Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and prioritiesMickey Chopra
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Lancet 374:1023-31. 2009
..The South African Government, installed in April, 2009, has the mandate and potential to address the public health emergencies facing the country--will they do so or will another opportunity and many more lives be lost?..
- Saving the lives of South Africa's mothers, babies, and children: can the health system deliver?
Mickey Chopra
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Lancet 374:835-46. 2009
..The costs are affordable and the key gap is leadership and effective implementation at every level of the health system, including national and local accountability for service provision...
Early cessation of breastfeeding amongst women in South Africa: an area needing urgent attention to improve child healthTanya Doherty
Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parow, Cape Town, South Africa
BMC Pediatr 12:105. 2012
..Early cessation of breastfeeding has been found to have negative effects on child morbidity and survival in several studies in Africa. This paper reports on determinants of early breastfeeding cessation among women in South Africa...
- Diagnosis and counselling of patients with acute HIV infection in South Africa
Benjamin J Wolpaw
South African Medical Research Council, Health Systems Research Unit, Cape Town, South Africa
Sex Transm Infect 87:71-2. 2011
..To identify, diagnose and counsel patients with acute HIV infection (AHI) during routine HIV testing in South Africa...
- HIV risk behaviours and their relationship to intimate partner violence (IPV) among men who have multiple female sexual partners in Cape Town, South Africa
Loraine Townsend
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, P O Box 19070, Tygerberg 7505, Cape Town, South Africa
AIDS Behav 15:132-41. 2011
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Operational effectiveness of guidelines on complete breast-feeding cessation to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV: results from a prospective observational cohort study at routine prevention of mother-to-child transmission sites, South AfricaAmeena E Goga
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 50:521-8. 2009
..Until 2006, HIV-positive women who chose to exclusively breast-feed were advised to completely stop breast-feeding by 6 months. We investigated operational feasibility and predictors of complete breast-feeding cessation (CBC)...
- Every death counts: use of mortality audit data for decision making to save the lives of mothers, babies, and children in South Africa
Debbie Bradshaw
Burden of Disease Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Lancet 371:1294-304. 2008
..Audit is powerful, but only if the data lead to action...
- Rapid assessment of infant feeding support to HIV-positive women accessing prevention of mother-to-child transmission services in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia
Mickey Chopra
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parow, Western Cape 7535, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 12:2323-8. 2009
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- Moving from vertical to integrated child health programmes: experiences from a multi-country assessment of the Child Health Days approach in Africa
Tanya Doherty
Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa
Trop Med Int Health 15:296-305. 2010
..To assess the effect of child health days (CHDs) on coverage of child survival interventions, to document country experiences with CHDs and to identify ways in which CHDs have strengthened or depleted primary health care (PHC) services...
- An update on HIV and infant feeding issues in developed and developing countries
Debra J Jackson
School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs 38:219-29. 2009
..Current World Health Organization recommendations require individualized counseling to determine the best feeding method for each woman...
- Why do families still not receive the child support grant in South Africa? A longitudinal analysis of a cohort of families across South Africa
Wanga Zembe-Mkabile
Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Parow, Cape Town, South Africa
BMC Int Health Hum Rights 12:24. 2012
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- Infant feeding practices at routine PMTCT sites, South Africa: results of a prospective observational study amongst HIV exposed and unexposed infants - birth to 9 months
Ameena E Goga
Medical Research Council, Tygerberg and Pretoria, Pretoria Regional Office, 1 Soutpansberg Road, Pretoria, Private Bag X385, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
Int Breastfeed J 7:4. 2012
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- The feasibility of implementing a sexual risk reduction intervention in routine clinical practice at an ARV clinic in Cape Town: a case study
Sarah Dewing
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, P O Box 19070, Tygerberg, Cape Town, 7505, South Africa
AIDS Behav 15:905-10. 2011
..Options was not implemented in a way that was consistent with MI. Revisions to the implementation plan and training programme are required...
