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Adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected children attending a donor-funded clinic at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Edna Iroha --- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Nigeria Christopher Imokhuede Esezobor --- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Nigeria Chinyere Ezeaka --- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Nigeria Edamisan Olusoji Temiye --- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Nigeria Adebola Akinsulie --- Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, NigeriaThe success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) depends on a high level of adherence to a life-long regimen of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). Since the scale-up of access to ARVs in Nigeria, few studies have determined the level of adherence of ART... -
Factors affecting first-month adherence to antiretroviral therapy amongHIV-positive adults in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Dikokole Maqutu --- School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, South Africa Temesgen Zewotir --- School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, South Africa Delia North --- School of Statistics and Actuarial Science, South Africa Kogieleum Naidoo --- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), South Africa Anneke Grobler --- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), South AfricaThis study explores the influence of baseline factors on first-month adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among adults. The study design involved a review of routinely collected patient information in the CAPRISA AIDS Treatment (CAT) programme, at a rural... -
Personal coping strategies for managing the side effects of antiretroviral therapy among patients at an HIV/AIDS clinic in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Rogers Kyajja --- , Uganda Joshua Kanaabi Muliira --- , Uganda Elizabeth Ayebare --- , UgandaThe side effects of antiretroviral (ARV) medications negatively impact patients’ quality of life and adherence to treatment. This study describes the burden of side effects from ARV treatment as experienced by a sample of HIV/AIDS patients and identifies the personal... -
Treatment adherence following national antiretroviral rollout in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: AltaC. Van Dyk --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe national antiretroviral (ARV) programme in South Africa commenced in 2004. ARV drugs became readily available to all South Africans due to the concerted efforts of ‘access to all’ campaigns. This study investigates medication adherence among a sample of South... -
Correlates of highly active antiretroviral therapy adherence among urban Ethiopian clients
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Hibret Alemu --- School of Public Health, Ethiopia Damen Haile Mariam --- School of Public Health, Ethiopia AmyO Tsui --- , United States Aster Shewamare --- , EthiopiaThere has been a massive expansion of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) services in Ethiopia since 2005. To assess clients’ self-reported adherence to HAART medication, a descriptive, comparative cross-sectional study was carried out among adults receiving HAART medication at the... -
Does Medicine Need Psycho-Social Science?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SWP Mhlongo --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care Medunsa, PMH Maduna --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care Medunsa,Despite Alma Ata in 1978, the developing countries continue to divert scarce resources to multiple-story tertiary hospitals at the expense of primary health care services. No country in the world has unlimited resources with regard to budget allocation for health... -
Determinants of blood pressure control in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Polly Duncan --- School of Social and Community Medicine, United Kingdom Laura Howe --- School of Social and Community Medicine, United Kingdom Zibonele Manakusa --- Manguzi Hospital, South Africa Sarah Purdy --- School of Social and Community Medicine, United KingdomBackground: Hypertension is a common problem in South Africa and is known to be inadequately treated and poorly controlled. -
An analysis of the recreational shore fishery in the Goukamma Marine Protected Area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: P. Pradervand --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa R. Hiseman --- Western Cape Nature Conservation Board, South AfricaTen years (1993–2002) of shore fishing catch and effort data collected during routine patrols in the Goukamma Marine Protected Area in theWestern Cape Province were analysed. Of a total of 35 species recorded, the most common were backtail, Diplodus sargus... -
Taxpayers’ attitudes towards tax amnesties and compliance in South Africa: an exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: S. V. Junpath --- Faculty of Accounting & Informatics, South Africa M. S. E. Kharwa --- Faculty of Accounting & Informatics, South Africa L. J. Stainbank --- Faculty of Accounting & Informatics, South AfricaSouth Africa has seen tremendous changes since 1994, from the introduction of a new government to structural changes in tax administration. One of the challenges the government faced in the new democracy was the restructuring of the tax system. Multiple... -
Characteristics of tuberculosis patients and the evaluation of compliance to the national TB management guidelines at clinics in a rural community from Mpumalanga province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Jolly Musoke --- Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, South Africa Anita L. Michel --- Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, South AfricaThis study serves as baseline investigation into tuberculosis (TB) patient population characteristics and the compliance of clinics in rural settings to the national TB guidelines in terms of diagnosing the disease. A total of 62 TB positive patients’ files were reviewed... -
Determinants of external tax compliance costs: Evidence from South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Sharon Smulders --- Taxation Department, South Africa Madeleine Stiglingh --- Taxation Department, South Africa Riel Franzsen --- African Taxation Institute, University of Pretoria, South Africa Lizelle Fletcher --- Department of Statistics, South AfricaSmall businesses tend to rely on external service providers (tax practitioners, accountants, lawyers and bookkeepers) for assistance with their tax affairs. Payments to external service providers clearly affect a small business’s tax compliance costs. This study uses multiple regression analyses... -
