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Geographical Locations - South Africa
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- (Statistical) Number of Inhabitants per Doctor: 1,271
- CIA World Factbook : South Africa
Organisations and Networks
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Non-Government
- Cancer Association of South Africa
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) is dedicated to fighting cancer in order to save lives. CANSA is a registered Non-Profit Organisation that was set up in 1931 by a group of volunteer doctors concerned about the incidence of cancer in the country.
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
CSVR is a South African organisation whose mission is to develop and implement innovative and integrated human security interventions based upon a commitment to social justice and fundamental rights for people who are vulnerable or excluded. CSVR pursues these goals as essential to our aspiration of preventing violence in all its forms and building sustainable peace and reconciliation in societies emerging from violent pasts - in South Africa, on the African continent and globally.
- Health Systems Trust
Health Systems Trust is an independent non-government organisation established in 1992. It is committed to a health care system which meets the needs of all South Africans and seeks to realise this vision through support for research and skills development, aimed at improving policy and planning at all levels.
- Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. Its work is focused in three main areas: Health Policy, Media and Public Education, and Health and Development in South Africa.
- Isandla Institute
The Isandla Institute is a public interest development think-tank with a primary focus on fostering just, equitable and democratic urban settlements.
- Municipal Services Project Radio Spots
The Municipal Services Project (MSP) is a multi-partner research, policy and educational initiative examing the restructuring of municipal services in South Africa. The Project's central research interests are the impacts of decentralisation, privatisation, cost recovery and community participation on the delivery of basic services to the rural and urban poor, and how these reforms impact on public, industrial and mental health.
- South Africa Environment Project
SAEP works with a variety of South African government departments, educational institutions, environmental non-governmental organisations, and community-based organisations. Its educational programmes include workshops and conferences and a rapidly growing internship programme. Its initial focus has been on South Africa, but it is expanding into Lesotho and other SADC countries as opportunities and funding permit."
- Association of Societies for Occupational Health and Safety
Health Systems Trust is an independent non-government organisation established in 1992. It is committed to a health care system which meets the needs of all South Africans and seeks to realise this vision through support for research and skills development, aimed at improving policy and planning at all levels.
- Women'sNet
Women's Net is a networking support programme designed to enable South African women to use the Internet to find the people, issues, resources and tools needed for women's social action.
Academic Institutions
National Policy and Related Documents
Reports, Guidelines, and Projects
- The Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy
This study offers a comprehensive analysis of the security implications of the spread of infectious diseases. The study examines the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, highlighting this particular crisis as a graphic example of the devastating effects that infectious disease can have on virtually every aspect of a state's functioning viability.
- Health and wellbeing in Udaipur and South Africa
"This paper presents a descriptive account of health and economic status in India and South Africa – countries in very different positions in the international hierarchy of life expectancy and income. …The paper is laid out as follows. Section I provides a brief background on levels and trends in population health and income in India and South Africa within the broad context of levels and trends in international health. Section II describes our three field sites, and documents various dimensions of their health and economic status. Section III analyzes the correlates of health and wellbeing in our sites. "
- Medical Savings Accounts: Lessons Learned From International Experience
This paper reviews existing studies and data on the impact of Medical Savings Accounts on health systems, focusing primarily on Singapore but also reviewing more limited experiences in the United States, China, South Africa and Hong Kong.
- Progress Report on Declaration of Commitment on HIV And AIDS: Republic of South Africa
"The cumulative percent of patients with advanced HIV infection who were registered as having received antiretroviral therapy from public and private sectors increased from 46% in 2006 to 55% in 2007. The actual percent of patients reported to be on treatment was 36% in 2006 and 42% in 2007. A midterm review is underway in order to elucidate the factors at play. The percentage of HIV positive pregnant women who received antiretrovirals to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission increased from 60% in 2006 to 66% in 2007. It was estimated 50.3% of estimated HIV-positive incident TB cases received treatment for TB and HIV in 2007. The percentage of schools that provided life skills based HIV and AIDS education in the last academic year increased from 96% in 2006 to an estimated 100% in 2007. The results of the national HIV survey among pregnant women are showing encouraging trends, a decline from 15.9% in 2005 to 13.5% in 2006 among women younger than 20 years of age as well as from 30.6% in 2005 to 28.0% in 2006 among those between 20 and 24 years of age."
- Research Matters in Governance Equity and Health Videos
This page provides access to videos produced by International Development Research Centre, Canada's Research Matters in Governance, Equity and Health. The first video 'Does Research Matter?' was filmed at the 2004 Global Forum for Health Research. "Making Research Matter" and "Researching the Rollout" examine the project " Public Sector Anti-Retroviral Therapy" currently underway in the Free State, South Africa.
- Seven years of regional malaria control collaboration — Mozambique, South Africa, and Swaziland
The Lubombo Spatial Development Initiative is a joint development program between the governments of Mozambique, Swaziland, and South Africa, which includes malaria control as a core component of the initiative. Vector control through indoor residual spraying (IRS) was incrementally introduced in southern Mozambique between November 2000 and February 2004. Surveillance to monitor its impact was conducted by annual cross-sectional surveys to assess the prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection, entomologic monitoring, and malaria case notification in neighboring South Africa and Swaziland. In southern Mozambique, there was a significant reduction in P. falciparum prevalence after the implementation of IRS, with an overall relative risk of 0.74 for each intervention year (P < 0.001), ranging from 0.66 after the first year to 0.93 after the fifth intervention year. Substantial reductions in notified malaria cases were reported in South Africa and Swaziland over the same period. The success of the program in reducing malaria transmission throughout the target area provides a strong argument for investment in regional malaria control. [author abstract] [American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 76(1), 2007, pp. 42–47]
- Sexual Power and HIV Risk South Africa
Published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 10, No. 11, Nov 2004, this paper examines the correlation between sexual power and inconsistent condom use, forced sex, and HIV infection in South Africa.
- SMASH - Results of Operations Research Projects in Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea and South Africa
Published in 2000, this report examines Social Marketing for Adolescent Sexual Health (SMASH), an innovative prevention programme for AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies amongst adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- They hide things like that from us. The Hidden Epidemic Amongst Former Miners: Silicosis, Tuberculosis and the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
The aim of the research was to assess current and historical surveillance of the pneumoconioses in former miners, in particular silicosis, silico-tuberculosis, and tuberculosis, and to assess the functioning of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act (ODMWA) surveillance and compensation system which is a responsibility of the Department of Health. The research also aimed to assess the impact of the burden of lung disease and disability on the public health system and on the labour-sending communities from which the miners come and to which they return. The main objective was thus to investigate health systems surveillance of the pneumoconioses in former underground gold miners, and to assess diagnostic and compensation systems under the legal framework of the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act 78 of 1973 as Amended (ODMWA). [Health Systems Trust, June 2009]
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