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AIDS as chronic illness: epidemiological transition and health care in south-eastern Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Julie LivingstonThis paper suggests that people in south-eastern Botswana experience the AIDS epidemic as part of a recent epidemiological transition in which rates of chronic debilitating illness have risen, even as the degree of acute infectious disease has fallen (HIV/AIDS aside)... -
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of HIV/AIDS among traditional birth attendants and herbal practitioners in Lagos State, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ahmed Omowunmi Odunukwe Nkiru Raheem Yekeen Efienemokwu Chinyere Junaid Muinat Adesesan Segun Ogedengbe Olasubomi Harry Tekena Salako LateefRecognising the widespread role of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) and herbal practitioners (HPs) in health care at community level in Nigeria, we set out to assess their knowledge, attitudes and practices in relation to HIV infection and prevention. Questionnaires were... -
On the virgin cleansing myth: gendered bodies, AIDS and ethnomedicine
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala --- , South AfricaThe belief that HIV/AIDS can be cured as a result of having sex with a virgin has been identified as a possible factor in the rape of babies and children in South Africa. While the prevalence of this myth has... -
‘Every disease has its cure’: faith and HIV therapies in Islamic northern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jack Ume Tocco --- Department of Anthropology, United StatesNorthern Nigeria has one of the highest levels of HIV prevalence among societies that are predominantly Muslim. In the last decade the region has experienced marked expansion of religiously-oriented healing practices following the formal adoption of Islamic sharia law. Since... -
Evaluating adverse drug reactions among HAART patients in a resource-constrained province of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Viloshini Krishna Manickum --- School of Health Sciences, South Africa Fatima Suleman --- School of Health Sciences, South AfricaThe high prevalence of HIV in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, has greatly increased the demand for antiretroviral therapy (ART), resulting in an exponential increase in the number of patients initiated on highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART). However, little information about... -
‘If the doctors see that they don't know how to cure the disease, they say it's AIDS’: How older women in rural South Africa make sense of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Enid Schatz --- Department of Health Sciences/Department of Women's & Gender Studies, 535 Clark Hall, Leah Gilbert --- Department of Sociology, South Africa Courtney McDonald --- Department of Psychology and Sociology, USASouth Africa, like other sub-Saharan African countries, is in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Older women, here defined as aged 60 years and older, while at lower risk of infection than those aged 20–50, are amongst those deeply ‘affected’... -
A Disruptive Innovation Model for Indigenous Medicine Research: A Nigerian Perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Michael O.S. Afolabi --- Centre for Healthcare Ethics, USANon-availability of affordable medicines remains a recurring theme in the healthcare sector of countries in the South where it hampers drug compliance and creates an ambience for continued morbidity and mortality. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa have attempted to remedy this... -
The anaesthetic management of microgravity-exposed individuals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: J Van Der Walt --- Department of Anaesthesia, AH Ernst --- Department of Anaesthesia,Mankind's imminent occupation of low Earth orbit beyond that of a scientific outpost and daring engineering nature that will land astronauts on Mars, will pose significant challenges to anaesthesia providers. The increased number of space tourists and workers who spend... -
Evidence-based medicine: Do we need gelatins and starches?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: AG Parrish --- Department of Internal Medicine,For more than a decade, systematic reviews have questioned the value of colloids in fluid resuscitation. A Cochrane review that was updated in early 2012 found no mortality advantage relative to crystalloids across a range of conditions for gelatins [risk... -
Food and fluids in dying patients: some thoughts after the death of a patient
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: D Cameron --- Department of Family Medicine,Death is inevitable but modern medicine has the skill and the facilities to delay its arrival. A case is made out for a radical rethink of the approach to the use of fluids and food in the terminal dying patient... -
Clinical efficacy, efficiency and outcomes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: N Ebrahim --- Dept. of Radiography, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Dept. of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, South Africa -
A comparison of the referral rates of trainees and trainers in an academic teaching practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: RF Ingle --- Department of Family Medicine, JB Levin --- Medical Research Council of South Africa,Objective: To compare the referral rates of trainee and trainer family physicians. -
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... -
Usefulness of patient studies in learning family medicine at postgraduate level
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SN Jaffri --- Department of Family Medicine, GJO Marincowitz --- Department of Family Medicine, NHB Malete --- Department of Family Medicine,Background: The Master's in Family Medicine (M Fam Med) is a postgraduate training programme in family medicine at Medunsa. M Fam Med students have to write patient studies as part of requirements to complete their degree. This research was undertaken... -
