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Sources of knowledge empowerment amongst pregnant women with TB disease: A qualitative study in South Africa

open access: yesHealth Expectations, Volume 27, Issue 1, February 2024.
Abstract Background Providing relevant knowledge to empower all pregnant women diagnosed and nondiagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) is essential worldwide. Proper dissemination of health information for pregnant women could assist in preventing TB complications amongst women and babies.
Mulondo Seani Adrinah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Explaining the uncertainty: understanding small-scale farmers’ cultural beliefs and reasoning of drought causes in Gaza Province, Southern Mozambique [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper explores small-scale farmers’ cultural beliefs about the causes of drought events and the reasoning behind their beliefs. Cultural beliefs vary across countries, regions, communities, and social groups; this paper takes the case of farmers ...
Salite, Daniela
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Perceived Value and Purchase Influence of YouTube Beauty Vlog Content Amongst Generation Y Female Consumers

open access: yesHuman Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Globally and in South Africa, the beauty industry, which includes high‐involvement products such as skincare, fragrance, makeup, and haircare products, is experiencing robust growth, something partially attributed to the rapidly growing influence of beauty social media influencers.
Ayesha L. Bevan-Dye, Mahmaod Alrawad
wiley   +1 more source

Levels and Determinants of DDT and DDE Exposure in the VHEMBE Cohort. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
BackgroundAlthough indoor residual spraying (IRS) is an effective tool for malaria control, its use contributes to high insecticide exposure in sprayed communities and raises concerns about possible unintended health effects.ObjectiveThe Venda Health ...
Barr, Dana Boyd   +7 more
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Experience of Burden of Care and Support Needs of Informal Caregivers of Persons With Severe Mental Disorders in Rural South Africa: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesMental Illness, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Severe mental disorders are chronic and disabling conditions marked by serious functional impairments. As a result, persons with severe mental disorders require long‐term care from their family, relatives, or friends. Providing care is accompanied by negative experiences that result in distress for the caregivers, and as such, they require support to ...
Olindah Silaule   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Exclusion in South African E-Governance

open access: yesDigital Policy Studies
Digital platforms offer new avenues for public service access, yet indigenous communities like Xitsonga speakers in South Africa face exclusion due to language barriers in e-government and ICT tools.
Janine Shout Ramothwa
doaj   +1 more source

Probing Proverbial Propositions in Xitsonga Discourse in Vutlhari bya Vatsonga Machangana and Tinhlungu ta Rixaka Dictionary.

open access: yesRainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture
Vatsonga largely rely on proverbial expressions and other forms of figurative language in their daily discourse to convey various messages and lessons.
Ndzalama Maluleke
doaj   +1 more source

Variables associated with Grade R English Additional Language acquisition in multilingual rural Mpumalanga schools

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Education, 2016
In a previous study Moodley, Kritzinger and Vinck (2014) found that formal English Additional Language (EAL) instruction contributed significantly better to listening and speaking skills in Grade R learners, than did a play-based approach. The finding in
P Moodley, A Kritzinger, B Vinck
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade reading in agglutinating African languages

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Childhood Education, 2020
Background: Reading development in agglutinating African languages is a relatively under-researched area. While numerous studies highlight the low comprehension levels among learners reading in African languages in South Africa, little has been done to ...
Nicholas Spaull   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Impact of Modernization on Fertility: The Case of Mozambique [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world. It also has one of the world's highest birth rates. Until recently there has been virtually no way to study Mozambique's high fertility because of the civil war.
Ceccato, V.A.
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