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Assessing the preparedness of primary healthcare facilities for the implementation of universal test and treat in uThukela District, South Africa: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Public Health
Background The availability of HIV guidelines, infrastructure, essential medicines and diagnostic tests for HIV services is a prerequisite to effective universal test-and-treat (UTT) services.
Edward Nicol, Debbie Bradshaw, Wisdom Basera, Mbuzeleni Hlongwa, Eunice Turawa, Thubelihle Mathole   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

HIV/AIDS profile in the provinces of South Africa, 2002

Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2003
No abstract available.
Debbie Bradshaw
doaj   +1 more source

The importance of including manner of (injury) death on the death notification form

South African Medical Journal, 2023
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P Groenewald, R Matzopoulos, E Afonso, D Bradshaw   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evidence‐Informed Multidisciplinary Consensus Guidance for the Psychosocial Care of Adolescents With High‐Risk Cancer: Recommendations From the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom, Dorella Scarponi, Giulia Zucchetti, Teresa Perillo, Maria Montanaro, Elisa Marconi, Chiara Rutigliano, Paolo Colavero, Paola Quarello, Marina Bertolotti, Monica Cellini, Carlo Clerici, Maurizio Mascarin, Francesca Bomben, Andrea Ferrari, the expert workgroup   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

The burden of disease and injury in the United States 1996. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: Burden of disease studies have been implemented in many countries using the Disability-Adjusted Life Year (DALY) to assess major health problems.
Bulzacchelli, Maria T, Bulzacchelli, Maria T., Kreiser, Jessica Gaber, Joshua A Salomon, Hogan Mollie, Niels Tomijima, McKenna, Matthew T., Murray, Christopher, Jessica Gaber Kreiser, Salomon, Joshua A., Ezzati, Majid, McKenna, Matthew T, Christopher JL Murray, Hogan, Mollie, Gaber Kreiser Jessica, Meghna Majmudar, Stephen Begg, Begg Stephen, Maria T Bulzacchelli, Majmudar Meghna, Salomon, Joshua, Murray Christopher JL, Matthew T McKenna, Majid Ezzati, Gaber Kreiser, Jessica, Shahul Ebrahim, Bulzacchelli Maria T, Michaud, Catherine M, Majmudar, Meghna, Mollie Hogan, Ebrahim, Shahul, Michaud, Catherine M ., Catherine M Michaud, Ezzati Majid, Tomijima Niels, Michaud, Catherine, Murray, Christopher J. L., Michaud Catherine M, Tomijima, Niels, Murray, Christopher JL, Salomon, Joshua A, Ebrahim Shahul, Bulzacchelli, Maria, McKenna, Matthew, Begg, Stephen, Salomon Joshua A, McKenna Matthew T   +46 more
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A primary health care Re-Engineering approach to enhance PrEP initiation and adherence among high-risk, sexually active adolescents and young adults in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

BMC Public Health
Objective This study explores the decentralisation of PrEP services through primary health care (PHC) re-engineering structures such as schools, pharmacies, youth zones, community halls, and mobile clinics to improve PrEP uptake and adherence among ...
Thubelihle Mathole, Jeannine Uwimana Nicol, Mbuzeleni Hlongwa, Eunice Turawa, Wisdom Basera, Noluntu Funani, Edward Nicol   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Further evidence of misclassification of the injury deaths in South Africa: When will the barriers to accurate injury death statistics be removed?

South African Medical Journal, 2023
Background. Contrary to the World Health Organization’s internationally recommended medical certificate of cause of death, the South African (SA) death notification form (DNF) does not allow for the reporting of the manner of death to permit ...
P Groenewald, N Kallis, C Holmgren, T Glass, A Anthony, P Maud, Y Akhalwaya, E Afonso, I Niewoudt, L J Martin, C de Vaal, M Cheyip, D Morof, M Prinsloo, R Matzopoulos, D Bradshaw   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian modelling of population trends in alcohol consumption provides empirically based country estimates for South Africa

Population Health Metrics, 2021
Background Alcohol use has widespread effects on health and contributes to over 200 detrimental conditions. Although the pattern of heavy episodic drinking independently increases the risk for injuries and transmission of some infectious diseases, long ...
Annibale Cois, Richard Matzopoulos, Victoria Pillay-van Wyk, Debbie Bradshaw   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating the changing burden of disease attributable to high systolic blood pressure in South Africa for 2000, 2006 and 2012

South African Medical Journal, 2022
Background. Ongoing quantification of trends in high blood pressure and the consequent disease impact are crucial for monitoring and decision-making. This is particularly relevant in South Africa (SA) where hypertension is well-established.
B Nojilana, N Peer, N Abdelatif, A Cois, A E Schutte, D Labadarios, E B Turuwa, R A Roomaney, O F Awotiwon, I Neethling, R A Roomaney, V Pillay-van Wyk, D Bradshaw   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source