“DOCTOR! Go for a course in HR Management”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SAH Moosa --- , ID Couper --- University of the Witwatersrand,A key principle of family medicine is the management of resources. Human Resource Management (HRM) underpins other principles of family medicine. It is not only the doctor but also the staff around him or her who enables and responds to... -
An unsuccessful resuscitation: The families' and doctors' experiences of the unexpected death of a patient
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: A Isaacs --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, RJ Mash --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care,Background: The objective was to elicit families' experience of the death of a family member at the Elsies River Community Health Centre, their feelings towards the staff involved in the resuscitation and their opinions about how things could be improved... -
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): How to Appraise an Article?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: N Ebrahim --- Dept. of Radiography, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Dept. of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, South Africa -
The process of becoming an EB practitioner
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: N Ebrahim --- Dept. of Radiography, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Dept. of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, South Africa -
Family Medicine Training: Ideas from Belgium
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SAH Moosa --- University of Witwatersrand, HH Conradie --- University of Stellenbosch, G Morris --- Nelson Mandela Medical School, C Van Deventer --- Unversity of Witwatersrand, M Van Rooyen --- University of Pretoria, A Derese --- Centre for Education Development, Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, J De Maeseneer --- Head of Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Chairman Interuniversity Co-operation for Family Medicine training in Flanders, -
Potential cost savings from generic medicines—protecting the Prescribed Minimum Benefits
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: E Nicolosi --- Department of Therapeutics and Medicines Management, A Gray --- Department of Therapeutics and Medicines Management,Background: South Africa has followed a pro-generic policy since the introduction of the National Drug Policy in 1996. The selection processes in the public and private sectors have, however, remained largely disconnected, and at times contradictory. Medicines provided outside of... -
Profile of research methodology and statistics training of undergraduate medical students at South African universities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: J Dommisse --- Department of Biostatistics, G Joubert --- Department of Biostatistics,Background: Medical practitioners need to have knowledge of statistics and research principles, especially with the increasing emphasis on evidence-based medicine. The aim of this study was to determine the profile of research methodology and statistics training of undergraduate medical students... -
Confidentiality and Privacy: What is the difference?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Knapp D van Bogaert --- Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Health Sciences, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and PHC, Faculty of Health Sciences,In the practice of medicine, the idea of confidentiality is articulated in almost all its oaths, guidelines and codes. Dating at least as far back to the Hippocratics, swearing that “… What I may see or hear in the course... -
Family medicine, primary health care and HIV medicine—a ‘new’ clinical speciality and its role in the South African HIV pandemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: DT Hagemeister --- Drakenstein subdistrict, Western Cape and Division for Family Medicine and Primary Care,Context: Because of the extent of the HIV pandemic, but also due to some specific historical conditions, HIV medicine has evolved as a field of its own in South African medicine. With the massive scale of the roll-out of antiretroviral... -
Personality profile and coping resources of family medicine vocational trainees at the University of Limpopo, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: D Pretorius --- Department of Family Medicine and PHC, WJ Basson --- Department of Psychology, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and PHC,Background: Doctors are exposed to various stress factors in their personal and family lives, as well as in the workplace. Stress inherent to the responsibilities and challenges of the medical field may become a health hazard and threaten the well-being... -
Complementary and alternative medicine for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: An Eastern Cape study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: S Snyman --- Department of Pharmacy, South Africa I Truter --- Department of Pharmacy, South Africa -
Community-based education for registrars in family medicine at Walter Sisulu University
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: P Yogeswaran --- Department of Family Medicine, D O'Mahony --- Department of Family Medicine, K Mfenyana --- Faculty of Health Sciences, -
Use of traditional medicine versus use of the community-based primary health care clinic by the San community at Platfontein
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: GF De Jager --- Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, EAM Prinsloo --- Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, G Joubert --- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences,Introduction: Working amongst a San community led to the observation that, despite the availability of modern healthcare, high mortality and morbidity associated with disease, such as dehydration, malnutrition and tuberculosis, still prevailed. This study aimed to determine how traditional beliefs... -
Functional medicine: how dysfunction leads to disease
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: B Brom --- ,Functional medicine is part of integrative medicine. There are three phases in the movement from health to disease. The first phase concerns lifestyle and how poor lifestyle choices move the system into increasing dysfunction. If the changes are rapid and... -
