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(OTASA : Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2010-12)Developmental Dyspraxia and Sensory Modulation Dysfunction (SMD) are disorders of Sensory Integration (SI) and widely known to occupational therapists who use a SI framework to guide clinical practice. These disorders ...
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(South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2011)BACKGROUND: Fifth-year medical students from the University of Pretoria participated in a four-week rotation in the primary care clinics of a large metropolitan centre. An academic service-learning (ASL) approach was ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-01)SETTING: The Collaboration for Health Equity through Education and Research (CHEER) was formed in 2003 to examine strategies that would increase the production of health professionals who choose to practise in rural and ...
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(South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2011-03)BACKGROUND : Medically safe, elective male circumcision supports traditional and cultural rites of passage by reducing the risk of adverse events and death among men undergoing initiation. It is a way of preventing penile ...
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(South African Academy of Family Practice, 2011-03)Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are common clinical conditions that often co-exist. This combination has been called the deadly duet to emphasise the increased cardiovascular risk when the two conditions co-exist. ...
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Microbial translocation : a marker of advanced HIV-1 infection and a predictor of treatment failure? (University of Chicago Press, 2011-03-01)We agree that the issue of whether microbial translocation (MT) is a cause or consequence of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) disease progression is an important question that can only be addressed through ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-04)The South African (SA) National Department of Health (DoH) released new guidelines for the management of HIV/AIDS in April 2010. We discuss here controversial issues and operational challenges in the guidelines; the ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-05)This article briefly reviews the new South African HIV treatment guidelines for adults and adolescents, children and pregnant women. It focuses on the timing of the initiation of antiretroviral treatment and argues for ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-07)No abstract available.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-07)No abstract available.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-07)It is usually possible to deal with severe pain in patients with advanced cancer by following basic palliative care principles. Occasionally, however, a patient whose pain had previously been well controlled suddenly starts ...
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(BioMed Central, 2011-12-16)BACKGROUND: Tubal ligation is the most popular family planning method worldwide. While its benefits, such as effectiveness in protecting against pregnancies, minimal need for long-term follow-up and low side-effects ...
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(Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa, 2012)Certain risk factors play an important role in a person’s chances of developing heart disease. The more risk factors a person has, the greater the likelihood of developing heart disease. Proactively addressing the ...
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(South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2012)BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus is a composite disease that, if not well managed and controlled, may lead to severe complications. To avoid or delay these debilitating complications, it is necessary for the practitioner to ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-02)OBJECTIVES: To determine the percentage of nurses initiating new HIV-positive patients on therapy within 2 months of attending the Nurse Initiation and Maintenance of Antiretroviral Therapy (NIMART) course, and to identify ...
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(Wiley, 2012-03)Knowledge of the prevalence, morphology and location of the azygos lobe is essential for diagnostic and surgical procedures of the lungs related to mediastinal pathologies, especially to minimize intraoperative vascular ...
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(BioMed Central, 2012-07-31)BACKGROUND In South Africa the ever increasing demand for antiretroviral treatment (ART) runs the risk of leading to sub-optimal care in public sector ART clinics that are overburdened and under resourced. This study ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-09)These guidelines are intended as an update to those published in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine in January 2008. Since the release of the previous guidelines, the scaleup of antiretroviral therapy (ART) ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-09)BACKGROUND: In 2011 an experienced HIV nurse from the UK was deployed for 3 months to act as a mentor to nurses learning to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) in primary care clinics in a small town in the Eastern ...
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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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