the field of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) together. It …
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Disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus status to children: Pattern followed by parents and caregivers
BACKGROUND: Disclosure of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status may be perceived as simply the process of revealing a person's HIV …
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Lived experiences of human immunodeficiency virus and hypertension in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Globally, the healthcare system is burdened with the rise in communicable diseases compounded by the comorbidity of non-communicable diseases. …
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Contracting of private medical practitioners in a National Health Insurance pilot district: What has been the effect on primary healthcare utilisation indicators?
BACKGROUND: In 2012, the National Department of Health in South Africa started contracting of private medical practitioners (MPs) as part …
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Incidental finding of COVID-19 infection amongst staff at a primary care facility in Ghana
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every country worldwide and all African countries. The issue of healthcare workers (HCWs) contracting …
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Turnaround times – the Achilles’ heel of community screening and testing in Cape Town, South Africa: A short report
Early in the course of the coronavirus infection disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in South Africa, the Department of Health implemented …
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Patient-centred care: The patients’ perspective – A mixed-methods pilot study
BACKGROUND: Patient centredness is a broad concept, a moral philosophy. Patient-centred care can be viewed as the actions of patient-centredness. …
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The Cape Town International Convention Centre from the inside: The family physicians’ view of the ‛Hospital of Hope’
This short report captures the week-by-week reflections of a group of family physicians who joined the clinical and operational management …
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Prevalence, healthcare costs and management of non-communicable diseases in people living with human immunodeficiency virus: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Coexistence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is an important public health issue of increasing concern. …
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CLEVER maternity care: A before-and-after study of women’s experience of childbirth in Tshwane, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Birthing care matters to women and some women experience mistreatment during childbirth. AIM: To determine the effect the 'CLEVER …
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A task-sharing intervention for prepartum common mental disorders: Feasibility, acceptability and responses in a South African sample
BACKGROUND: Peripartum common mental disorders (CMD) are highly prevalent in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) such as South Africa. With …
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Adolescent–parent communication on sexual and reproductive health issues amongst secondary school students in Western Region 1 of The Gambia
BACKGROUND: Adolescent-parent communication about sexual issues is a challenging issue worldwide. In The Gambia, many traditional communities limit such communication …
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Figuring it out by yourself: Perceptions of home-based care of stroke survivors, family caregivers and community health workers in a low-resourced setting, South Africa
BACKGROUND: In less resourced settings, formal rehabilitation services for stroke survivors were often absent. Stroke survivors were referred to community …
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Re-organising primary health care to respond to the Coronavirus epidemic in Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town is currently one of the hotspots for COVID-19 on the African continent. The Metropolitan Health Services have re-organised …
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Analysis of a SARS-CoV-2 daily screening programme for healthcare workers at a district hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, a quality improvement initiative
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused an unprecedented burden on our healthcare systems and workers. Healthcare …
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Emergency centre reorganization in preparation to the COVID-19 pandemic: A district hospital’s dynamic adaptation response
The COVID-19 global pandemic forced healthcare facilities to put special isolation measures in place to limit nosocomial transmission. Cohorting is …
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Implementing a video call visit system in a coronavirus disease 2019 unit
The lockdown and physical distancing strategies imposed to combat COVID-19 have caused seismic shifts at all levels of society. Hospitals …
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Factors associated with low contraceptive use amongst vulnerable mothers in South West State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Young mothers tend to be more prone to high maternal and perinatal risks and are thus deemed vulnerable to …
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COVID-19: Pandemic burden in Sub-Saharan Africa and the right to health – The need for advocacy in the face of growing privatisation
For Africa, the backdrop1 against which COVID-19 emerged is a stark one. Although sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 11% of the …
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Geographical distribution and antibiotics susceptibility patterns of toxigenic Vibrio cholerae isolates from Kisumu County, Kenya
BACKGROUND: Multiple drug resistance has become a major threat to the treatment of cholera. Recent studies in Kenya have described …