13 Result(s)

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Correction: Transient increased risk of influenza infection following RSV infection in South Africa: findings from the PHIRST study, South Africa, 2016–2018

Naomi R. Waterlow, Jackie Kleynhans, Nicole Wolter, Stefano Tempia… in BMC Medicine (2024)

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Transient increased risk of influenza infection following RSV infection in South Africa: findings from the PHIRST study, South Africa, 2016–2018

Large-scale prevention of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection may have ecological consequences for co-circulating pathogens, including influenza. We assessed if and for how long RSV infection alters th...

Naomi R. Waterlow, Jackie Kleynhans, Nicole Wolter, Stefano Tempia… in BMC Medicine (2023)

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Short- and long-read metagenomics of urban and rural South African gut microbiomes reveal a transitional composition and undescribed taxa

Human gut microbiome research focuses on populations living in high-income countries and to a lesser extent, non-urban agriculturalist and hunter-gatherer societies. The scarcity of research between these extr...

Fiona B. Tamburini, Dylan Maghini, Ovokeraye H. Oduaran… in Nature Communications (2022)

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Cognitive differences associated with HIV serostatus and antiretroviral therapy use in a population-based sample of older adults in South Africa

Previous clinical studies have reported adverse cognitive outcomes for people living with HIV (PLWH), but there are no population-based studies comparing cognitive function between older PLWH and comparators w...

Stephen B. Asiimwe, Meagan Farrell, Lindsay C. Kobayashi… in Scientific Reports (2020)

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Traditional healers use of personal protective equipment: a qualitative study in rural South Africa

Traditional healers are frequently exposed to hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through the widespread practice of traditional “injections”, in which the ...

Carolyn M. Audet, Elisa Gobbo, Daniel E. Sack… in BMC Health Services Research (2020)

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Cognitive function and cardiometabolic disease risk factors in rural South Africa: baseline evidence from the HAALSI study

Evidence on cognitive function in older South Africans is limited, with few population-based studies. We aimed to estimate baseline associations between cognitive function and cardiometabolic disease risk fact...

Brian Houle, Thomas Gaziano, Meagan Farrell, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé… in BMC Public Health (2019)

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Traditional healer treatment of HIV persists in the era of ART: a mixed methods study from rural South Africa

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) substantially contributes to the burden of disease and health care provision in sub-Saharan Africa, where traditional healers play a major role in care, due to both their acc...

Carolyn M. Audet, Sizzy Ngobeni… in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2017)

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Cash transfers for HIV prevention: what do young women spend it on? Mixed methods findings from HPTN 068

Social grants have been found to have an impact on health and wellbeing in multiple settings. Who receives the grant, however, has been the subject of discussion with regards to how the money is spent and who ...

Catherine MacPhail, Nomhle Khoza, Amanda Selin, Aimée Julien… in BMC Public Health (2017)

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Evaluation of the Tsima community mobilization intervention to improve engagement in HIV testing and care in South Africa: study protocol for a cluster randomized trial

HIV transmission can be decreased substantially by reducing the burden of undiagnosed HIV infection and expanding early and consistent use of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Treatment as prevention (TasP) has be...

Sheri A. Lippman, Audrey Pettifor, Dumisani Rebombo, Aimée Julien… in Implementation Science (2017)

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Erratum to: Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality

Lucia D’Ambruoso, Kathleen Kahn, Ryan G. Wagner… in Global Health Research and Policy (2016)

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Health care utilization and outpatient, out-of-pocket costs for active convulsive epilepsy in rural northeastern South Africa: a cross-sectional Survey

Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, with over 80 % of cases found in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Studies from high-income countries find a significant economic burden associated with epil...

Ryan G. Wagner, Melanie Y. Bertram, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé… in BMC Health Services Research (2016)

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Moving from medical to health systems classifications of deaths: extending verbal autopsy to collect information on the circumstances of mortality

Verbal autopsy (VA) is a health surveillance technique used in low and middle-income countries to establish medical causes of death (CODs) for people who die outside hospitals and/or without registration. By v...

Lucia D’Ambruoso, Kathleen Kahn, Ryan G. Wagner… in Global Health Research and Policy (2016)

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Changing use of traditional healthcare amongst those dying of HIV related disease and TB in rural South Africa from 2003 – 2011: a retrospective cohort study

In 2011 there were 5.5 million HIV infected people in South Africa and 71% of those requiring antiretroviral therapy (ART) received it. The effective integration of traditional medical practitioners and biomed...

Paul Mee, Ryan G Wagner… in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2014)