Compliance with standard treatment guidelines in the management of hypertension: a review of practice of healthcare workers in Potchefstroom, North West Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Peter Rapula Siko --- Family Medicine and Rural Health, South Africa Claire van Deventer --- Family Medicine and Rural Health, South AfricaIntroduction: Hypertension is a leading lifestyle disease and major cause of morbidity and mortality in South Africa, and globally. Standard Treatment Guidelines are issued in this country to assist healthcare workers in the diagnosis and management thereof. Considering the debilitating... -
A Decision Tree and Naïve Bayes algorithm for income tax prediction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: G. V. Mabe-Madisa --- Department of Decision Sciences, South AfricaOne of the concerns regarding the tax collection system is incorrect case selection. Manual selection of audit cases by auditors (whose role is to detect individual cases of tax non-compliance) based on their expert knowledge of the taxpayers’ behaviour, cannot... -
Factors associated with adherence to ARV treatment in people living with HIV/AIDS in a rural area (Koula-Moutou) in East Gabon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Arnaud Mongo-Delis --- HIV/AIDS Outpatient Treatment Centre of Koula-Moutou, Gabon Landry E Mombo --- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Gabon Patrick Mickala --- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Gabon Wenceslas Bouassa --- HIV/AIDS Outpatient Treatment Centre of Koula-Moutou, Gabon Wilfried S Bouedy --- HIV/AIDS Outpatient Treatment Centre of Koula-Moutou, Gabon Bertrand M’batchi --- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Gabon Cyrille Bisseye --- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, GabonThe goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of socio-clinical factors on adherence to antiretroviral treatment in people living with HIV/AIDS in Koula-Moutou (a rural area of Gabon). Two adherence assessment methods based on patient declaration and compliance... -
Tax governance compliance: An exploratory study of the 50 largest Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed companies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Cara Thiart --- School of Accountancy, South AfricaIn line with current international sentiment which promotes greater transparency, the King Committee on Corporate Governance in South Africa updated its corporate governance framework through the issue of the King IV Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa, which replaced... -
Nutritional status, glycaemic control and barriers to treatment compliance among patients with type 2 diabetes attending public primary health clinics in Maseru, Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Louise van den Berg --- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, South Africa Mohlakotsana Mokhehle --- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, South Africa Jacques Raubenheimer --- Department of Biostatistics, South AfricaObjectives: To evaluate the nutritional status, glycaemic control and barriers to treatment compliance of outpatients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) attending two public primary health clinics in Maseru, Lesotho. -
Nurturing forest resources in the Vhavenda community, South Africa: factors influencing non-compliance behaviour of local people to state conservation rules
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Mulugheta G Araia --- Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, South Africa Paxie W Chirwa --- Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, South AfricaThis comparative study analysed the compliance behaviour of local communities towards culturally protected areas and state-protected indigenous forests. Interviews were conducted with 135 households from four villages. Data analysis was done using non-parametric tests. All villages did not significantly differ... -
Transformational leadership and management safety practices: Their role in the relationship between work pressure and compliance with safety work behaviour in a health-care sector industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Fabian O. Ugwu --- Department of Psychology, Nigeria Adeline N. Idike --- Department of Political Science, Nigeria Okechukwu E. Ibiam --- Department of Political Science, Nigeria Francis A. Akwara --- Department of Political Science, Nigeria Cornelius O. Okorie --- Department of Political Science, NigeriaThis study examined both the direct and interactive effects on employee compliance to safety work behaviour of perceived work pressure, transformational leadership behaviour, and organisation management safety practices. Study participants were 208 nurses from public hospitals in South-eastern, Nigeria. The... -
VAT lottery incentives: An opportunity for South Africa?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Manda Burger --- , South Africa Anculien Schoeman --- , South AfricaSome countries have introduced receipt-based tax lotteries (value-added tax (VAT) lotteries) in recent years in an effort to improve tax compliance. This acknowledges that the traditional method of tax compliance enforcement through audits, fines and penalties alone may no longer... -
The taxation of gap cover policies for individual taxpayers in South Africa: a critical analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Petro Gerber --- , South Africa Cecileen Greeff --- , South AfricaGap cover policies cover the shortfall between medical scheme benefits and the rates the service providers charge and are therefore used by individuals in South Africa to supplement payments of medical expenditure not covered by private medical schemes. Little information... -
Barriers and facilitators to patients' adherence to antiretroviral treatment in Zambia: a qualitative study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Nawa Sanjobo --- Copperbelt University, Jan C Frich --- Research Unit for General Practice, University of Oslo, Atle Fretheim --- Preventive and International Health Care Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services, NorwayPatients' adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important for effective medical treatment of HIV/AIDS. We conducted a qualitative interview study in the Copperbelt Province of Zambia in 2006. The aim of the study was to explore patients' and health care... -