Measles in HIV-infected children in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: AM Sheikh --- Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence, Botswana P Patel --- Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence, Botswana L Scherzer --- Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence, Botswana CP Neumann --- Baylor College of Medicine, United States of America G Anabwani --- Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence, Botswana MA Tolle --- Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence, BotswanaIn recent years, southern Africa has experienced a widespread measles outbreak. Given the high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence in the region, the particular features of measles in HIV-infected individuals are of interest to clinicians, especially as regards children, as... -
Thoughts on the state of family medicine in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: I Couper --- Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, S Fehrsen --- Enablemed (Pty) Ltd, J Hugo --- Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, -
A qualitative exploratory study: Using medical students' experiences to review the role of a rural clinical attachment in KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: PD Mc Neill --- Facilitator at the Centre for Rural Health, LM Campbell --- School of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal,Objectives: There are challenges when it is considered that a main role of a rural clinical attachment for medical students is to encourage students to return after graduation to practise in rural areas. This view may lead to the relative... -
Agomelatine: a review for general practitioners
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: K Outhoff --- Department of Pharmacology,Agomelatine is a novel melatonergic antidepressant that restores disrupted biological rhythms, essentially by resetting the circadian clock. Two different, non-monoaminergic, and possibly synergistic pathways, appear to be involved in its mechanism of action. Agomelatine is a melatonin 1 (MT1) and... -
Outcomes for family medicine postgraduate training in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: I Couper --- Department of Family Medicine, B Mash --- Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, S Smith --- Department of Family Medicine, B Schweitzer --- Division of Family Medicine, -
An evaluation of the assessment tool used for extensive mini-dissertations in the Master's Degree in Family Medicine, University of the Free State
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: H Brits --- Department of Family Medicine, J Bezuidenhout --- Office of the Dean, WJ Steinberg --- Department of Family Medicine, G Joubert --- Department of Biostatistics Faculty of Health Sciences,Background: Family Medicine became a speciality in South Africa in 2007. Postgraduate studies in Family Medicine changed from part-time Master of Family Medicine (MFamMed) to a full-time Master of Medicine (Family Medicine) [MMed(Fam)] degree, with changes in the curriculum and... -
A focus group study on primary health care in Johannesburg Health District: “We are just pushing numbers”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: S Moosa --- Department of Family Medicine, A Gibbs --- Department of Family Medicine,Objectives: South Africa is striving towards a strong primary healthcare system. Since 2007, departments of family medicine have been established in Gauteng to improve quality of care through improved access to doctors, the coordination of health services and better referrals... -
Psychiatric Patients’ Evaluation of the Efficacy of Obeah vs. Western Medicine in Treating Their Mental Illness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Caryl C.B. James [AN0001]This study sought to determine any potential benefits in psychiatric patients’ use of traditional medicine in their treatment. Participants were 51 Jamaican patients who self-reported on concurrent use of western and alternative medicine. They completed the Jamaican Healthcare Perception Questionnaire... -
A review of polymeric biomaterials research for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications at the Centre for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research, Mauritius
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Archana Bhaw-Luximon --- Centre of Excellence for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research, Mauritius Roubeena Jeetah --- Centre of Excellence for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research, Mauritius Nowsheen Goonoo --- Centre of Excellence for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research, Mauritius Anisha Veeren --- Centre of Excellence for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research, Mauritius Yeshma Jugdawa --- Centre of Excellence for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research, Mauritius Dhanjay Jhurry --- Centre of Excellence for Biomedical and Biomaterials Research, MauritiusThe purpose of this review article is to showcase research in the area of polymeric nanobiomaterials and nanocarriers for drug delivery, especially on the economically fast-growing African continent where research in the field of advanced polymers and nanomedicine can play... -
Exploring a regional pharmaceutical innovation network as a possible solution to the market failure in the innovation of essential medicines for tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Thaddeus Manu --- Centre for Commercial Law Studies, UKFrom an economic reasoning perspective, pharmaceutical research and development operates as a pure market activity. This viewpoint suggests innovations are receptive to questions of commerce. It is on this basis the pharmaceutical industry has undervalued the innovation of medicines for... -
Complementary therapy in atopic eczema: the latest systematic reviews
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Yasmeen Thandar --- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Heath Sciences, South Africa Julia Botha --- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South Africa Anisa Mosam --- Department of Dermatology, South AfricaComplementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are widely used for atopic eczema (AE) with user estimates as high as 63%. Despite the availability of effective conventional therapies, the chronic nature of AE and concerns about long-term steroid use lead many patients... -