- Setting priorities in child health research investments for South Africa
Mark Tomlinson
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
PLoS Med 4:e259. 2007
- How much is not enough? Human resources requirements for primary health care: a case study from South Africa
Emmanuelle Daviaud
Health System Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Western Cape, South Africa
Bull World Health Organ 86:46-51. 2008
..To quantify staff requirements in primary health care facilities in South Africa through an adaptation of the WHO workload indicator of staff needs tool...
- Alma-Ata 30 years on: revolutionary, relevant, and time to revitalise
Joy E Lawn
Saving Newborn Lives Save the Children US, Cape Town, South Africa
Lancet 372:917-27. 2008
..Revitalisng Alma-Ata and learning from three decades of experience is crucial to reach the ambitious goal of health for all in all countries, both rich and poor...
- "Taking care of business": alcohol as currency in transactional sexual relationships among players in Cape Town, South Africa
Loraine Townsend
Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Qual Health Res 21:41-50. 2011
..The study findings point to the need for multilevel HIV risk-reduction interventions among men to reduce excessive alcohol use, risky sexual behaviors, and underlying perceptions of ideal masculinity...
- Reducing intrapartum-related deaths and disability: can the health system deliver?
Joy E Lawn
Saving Newborn Lives Save the Children US, Cape Town, South Africa
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 107:S123-40, S140-2. 2009
..Each year 1.02 million intrapartum stillbirths and 904,000 intrapartum-related neonatal deaths (formerly called "birth asphyxia") occur, closely linked to 536,000 maternal deaths, an estimated 42% of which are intrapartum-related...
- Improving the coverage of the PMTCT programme through a participatory quality improvement intervention in South Africa
Tanya Doherty
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Francie van Zyl Drive, Tygerberg, South Africa
BMC Public Health 9:406. 2009
..We report on a data driven participatory quality improvement intervention implemented in a high HIV prevalence district in South Africa...
- Estimating HIV prevalence and risk behaviors among high-risk heterosexual men with multiple sex partners: use of respondent-driven sampling
Mickey Chopra
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 51:72-7. 2009
..To collect HIV data from high-risk men who have multiple, younger, female sex partners in a periurban township in South Africa...
- Explaining household socio-economic related child health inequalities using multiple methods in three diverse settings in South Africa
Lungiswa L Nkonki
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Int J Equity Health 10:13. 2011
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- Survey of iodine deficiency and intestinal parasitic infections in school-going children: Bie Province, Angola
Mark Tomlinson
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 13:1314-8. 2010
..To obtain baseline pre-intervention prevalence levels of iodine deficiency and parasitic and helminth infections in school-going children in Bie Province, Angola...
- Effectiveness of the WHO/UNICEF guidelines on infant feeding for HIV-positive women: results from a prospective cohort study in South Africa
Tanya Doherty
Medical Research Council, Health Systems Research Unit, Tygerberg, South Africa
AIDS 21:1791-7. 2007
..Little is known about the effectiveness of the implementation of these guidelines in developing country settings...
- The failure of routine rapid HIV testing: a case study of improving low sensitivity in the field
Benjamin J Wolpaw
Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
BMC Health Serv Res 10:73. 2010
..3%-89.0%]) over the course of the first three weeks of observation. The setting is a public service clinic that provides STI diagnosis and treatment in an impoverished, peri-urban community outside of Cape Town, South Africa...
- "Nothing new": responses to the introduction of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa
Mickey Chopra
Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa
AIDS 20:1975-7. 2006
..Many expressed a lack of excitement about the introduction of antiretroviral therapy, and little change in their attitudes concerning the epidemic...
- Responding to the crisis in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of nutrition
Mickey Chopra
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council of South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Public Health Nutr 9:544-50. 2006
..It concludes by suggesting some responses that nutritionists could now be making...
- Scaling up health promotion interventions in the era of HIV/AIDS: challenges for a rights based approach
Mickey Chopra
Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, South Africa
Health Promot Int 20:383-90. 2005
..But this will require health development agencies to pursue a more overt political agenda...
