Odendaal, H J Brink, L T Nel, D G Carstens, E Jager de, M Potter, M Plessis du, C Groenewald, C A
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Background. Although women are informed about the dangers of drinking and smoking during pregnancy when they book for antenatal care, it is uncertain whether this advice is accepted, or whether attempts are made to apply it in subsequent pregnancies. Objectives. To assess how pregnant women respond to the advice to refrain from smoking and drinking...
Odendaal, Hein J Kruger, Mariana Botha, Matthys H
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Obasa, A E Singh, S Chivunze, E Burgess, T Masiye, F Mtande, T Ochieng, J Chalwe, V Mokgatla, B Rennie, S
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As COVID-19 spreads rapidly across Africa, causing havoc to economies and disruption to already fragile healthcare systems, it is becoming clear that despite standardised global health strategies, national and local government responses must be tailored to their individual settings. Some African countries have adopted stringent measures such as nat...
Goga, A Feucht, U Zar, H J Vanker, A Wiysonge, C S McKerrow, N Wright, C Y Loveday, M Odendaal, W Ramokolo, V
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Although the neonatal mortality rate in South Africa (SA) has remained stagnant at 12 deaths per 1 000 live births, the infant and under-5 mortality rates have significantly declined since peaking in 2003. Policy changes that have influenced this decline include policies to prevent vertical HIV transmission, earlier treatment of children living wit...
Mathews, C Goga, A Loveday, M Zembe, W Daviaud, E Siegfried, N Lewin, S
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Health policy and systems research (HPSR) guides health system reforms and is essential for South Africa (SA)'s progress towards universal coverage of high-quality healthcare. For HPSR evidence to inform and strengthen health systems, it needs to flow efficiently between evidence producers, evidence synthesisers, evidence processers and disseminato...
Goga, A Slogrove, A Wedderburn, C J Feucht, U Wessels, J Ramokolo, V Bhana, A Du Plessis, N Green, R J Pillay, Y
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Over the past three decades, tremendous global progress in preventing and treating paediatric HIV infection has been achieved. This paper highlights the emerging health challenges of HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) children and the ageing population of children living with HIV (CLHIV), summarises programmatic opportunities for care, and highlights cur...
Pattinson, R C Hlongwane, T M A G Vannevel, V
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The major causes of maternal and perinatal deaths have been well described in South Africa. These causes are related to HIV infection, placental insufficiency and intrapartum asphyxia. The health system failures that most commonly lead to preventable mortality are related to managing hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP), detecting fetal growth...
Peer, N George, C Kengne, A-P
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Hypertension prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is high, is rising and has emerged as the most prevalent cardiovascular disease risk factor. Research is required to provide evidence-based findings to prioritise hypertension prevention and control. This systematic review aims to describe the distribution of and trends in scientific outputs on hy...
Pillay-van Wyk, V Msemburi, W Dorrington, R E Laubscher, R Groenewald, Pamela Bradshaw, Debbie
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South Africa (SA) has one of the largest HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world and the most extensive antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme globally, which was rolled out from 2004. This paper reports the trends in HIV/AIDS mortality pre and post ART rollout in SA. Methods. Vital registration cause-of-death data from Statistics South Africa were adjuste...
Maharaj, R Kissoon, S Lakan, V Kheswa, N
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A high-level review was conducted of the literature pertaining to the challenges and opportunities for eliminating malaria on the African continent. Although malaria mortality and morbidity are on the decline, the disease remains one of public health importance. Africa has invariably borne the brunt of the disease, recording the highest number of c...