Other health-seeking behaviour of HIV and AIDS patients visiting private sector doctors in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Panjasaram Naidoo --- Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South AfricaObjectives: Although allopathic medicines are used in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), many HIV-infected patients visit alternate medical and health practitioners, and take alternative therapies for their HIV condition. This study was conducted to confirm whether or not... -
Traditional medicine use and the anaesthetist
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: GD Nethathe --- Chris Hani Baragwanath Intensive Care Unit, South Africa SL Russell --- Department of Anesthesia, CanadaThis review considers traditional medicine, with an emphasis on traditional African medicine and its influence on perioperative care. Western and Eastern herbal remedies are widely used. The paucity of good quality evidence concerning these medicinal products has led to only... -
Self-efficacy, medication beliefs and adherence to antiretroviral therapy by patients attending a health facility in Pretoria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Adegoke Adefolalu --- Department of Health Studies, South Africa Zerish Nkosi --- Department of Health Studies, South Africa Steve Olorunju --- Biostatistics Unit, South Africa Palesa Masemola --- , South AfricaBackground: Self-efficacy and medication beliefs are known factors that influence adherence to treatment in chronic medical conditions. We carried out a cross-sectional study on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with the aim of determining the predictive relationship between these two... -
The self-reported learning needs of primary care doctors in South Africa: a descriptive survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Z Malan --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa R Cooke --- Centre for Rural Health, South Africa R Mash --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South AfricaBackground: Strengthening primary health care in South Africa is a prerequisite for the successful introduction of National Health Insurance. Primary care doctors from both the public and private sectors are an essential contributor to achieving this goal. In order to... -
Conditions frequently self-treated with herbal remedies by patients visiting a tertiary hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: André Marais --- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, South Africa Vanessa Steenkamp --- Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, South Africa Wim J Du Plooy --- Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, South AfricaBackground: Herbal medications are used worldwide for a variety of diseases and conditions. Patients often elect not to disclose their herbal use history, or health care practitioners fail to enquire about specific alternative therapy. The aim of this study was... -
Herbal and alternative medicine: the impact on anesthesia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: JM Dippenaar --- Department of Maxillo-Facial-Oral Surgery, South AfricaThe use of herbal and alternative therapies is increasing all over the developed as well as the developing world. As pharmacological data on drug interactions involving herbal therapies becomes available, it is important to be familiar with the challenges that... -
Confidentiality protection in consulting with modern medicine following use of traditional medicine: perspectives of South African clients
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sidwell Matlala --- Department of Nursing, South Africa Elzabe Nel --- Department of Nursing, South Africa Mary Chabeli --- Department of Nursing, South AfricaThis study explored the confidentiality values and needs of clients of traditional medicine practitioners who also consulted with modern medical care facilities. Participants were 12 clients of traditional healers who were also receiving modern medicine services (9 males; Sotho, Sepedi... -
South African roots towards global knowledge: music or molecules?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Julie Laplante --- Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ottawa Pavillon Desmarais, CanadaThis study highlights current global health biopolitics in conjunction with politics of indigeneity. The illustration is achieved by looking at the politics of knowledge at play in the pre-clinical trial of a traditional medicine in Cape Town, South Africa. The... -
Title: between N!a†xam and tibi. A case study of tuberculosis and the Ju/'hoansi in the Tsumkwe region, Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Diana Gibson --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Estelle Oosthuysen --- , NamibiaIn academic literature and the media, knowledge of the Ju/'hoansi San of Namibia is often either valorised or problematised. In this case study of tuberculosis in a small village in Tsumkwe district, which we call Dune and Low Dune, all... -
The pragmatics of knowledge transfer: an HIV/AIDS intervention with traditional health practitioners in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: J Wreford --- AIDS and Society Research Unit, Centre for Social Science Research,The persistence of the binary of scientific and indigenous or traditional medicine in contemporary South Africa is particularly unhelpful in the context of HIV/AIDS and encourages biomedical disengagement from a potentially helpful cohort of health professionals recognised within their communities... -
Traditional medicine use in surgical patients in a South African tertiary hospital
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: GD Nethathe --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa T Matamba --- Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa J Malumalu --- Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa N Dladla --- Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa T Bayibayi --- Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa SL Russell --- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, CanadaBackground: The use of traditional medicine (TM) in South Africa is reportedly high. TM use in a South African surgical population presenting for elective surgery is unknown. -
