Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in adults in Malawi
Malawi med. j. (Online); 18 (3), 2006
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The Professional Nurse's Experience of Dying Process of Terminal AIDS Patient
Health SA Gesondheid (Print); 11 (2), 2006
The increase in HIV/AIDS raises international concern. Statistics indicate that South Africa has the fastest increasing HIV-infection rate in the world. Secondary infections complicate the issues and could result in hospitalisation and death of terminal AIDS patients. Nurses are increasingly exposed to t...
Factors that Affect Awareness about the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Rural Lesotho
Health SA Gesondheid (Print); 11 (2), 2006
A stratified random sample of 401 participants was taken from three sites of study (Maluti; Seboche and Paray) in rural Lesotho in an attempt to study the relationship between awareness about HIV/AIDS and 55 socio-economic and demographic variables. Pearson's chi-square tests of association and logistic ...
Wastage in the health workforce: some perspectives from African countries
Hum. resour. health; 3 (6), 2006
"Background: Sub-Saharan Africa faces a human resources crisis in the health sector. Over the past two decades its population has increased substantially; with a significant rise in the disease burden due to HIV/AIDS and recurrent communicable diseases and an increased incidence of noncommunicable diseas...
Public sector nurses in Swaziland: can the downturn be reversed?
Hum. resour. health; 4 (13), 2006
Background: The lack of human resources for health (HRH) is increasingly being recognized as a major bottleneck to scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART); particularly in sub-Saharan Africa; whose societies and health systems are hardest hit by HIV/AIDS. In this case study of Swaziland; we describe th...
HIV/AIDS prevention: The role of the general practitioner in sex education for adolescents
S. Afr. fam. pract. (2004, Online); 48 (1), 2006
Strategies for the Prevention and Containment of Antibiotic Resistance
S. Afr. fam. pract. (2004, Online); 48 (1), 2006
Antibiotic resistance may emerge by antibiotic selection pressure but is perpetuated by diverse risk factors and maintained within environments as a result of poor infection control. Population-specific drug pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics also play a role. The WHO; US; UK and EU have initiated str...
XDR TB in South Africa - What lies ahead?
S. Afr. fam. pract. (2004, Online); 48 (10), 2006
The emergence of XDR TB coupled with the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS has intensified the need to identify new treatment strategies and accelerate research into antibiotics against XDR TB before the world is faced with a global public health crisis. This article gives a short overview on the important hea...
Do normal C-reactive protein levels exclude the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis?
S. Afr. fam. pract. (2004, Online); 48 (2), 2006
The prevalence of HIV amongst women with cervix cancer
S. Afr. fam. pract. (2004, Online); 48 (2), 2006