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Browsing Research Articles (Family Medicine) by Type "Postprint Article"
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(Springer, 2023-01)The “right of everyone to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications,” also known as the right to science, is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law. ...
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(Elsevier, 2016-09)BACKGROUND : The available data on antimicrobial stewardship programmes in Africa are scarce. The aims of this study were to assess the implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship programme in a setting with limited ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2023)BACKGROUND : Methadone is a recommended medication for opioid agonist maintenance therapy (OAMT). However, methadone can have cardiac side effects. There is limited South African cardiac safety data on methadone. OBJECTIVE ...
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(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2014)BACKGROUND : South African HIV-infected infants below age 6 months and children younger than 3 years on concomitant antimycobacterial treatment received full-dose ritonavir single protease inhibitor (RTV-sPI), together ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2024-11)BACKGROUND : Female sex workers (FSWs) face a confluence of multilevel barriers to HIV care. In South Africa, 63% of FSWs are living with HIV and <40% are virally suppressed. The objective of this analysis was to ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-09)BACKGROUND: Progestin-only oral contraceptive pills (POPs) have fewer contraindications to use compared to combined pills. However, the overall prevalence of contraindications to POPs among reproductive aged women has not ...
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(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2024-03)Given the international growth of physician associate/physician assistant (PA) and PA-comparable professions, it is crucial to understand the educational curricula of PA/PA-comparable professions worldwide. This article ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2024)After nearly a decade of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) rollout in sub-Saharan Africa, there has been limited study of PrEP messaging in news media. We selected twenty South African newspapers with the highest circulation ...
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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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(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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(Elsevier, 2024-04)Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have delivered high response rates (>95%) and simplified the management of HCV treatment, permitting non-specialists to manage patients without advanced ...
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(Elsevier, 2013)BACKGROUND Patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia respond inadequately to existing drugs. We aimed to assess the effi cacy and safety of the microsomal triglyceride transfer protein inhibitor lomitapide ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2018-04)The importance of community involvement in public health research processes is well established. The literature is, however, less forthcoming about processes of community inclusion in public health project implementation, ...
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(Elsevier, 2014)BACKGROUND : Abdominal lymphadenopathy in HIV remains a challenge due to inaccessibility of lymph nodes and multitude of causes. The diagnostic yield of EUS FNA in HIV-infected patients with abdominal lymphadenopathy ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-04)PURPOSE : This study assesses risk factors of loss to follow-up (LTFU) and estimates mortality risk among female sex workers (FSW) with HIV in Durban, South Africa, in 2018–2021. METHODS : We used data from the ...
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(Sage, 2015-10)OBJECTIVE : To determine the prevalence and factors associated with blood pressure (BP) control. METHODS : In a cross-sectional study involving 251 consecutively-sampled patients, a semi-structured questionnaire collected ...
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Fostering integrated, collaborative approaches to end street homelessness : a COVID-19 perspective (Routledge, 2020)This article maps the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in the City of Tshwane through the lens of street homelessness. This is done through a “thick description” of what happened during this time. This map is then read against ...
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(Springer, 2019-03)INTRODUCTION : Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic pain syndrome. Previous analyses of untargeted metabolomics data indicated altered metabolic profile in FMS patients. OBJECTIVES : We report a semi-targeted explorative ...
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(European Respiratory Society, 2015-08)HIV-infected persons not only have higher rates of smoking than the general population, but are also unusually vulnerable to the associated adverse health effects, both infective and non-infective in origin. Indeed, in ...
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