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(Unisa Press, 2023-09)The City of Tshwane and University of Pretoria’s Community Oriented Substance Use Programme (COSUP) is an applied research intervention to address drug use-related harms in the city by using a harm reduction community-oriented ...
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(Health Systems Trust, 2022-12)BACKGROUND : The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted healthcare service delivery globally. The aim of this study was to assess effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the uptake of routine healthcare services related to maternal, ...
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(Health Systems Trust, 2022-12)BACKGROUND : The COVID-19 pandemic caused great social, political and economic disruption, and imposed unprecedented changes in work, lifestyle, service delivery and social interactions in South Africa and worldwide. ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2022-11-15)Cervical cancer is largely preventable through early detection, but screening uptake remains low among black women in South Africa. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with ...
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(African Field Epidemiology Network, 2022-09-08)INTRODUCTION : we determined the prevalence, patterns and factors associated with tobacco use among women presenting for cervical cancer screening in primary health care clinics in Gauteng province, South Africa. METHODS ...
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(African Field Epidemiology Network, 2022-09-20)INTRODUCTION : globally, cervical cancer remains a public health problem. It is ranked the fourth most common cause of women's cancer. In South Africa, it was the second most common cancer diagnosed in 2012. The disease ...
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(Makerere University, Medical School, 2023-06-02)BACKGROUND : The inclusion of research in undergraduate medical curricula benefits students as well as the scientific community. Multiple studies report the presence of one or more barriers to research training in these ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-01-30)BACKGROUND : Opioid substitution therapy (OST) is evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorders and, when taken as maintenance therapy, has proven health and social benefits. The benefits of OST are achieved through ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-04-03)BACKGROUND : In order to contain the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa during the national state of emergency, the Gauteng Department of Social Development established temporary shelters and activated existing facilities ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-07)Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a global health problem affecting 58 million people, 80% of whom live in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). In 2019, 1·5 million new HCV infections and 290 000 HCV-related deaths ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-05)BACKGROUND : South Africa reported a notable increase in COVID-19 cases from mid-November, 2021, onwards, starting in Tshwane District, which coincided with the rapid community spread of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron (B.1.1.529) ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-11)BACKGROUND : The use of opioids is increasing globally, but data from low- and middle-income countries on opioid-related mental and behavioural disorders (hereafter referred to as opioid-related disorders) are scarce. This ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2022-09)BACKGROUND : HIV endpoint–driven clinical trials provide oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as HIV prevention standard of care. We evaluated quantifiable plasma tenofovir among South African women who used oral PrEP ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2022-10)BACKGROUND : Pretreatment HIV drug resistance (PDR) undermines individual treatment success and threatens the achievement of UNAIDS 95-95-95 targets. In many African countries, limited data are available on PDR as detection ...
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Infrastructural inequality and household COVID-19 vulnerability in a South African urban settlement (Springer, 2022-06)COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of household infrastructure in containing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, with Global South urban settlements particularly vulnerable. Targeted interventions have used area or dwelling ...
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(African Center for Research and Information on Substance Abuse, 2022)Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is a persistent and global public health and social problem. This scoping review explores and describes the impact that Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) have on families and carers. It draws on ...
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(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2022-01)BACKGROUND : The infectiousness of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is known to be shaped by the human environment, with research showing positive associations with poverty, homelessness and overcrowding, among other factors. ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-12-20)BACKGROUND : Homeless people are a vulnerable population susceptible to physical and mental health care problems. There are, however, limited studies and information regarding the health of the homeless population. AIM : ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-07-07)BACKGROUND : Basic palliative care teaching should be included in training curricula for health care providers (HCPs) at all levels of the health service to ensure that the goal set by the South African (SA) National Policy ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-09-28)BACKGROUND : The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has highlighted the scope of heroin dependence and need for evidence-based treatment amongst marginalised people in South Africa. Acute opioid withdrawal management ...
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