• The contribution of family physicians to residential mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tshwane District, South Africa 

  Kruger, Annelet; Eales, O.O. (Owen); Jansen van Vuuren, Sanet (AOSIS, 2021-07-23)

  During the start of the first wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, two family physicians in Tshwane, South Africa, reviewed the people at high-risk within their Health Catchment Area. The largest ...
• Analysis of maternal serum vitamin D concentrations at birth in women presenting with spontaneous preterm birth : a case-control study 

  Chiudzu, Grace; Maluwa, Alfred; Choko, Augustine; Odland, Jon Oyvind (Women's Health and Action Research Centre (WHARC), 2021-04)

  Vitamin D is a potent immune system modulator; its deficiency correlates with increased susceptibility to infections. We evaluated the status of maternal serum vitamin D in women with spontaneous preterm birth. In this ...
• Holistic management of female infertility : a systematic review 

  Armah, Deborah; Van der Wath, Anna Elizabeth; Yazbek, Mariatha; Naab, Florence (Women's Health and Action Research Centre, 2021-04)

  Although issues pertaining to infertility affect both males and females, women often become victims of stigmatization and rejection, making them susceptible to emotional pain and suffering. Due to these psychosocial problems, ...
• A review on the role of silicon treatment in biotic stress mitigation and citrus production 

  Mvondo-She, Mireille Asanzi; Gatabazi, Auges; Laing, Mark Delmege; Ndhlala, Ashwell Rungano (MDPI Publishing, 2021-10-30)

  This paper reviews the threat of citrus pathogens during citrus production, with a focus on two pre-harvest diseases, citrus leaf spot, caused by Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissl. (1912) and brown rot, caused by ...
• Ocular manifestations of HIV and AIDS patients on antiretroviral therapy in a tertiary hospital in South Africa 

  Makunyane, P.S. (Priscilla); Mathebula, Solani D. (AOSIS, 2021-09-21)

  BACKGROUND : Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) causes impairment to the immune system, which then leads to immunocompromised conditions, and allows for opportunistic infection ...

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