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Health provider perspectives on the implementation of the same-day-ART initiation policy in the Gauteng province of South Africa

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2021
Background In September 2016, South Africa (SA) began implementing the universal-test-and-treat (UTT) policy in hopes of attaining the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets by 2020.
Dorina Onoya   +8 more
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Looking back at paediatric HIV treatment in South Africa. My, how we have grown!

open access: yesSouthern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2021
Antiretroviral treatment has undergone major changes in the last 20 years, from monotherapy, to dual therapy and finally to triple therapy. Lately, more focus has been placed on better, more well-tolerated combinations and formulations.
Leon J. Levin   +2 more
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Beyond nutrition and physical activity: food industry shaping of the very principles of scientific integrity

open access: yesGlobalization and Health, 2021
Background There is evidence that food industry actors try to shape science on nutrition and physical activity. But they are also involved in influencing the principles of scientific integrity.
Mélissa Mialon   +4 more
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The right to health in practice [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Clinical Practice, 2011
In the current era of globalization, the world is diversifying as never before. Inequalities in economic, social, spiritual, political and civil matters characterise daily life. Estimates consider 80% of global disease burden lies in "developing" or low-income countries, based on crude calculations by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) [1].
openaire   +4 more sources

Sexual health and human rights: protecting rights to promote health [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Where sexual health refers to “a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality,” human rights provide a path to realise the highest attainable standard of sexual health for all. Jonathan Mann first described the fundamental relationship between sexual health and human rights in the early years of the global AIDS response. He
Stefan Baral   +6 more
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Hospitals, health and death in Gaza

open access: yesSocial Medicine, 2023
Human rights violations harm dignity and inflict suffering by causing loss of health and/or life.  Thus, illness and death are the most tangible and irrefutable evidence of the commission of these crimes.
Marcos Arana-Cedeño
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A Qualitative Assessment of Community Acceptability and Use of a Locally Developed Children’s Book to Increase Shared Reading and Parent-Child Interactions in Rural Zambia

open access: yesAnnals of Global Health, 2023
Introduction: Early reading interventions hold promise for increasing language and literacy development in young children and improving caregiver-child interactions.
Jeanette L. Kaiser   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maternal vaccine knowledge in low- and middle-income countries—and why it matters

open access: yesHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019
Maternal vaccines have the potential to reduce the global burden of neonatal morbidity and mortality by accessing the infant immune system before a vaccine administered in childhood would be effective.
Anna Larson Williams   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Combining transient dynamics and logistic‐asymptotic growth to study the recovery of two seabird populations after rat eradication

open access: yesPopulation Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examines the demographic dynamics of two seabird populations on Tromelin Island, 15 years after the eradication of brown rats. The results indicate that these populations are in good health and are expected to continue growing until breeding sites are saturated in about a century.
Merlène Saunier   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A survey of knowledge and attitudes relating to cervical and breast cancer among women in Ethiopia

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2018
Background Breast cancer and cervical cancer are the two leading cancers among women in Ethiopia. This study investigated knowledge and attitudes related to these two types of cancer among women in 4 zones of Ethiopia. This is the first study employing a
Bekele Chaka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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