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   Motor neuron disease: the impact of decreased speech intelligibility on marital communication

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: K Joubert --- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, J Bornman --- Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication,

   Background: The onset of motor neuron disease (MND), a neurodegenerative disease, results in physical and communication disabilities that impinge on an individual's ability to remain functionally independent. Multiple aspects of the marital relationship are affected by the continuously changing roles...

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   Social media among distant spouses in South Western Nigeria

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Olayinka Akanle --- , South Africa God’sgift Chinenye Nwanagu --- , Nigeria Olufunmilola Esther Akanle --- , Nigeria

   Industrialization and modernization have heighten in Africa and this has implications for marriages and family because they make spouses traverse the socio-technological spaces of the twenty-first century and beyond. Social media plays crucial, complicated and strategic roles yet these are...

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   TB/HIV risk factors identified from a General Household Survey of South Africa in 2006

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Sathiya Susuman Appunni --- , , South Africa Renette Blignaut --- , , South Africa Siaka Lougue --- , , South Africa

   The level of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis (TB) as well as the co-infection TB/HIV in South Africa is among the highest in the world. TB is curable while HIV is not, yet the combination of both is a growing...

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