The strength of Gunnera perpensa’s “evidence of traditional use”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Lehlohonolo J Mathibe --- Therapeutics and Medicines Management, Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South AfricaIn South Africa, and in several countries in the world, several traditional medicines are used often, although their pharmacology is not yet clear and the extent, if any, of their benefit is not scientifically documented. The Australian’s “Therapeutic Goods Administration”... -
Anti-epileptic prescribing patterns in the South African private health sector (2008–2013)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Karen Jacobs --- Medicine Usage in South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Marlene Julyan --- Medicine Usage in South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Martie S Lubbe --- Medicine Usage in South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Johanita R Burger --- Medicine Usage in South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Marike Cockeran --- Medicine Usage in South Africa, Faculty of Health Sciences, South AfricaBackground: Little is known about longitudinal prescribing practices for anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) in South Africa. The prescribing patterns and associated direct medicine costs of AEDs in the private health sector were investigated, using claims data from January 1, 2008 to... -
Dispensing patterns of prescription-only antiobesity preparations in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Ilse Truter --- Drug Utilization Research Unit (DURU), Department of Pharmacy, South AfricaObjectives: The aim of the study was to investigate the dispensing patterns of prescription-only antiobesity preparations in South Africa (classified as Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) group A08). -
An appraisal of blood pressure control and its determinants among patients with primary hypertension seen in a primary care setting in Western Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Oluwaseun S Ojo --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria Sunday O Malomo --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria Peter T Sogunle --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria Adegbola M IgeBackground: Achieving guideline-recommended blood pressure is imperative in reducing the rising tide of uncontrolled hypertension and its attendant sequelae, which are major causes of morbidity and mortality globally. The aim of the study was to describe the pattern of blood... -
Evolution of Family Medicine in Kenya (1990s to date): a case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: PM Chege --- Department of Family Medicine, Kenya Jeremy Penner --- Department of Family Medicine, Canada P Godoy-Ruiz --- Department of Family & Community Medicine, Canada V Kapoor --- Department of Family Medicine, Canada J Rodas --- Department of Family & Community Medicine, Canada K Rouleau --- Department of Family & Community Medicine, CanadaBackground: Successful Family Medicine practices and academic programmes are found in western countries, Australia, Singapore, Cuba and among other non-western countries. Documenting the enablers and challenges of different contexts would, it is hoped, inform current and future process of developing... -
Knowledge, attitude and practices of South African healthcare professionals towards complementary and alternative medicine use for atopic eczema – a descriptive survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Yasmeen Thandar --- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Heath Sciences, South Africa Julia Botha --- Discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Division of Pharmacology, South Africa Benn Sartorius --- Department of Public Health, School of Nursing and Public Health, South Africa Anisa Mosam --- Department of Dermatology, South AfricaBackground: Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are used widely for treating atopic eczema (AE), commonly in conjunction with conventional medicines prescribed by mainstream healthcare professionals (HCPs). This cross-sectional survey evaluated the knowledge, general attitudes and practices regarding CAM among dermatologists,... -
Gunnera perpensa L.: A multi-use ethnomedicinal plant species in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Fitsum K. Mammo --- Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, South Africa Viresh Mohanlall --- Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, South Africa Francis O. Shode --- Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology, Faculty of Applied Sciences, South AfricaGunnera perpensa L. is a medicinal plant used in many parts of South Africa to treat several human ailments. G. perpensa is inherited from and linked to the Siswati, Changana, Sotho, Venda, Shona, Tsonga, and Zulu traditional healing systems, particularly... -
Bereavement care support in a traditionalist South African community setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mpsanyana Makgahlela --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Tholene Sodi --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe present study investigated the bereavement care support as experienced by 14 Northern Sotho (n = 14, males = 50%; mean age = 59 years, SD = 13.7 years) community members. The study adopted the descriptive phenomenological approach. Data on... -
Awareness of family medicine discipline among clinical medical students of Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Tanko Salihu Tanimu --- Department of Family Medicine, Kano Godpower Chinedu Michael --- Department of Family Medicine, Kano Aliyu Ibrahim --- Department of Paediatrics, Kano Bukar Alhaji Grema --- Department of Family Medicine, Kano Abubakar Abiso Mohammed --- Department of Family Medicine, KanoIntroduction: Undergraduate medical education requires the studying of a wide range of medical specialties to produce the future workforce of the healthcare system. Family medicine (FM), a relatively new specialty in Nigeria, aims at supplying doctors capable of providing comprehensive... -