The road towards effective governance and management of marine protected areas in South Africa: evolving policies, paradigms and processes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SP Kirkman --- , South Africa P Kowalski --- , South Africa BQ Mann --- Oceanographic Research Institute (ORI), South Africa GM Branch --- University of Cape Town, South Africa MG van der Bank --- South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa KJ Sink --- Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa P Fielding --- , South Africa JB Mann-Lang --- Oceanographic Research Institute (ORI), South Africa MC Pfaff --- University of Cape Town, South Africa D Kotsedi --- , South Africa R Adams --- , South Africa S Dlulisa --- , South Africa SL Petersen --- , MadagascarThe efficacy of marine protected areas (MPAs) depends on their governance and management. We review their history in South Africa and recognise four periods. Period 1 (1964–1994) provided initial protection but was based on exclusionary, preservationist policies, was ad hoc... -
Quantifying the tax compliance costs of individual taxpayers in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Karen Stark --- University of South Africa, South Africa Sharon Smulders --- University of South Africa, South Africa Elza Odendaal --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThe aim of the study was to quantify the total tax compliance costs (TCC) of individual taxpayers in South Africa for the 2017 and 2018 years of assessment as no studies were found that comprehensively quantified these costs in South... -
Farm operation injuries among cocoa famers in Ghana: Investigating the causes, choice of treatment and compliance to safety standards
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Gifty-Maria Sangber-Dery --- KNUST-Kumasi, Ghana Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum --- KNUST-Kumasi, Ghana Fred Ankuyi --- KNUST-Kumasi, Ghana John-Eudes Andivi Bakang --- KNUST-Kumasi, Ghana Nathaniel Nii Lartey Lartey --- University of Michigan, USA Ernest Laryea Okorley --- University of Cape Coast, Ghana Ebenezer Osei Jones --- Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Development, Ghana David Boansi --- KNUST-Kumasi, GhanaThis study investigated the socioeconomic factors that predispose cocoa farmers to farm operation injuries, their choice of treatment and compliance with recommended safety standards. It used the multi-stage sampling technique to collect data from 400 cocoa farmers. Descriptive statistics, the... -
Compliance with goodwill impairment disclosure and reasons provided by management: Evidence from South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: E. Louw --- University of Pretoria, South Africa J. H. Hall --- University of Pretoria, South Africa L. M. Brümmer --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaPurpose: The aim of this article is to investigate compliance with the IFRS disclosure requirements regarding goodwill impairment testing in the South African setting, using JSE-listed firms as a sample. The article considers the explanatory strategies used by management to... -
Do we have the tools for achieving distributive tax justice?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: James Alm --- Tulane University, USAPurpose: How can tax policies serve as a tool to promote distributive tax justice? The purpose of this study is to discuss several policies that research shows are both feasible and effective in achieving distributive tax justice. -
An exploratory study on supplier acceptance of and engagement in a national tax lottery designed to improve tax compliance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Anculien Schoeman --- University of Pretoria, Department of Taxation, Republic of South Africa -
Persuasion in compliance-gaining messages in Milubi’s play Ndi muṱodzi muni?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mawande Dlali --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Masindi Sadiki --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaThis article explores compliance-gaining messages in interpersonal interactions that show persuasion by critically analysing discourse excerpts from the Tshivenḓa play Ndi muṱodzi muni? (‘What kind of tear is this?’). The play displays how communication with goal-attainment intentions occur in Tshivenḓa... -
Comparing seismic survey mitigation regulations: lessons for South Africa from international frameworks
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: J Purdon --- Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa MJ Somers --- University of Pretoria, South Africa FW Shabangu --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Y Doh --- , France J Scheun --- Tshwane University of Technology, South AfricaUnderwater seismic surveys generate high-intensity, low-frequency noise that can negatively affect a range of marine fauna. As a result, countries have implemented mitigation regulations to reduce the potential impacts of this activity. This study examines seismic survey mitigation regulations from... -
A comparative analysis of compliance with HIV/AIDS clinical care indicators and treatment outcomes: A case study of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Tambwe Willy Muzumbukilwa --- School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Riziki Ghislain Manimani --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Rajesh Vikram Vagiri --- School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Manimbulu Nlooto --- School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaBackground: Significant advancements have been made in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) diagnosis and treatment, yet progress in quality care remains limited. To address this gap, 88 quality indicators for clinical HIV/AIDS care were evaluated. This... -
Listening to the voices of Namibia’s recreational anglers to improve shore-based fishery resource use and management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: NMC Gusha --- University of Namibia, Namibia AM Veii --- University of Namibia, Namibia NM Nghipangelwa --- University of Namibia, Namibia AS Shikongo --- University of Namibia, Namibia CS Bova --- Rhodes University, South Africa A Kanyimba --- University of Namibia, Namibia GH Engelhard --- Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), United Kingdom K Hyder --- Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), United Kingdom B Snow --- Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), United Kingdom WM Potts --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South Africa MR Wilhelm --- University of Namibia, NamibiaIn most fisheries, the traditional centralised, top-down management approach is still prevalent despite its limited success. While a bottom-up ecosystem-based approach is increasingly preferred, a shift in focus from purely ecological considerations to a socio-ecological system approach is necessary. The... -
An evaluation of tax compliance among small businesses
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Mphagahlele O. Ndlovu --- University of, South Africa Daniel P. Schutte --- North-West University, South Africa -
Encouraging tax compliance of small business owners in South Africa through nudging
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Nompumelelo Monageng --- University of Pretoria, South Africa
