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(BioMed Central, 2020-08-24)BACKGROUND : Caledonian Stadium, the main mass temporary shelter for homeless people in the City of Tshwane, was created as a local response to the imperatives of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) National State ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-05)BACKGROUND: The Community Oriented Substance Use Programme (COSUP) is the first publicly funded, community-based programmatic response to the use of illegal substances in South Africa. It is founded on a systems thinking, ...
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(South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2013)OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to explore healthcare professionals’ (HCPs) perceptions about patients who had been assaulted, who consult under the influence of alcohol, and to make them aware of their ...
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(BioMed Central, 2020-09)BACKGROUND: People who use drugs including people who inject drugs (PWUD/ID), sex workers (SWs) and men who have sex with men (MSM) are at increased risk of HIV and viral hepatitis infection. Limited epidemiological data ...
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(BioMed Central, 2020-04-15)BACKGROUND : Moral conservatism within government and communities has resulted in a reluctance to support the provision of opioid agonist therapy for people with opioid use disorders in South Africa. In April 2017, South ...
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(Unisa Press, 2017)This scoping review attempts to contextualise the current state of research regarding responding to co-morbid depression and HIV in primary healthcare, identify the gaps in research and develop appropriate recommendations. ...
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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, 2020-08)BACKGROUND. Congestion at health facilities poses the risk of extensive spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV- 2) to patients at high risk for severe illness and death due to this infection. ...
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(South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care, 2013)OBJECTIVES: This study explored major factors that influenced staff motivation at a district hospital in South Africa following hospital reforms and comparison of these factors across the two main staff categories. DESIGN: ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-03)BACKGROUND: Facilitation and collaboration differentiates person-centred practice (PcP) from biomedical practice. In PcP, a person-centred consultation requires clinicians to juggle three processes: facilitation, clinical ...
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(Africa Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport and Dance, 2015-12)Chronic pain is often associated with impaired muscle strength and limited physical activity and performance, resulting in impaired physical functioning. This study aimed to determine whether voluntary participation in a ...
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Hypertensive patients’ knowledge and practices on lifestyle modification in Extension 6, Middelburg (AOSIS, 2022-08-24)BACKGROUND : Hypertension (HTN) is one of the most common chronic diseases affecting the majority of patients worldwide, including in South Africa. The control of HTN and prevention of complications are major challenges ...
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The impact of chronic pain on the quality of life of patients attending primary healthcare clinics (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014)OBJECTIVES: The objective was to study the nature and magnitude of the impact of pain on the quality of life of patients with chronic pain. DESIGN: This was a descriptive, cross-sectional quantitative study. SETTING AND ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2007-03)INTRODUCTION: Investing in health is recommended for economic growth and the reduction of inequity in developing countries. Family planning is one such investment that benefits women and children. But resource-constrained ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2008-03)BACKGROUD: This article reports on a study that explored the impact of diarrhoea in babies on the quality of life of low-income households. Diarrhoeal diseases continue to be an important cause of illness and death worldwide. ...
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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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(Frontiers Media, 2021-03-02)Stigma is a mark of shame, disgrace, or disapproval which results in an individual being rejected, discriminated against, and excluded fromsociety (1). Stigma toward individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) affects ...
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(BioMed Central, 2014-03-07)BACKGROUND: Antiretroviral drug resistance is becoming increasingly common with the expansion of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment programmes in high prevalence settings. Genotypic resistance testing could ...
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(BioMed Central, 2018-09-14)BACKGROUND : South Africa’s tuberculosis burden is the third highest globally and is closely associated with the country’s devastating HIV epidemic. The separation of HIV and TB services in primary healthcare services in ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-08)BACKGROUND : As oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) becomes the standard of prevention globally, its potential effect on HIV incidence in clinical trials of new prevention interventions is unknown, particularly for trials ...
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