Undergraduate medical students’ interest in specialising in Family Medicine at the University of the Free State, 2014
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: DT Hagemeister --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa A Pal --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa N Naidoo --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa U Kristen --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa N Mokgosana --- Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa G Joubert --- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, South AfricaBackground: There is a large demand for Family Medicine specialists, yet not enough medical students specialise in this field. This study investigated the interest of undergraduate medical students at the University of the Free State in pursuing a career in... -
Family medicine in South Africa: exploring future scenarios
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: R Mash --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa K Von Pressentin --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South AfricaThis paper reports on a workshop held at the 19th National Family Practitioners Conference in August 2016. The aim of the workshop was to describe possible future scenarios for the discipline of family medicine in South Africa and identify possible... -
Medico-legal documentation of rape or sexual assault: are community-service doctors equipped for the task?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Fouché --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South Africa J Bezuidenhout --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South Africa C Liebenberg --- Department of Forensic Medicine, South Africa AO Adefuye --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South AfricaBackground: Following upon two-year internship, community-service doctors make mistakes when they deal with evidence of medico-legal examinations in various settings. These mistakes result in alleged perpetrators being released by courts. This study investigated undergraduate clinical forensic medicine training, based on... -
Practice of community-service doctors in the assessment and medico-legal documentation of common physical assault cases
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Fouché --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa J Bezuidenhout --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa C Liebenberg --- Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa AO Adefuye --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, South AfricaBackground: In South Africa, allegations of physical assault are managed primarily at the primary healthcare level, where they are attended to by medical officers or community service doctors (CSDs). However, reports that the knowledge and skills provided at undergraduate level... -
Medico-legal aspects regarding drunk driving: experience and competency in practice of community service doctors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Fouché --- Division Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South Africa J Bezuidenhout --- Division Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South Africa C Liebenberg --- Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, South Africa AO Adefuye --- Division Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South AfricaBackground: Drunk driving has been reported to increase the risk of road traffic accidents associated with death and severe injury. In South Africa, an increase in blood alcohol concentration of as little as 0.01 g per 100 ml above the legal limit... -
Technological capabilities in the Indian Ayurveda medicine industry: Lessons for ‘industrialisation’ of alternative medicine in the post-WTO regime
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abha Arya --- Centre for Studies in Science Policy, India Saradindu Bhaduri --- Centre for Studies in Science Policy, IndiaThis paper makes an attempt to explore technological change as well as the motivations and pattern of technological capabilities in the Indian Ayurveda medicine industry. It seeks to investigate the different kinds of learning and technological innovations taking place in... -
Rural medicine and ‘home stay’: a medical student’s experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Reabetswe Ntshabele --- Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Rubeshan Perumal --- Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Nesri Padayatchi --- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)—MRC TB HIV Pathogenesis Unit, South AfricaMedical education is evolving from a heavily hierarchical and paternalistic approach to a more developmental and student-centred paradigm. In addition, there has been a greater focus on decentralised medical education, taking medical students closer to the lowest tiers of the... -
Knowledge of final-year medical students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal about family medicine, and long-term career choices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: R Omed Ali --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa AJ Ross --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa TC Nkabinde --- Department of Family Medicine, South AfricaBackground: While international experience suggests that well-trained primary care physicians improve the quality and cost effectiveness of health care, family medicine (FM) as the discipline of the specialist primary care physician appears to not be an attractive career for medical... -
Biomedical healthcare and African traditional healing in the management of HIV and AIDS: complimentary or competing cosmologies?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elvis Mendu --- Department of Social Work, South Africa Eleanor Ross --- Centre for Social Development in Africa, South AfricaIn South Africa, African traditional healers and biomedical practitioners play important roles in the management of HIV and AIDS, but provide healthcare services in isolation of each other, despite legislative recognition of both types of healing. An interpretive, qualitative research... -
A systematic review of the literature on the specialty preferences of Nigerian medical graduates: disparity between the literature and reality
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: OS Ojo --- Family Medicine Department, Nigeria AO Egunjobi --- Family Medicine Department, Nigeria AJ Fatusin --- Family Medicine Department, Nigeria BO Fatusin --- Family Medicine Department, Nigeria AJ Adeyemo --- Family Medicine Department, NigeriaBackground: The Nigerian literature on the preference for specialties under the West African College of Physicians (WACP) among medical graduates reported a preference for core specialties (Internal Medicine and Paediatrics). This finding is at variance with the number of certified... -
Knowledge and perception of Family Medicine among medical students at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: OE Fasola --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria AO Alao --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria BA Ibisola --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria AM Obimakinde --- Department of Family Medicine, Nigeria IC Odekunle --- Department of Family Medicine, NigeriaBackground: Postgraduate training in Family Medicine in Nigeria began over three decades ago, but it was not until recently that the National University Commission (NUC) made it a policy for all Nigerian universities to include undergraduate Family Medicine training in... -
Improving the quality of clinical training in the workplace: implementing formative assessment visits
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Robert Mash --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa Zelra Malan --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa Julia Blitz --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa Jill Edwards --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South AfricaFamily physicians have a key role to play in strengthening district health services in South Africa. There are a number of barriers to the supply of these specialists in family medicine, one of which is the quality of workplace-based training... -
A review of some aspects of the ecology, population trends, threats and conservation strategies for the common hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius L, in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Beaven Utete --- , ZimbabweThis review explores some ecological aspects of the common hippopotamus (hippo), Hippopotamus amphibius L, threats to its population and contextual peculiarities affecting its conservation in selected water systems in Zimbabwe. Scoping surveys of literature and thematisation of common issues related... -
Knowledge sharing by clinicians using social media: A case study in Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Tesfa Tegegne Asfaw --- , Ethiopia Belisty Yalew Mekonnen --- , EthiopiaSocial media is becoming an integral part of medical information dissemination. Health professionals adopt social media for clinical knowledge sharing and for social networking. However, there is no information specifically about use of social media by Ethiopian clinicians: The purpose... -
Ambiguous diagnosis, futile treatments and temporary recovery: Meanings of medical treatment among HIV/AIDS family caregivers providing care without ARVs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Mokhantšo Makoae --- Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC),The capacity of countries with high HIV and AIDS prevalence to provide antiretroviral treatment and care for all people who need support remains a public health challenge. In Lesotho, there are improvements in this area but the high proportion of... -
HIV knowledge and health-seeking behavior in Zambézia Province, Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Carolyn M. Audet [d209e19] Mohsin Sidat Meridith Blevins Troy D. Moon Alfredo Vergara Sten H. VermundHIV prevalence rates in Zambézia Province were estimated to be 12.6% in 2009. A number of educational campaigns have been aimed at improving HIV transmission and prevention knowledge among community members in an effort to reduce infection rates. These campaigns... -
HIV in (and out of) the clinic: Biomedicine, traditional medicine and spiritual healing in Harare
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Stephen O'Brien --- , , Australia Alex Broom --- , , AustraliaContemporary lived experiences of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are shaped by clinical and cultural encounters with illness. In sub-Saharan countries such as Zimbabwe, HIV is treated in very different ways in various therapeutic contexts including by biomedical experts, traditional... -
Use and perceived effectiveness of complementary medicines for weight loss in adult women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: J Bussicott --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa R Patel --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa J Pellow --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa RK Razlog --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa -
Moringa oleifera regulates the health of people living with HIV in developing countries: a systematic review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Phyllis Waruguru --- University of Nairobi, Kenya Dasel Wambua Mulwa --- University of Nairobi, Kenya Michael Okoth --- University of Nairobi, Kenya Wesley Bor --- Kabarak University, KenyaIf left untreated, HIV has the potential to increase morbidity and mortality rates to 14 times higher than that of HIV and AIDS-free persons of the same sex and age group. Currently, treatment of HIV is by use of ART,... -
Hooded Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus are still declining in West Africa: a nearly 50-year assessment study (1969–2019)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Clément Daboné --- University Centre of Tenkodogo/University Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso Idrissa Ouédraogo --- University Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso Adama Ouéda --- University Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Burkina Faso Lindy J Thompson --- , South Africa Peter DM Weesie --- University of Groningen, The NetherlandsLarge-scale declines in vulture populations have been recorded in West Africa. One concern is that the current trend in Hooded Vulture Necrosyrtes monachus populations in West Africa is poorly known. To help fill this knowledge gap, we conducted nationwide road...
