Category: Diseases
715 Posts
Overcoming the COVID-19 Disruption to Essential Health Services
Jhb CPD Webinar: Management of sepsis in pregnancy, 16th Oct
COVID-19, Health Systems Science (HSS), Universal Health Coverage
Beyond COVID-19 (coronavirus): What will be the new normal for health systems and universal health coverage?
Mental health: time to invest in quality
One stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds, according to first ever joint UN estimates
The Lancet: Global collaboration for health: rhetoric versus reality
GHSP: Top 10 resources in global surgery
Building a Digital Tool for the Adoption of WHO’s Antenatal Care Recommendations
COVID-19, Educational Resource
COVID-19 Digital Classroom: Home-based care and Community-based Surveillance Courses available!
COVID-19 halting crucial mental health services in Africa, WHO survey
COVID-19, Global Health, Primary health care
Clinical courage and COVID 19 survey
COVID-19, Information Management, Population Health and COPC
Volunteering and the Digital World: Extending the Power of Volunteering through New Technologies
COVID-19, Health Education System
A series of interactive webinars on remote teaching and a welcome reprieve from it.
Africa, COVID-19, Health Systems Science (HSS)
Could this be a turning point for Africa’s health systems?
COVID-19, Global Health, Primary health care
Leveraging nurse practitioner capacities to achieve global health for all: COVID‐19 and beyond
COVID-19, Population Health and COPC, SA Health General
COVID-19 Health is In Our Hands Awareness
Africa, COVID-19, Health Systems Science (HSS), Mother & Child, WHO AFRO
Sierra Leone reversing immunization decline in wake of COVID-19
WEBINAR: Impact of COVID-19 on Older People with Cancer
COVID-19, Global Health, Quality and Service Improvement
Family doctors statement on Patient Safety
Innovating to Address Gender-Based Violence
Social, environmental factors seen behind Africa’s low COVID-19 cases
Planting Ideas for a Reimagined Primary Health Care System in Rural Kenya
COVID-19, Primary health care, Research
COVID-19 and international primary care systems: Rebuilding a stronger primary care
COVID-19, Global Health, Health Systems Science (HSS), Primary health care, Research
Relationship between the perceived strength of countries’ primary care system and COVID-19 mortality: an international survey study
COVID-19, Health Systems Science (HSS)
In Africa’s COVID-19 Response, Strive, Don’t Settle
COVID-19, Quality and Service Improvement, WHO Global, WONCA Global
World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) 17 September 2020
Africa, COVID-19, NCDs, WHO AFRO
Noncommunicable diseases increase risk of dying from COVID-19 in Africa
COVID-19, Health Systems Science (HSS)
Health-Systems Strengthening in the Age of COVID-19
Stronger governance is at the heart of addressing the health workforce crisis
What Is COVID-19 Teaching Us About Community Health Systems? A Reflection From a Rapid Community-Led Mutual Aid Response in Cape Town, South Africa
PRIMARY HEALTHCARE IN NIGERIA DURING AND AFTER COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Waiting On The World To Change
A new, 20-minute assay for COVID-19 diagnosis — Melbourne University
#Masks4allinAfrica, COVID-19, SA Health General
Masks – Who wears them and Why it matters
Ramaphosa takes South Africa out of hard lockdown, lifts cigarette and alcohol ban
COVID-19, Human Resources, SA Health General
SA’s nurses: Poorly trained, in poor health, and living in fear
The pandemic appears to have spared Africa so far. Scientists are struggling to explain why
Inside Nasrec Field Hospital’s Red Zone
Africa marks six months of COVID-19
Reimagining HIV and PHC for a Post-COVID World (Thursday, Aug 13)
All-cause deaths in SA as at 28th July 2020
WHO #WearAMask Challenge – Do It All
Africa, Jhb DRC, NCDs, Primary health care, Research
Tobacco use in Johannesburg
Africa, Jhb DRC, NCDs, Primary health care, Research
Severe acute malnutrition in children of Johannesburg
Africa, Jhb DRC, NCDs, Primary health care, Research
Patients at high risk of having lung cancer in Johannesburg
Africa, Jhb DRC, Population Health and COPC, Primary health care, Priority Diseases, Research
Overcrowding and health in Johannesburg
Africa, Jhb DRC, Primary health care, Priority Diseases, Research
Arsenic and lead in gardens of Johannesburg
Africa, Jhb DRC, Mother & Child, Primary health care, Research
Maternal iron-deficiency in Johannesburg
Africa, Jhb DRC, NCDs, Population Health and COPC, Primary health care, Research
Hookah pipe smoking in high-schools of Johannesburg
Africa, Jhb DRC, Mother & Child, Primary health care
Safety of rotavirus vaccine in Johannesburg
Health Systems Organisation, Jhb DRC, Mother & Child, NCDs, Primary health care
Screening for gestational diabetes in Johannesburg
Jhb DRC, Primary health care, Research, Tuberculosis
Silica dust and TB in Johannesburg
Health Systems Information, Jhb DRC, Primary health care, Tuberculosis
TB treatment outcomes in Johannesburg
Health Systems Organisation, Jhb DRC, NCDs
Accuracy of glucometers in Jhb clinics
COVID-19, Jhb DRC, Mental Health, Research
Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Soweto
Africa, COVID-19, Economics, Financing and Payment Systems, Primary health care
Strengthening primary healthcare and leaving no one behind: A case study of Ukana West 2 community-based health initiative (CBHI)
Kupitiliza: Continued primary care in Covid-19 times
COVID-19, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Hospitals, SA, 7th August
Public health considerations while resuming international travel
Africa closes in on one million COVID-19 cases
A guide to WHO’s guidance on COVID-19
Blood test may identify which COVID-19 patients are best candidates for steroid treatment
Africa: Benefits of childhood vaccination programmes far outweigh risks of COVID-19 transmission
Concerns about lasting heart damage in COVID-19 patients — 2 German studies
Nervous COVID-19 patients want home care rather than hospital admission
Jhb City level responses to drug use and HIV in the context of COVID-19
How Covid-19 emergency procurement turned into a cadres’ feast – COVID-19 Lockdown
UK’s home finger-prick antibody test passes first clinical trial – COVID-19 Lockdown
Why the models got the Western Cape so wrong | COVID-19 Lockdown
CMSA urges govt to reconsider new taxi loading rules | COVID Lockdown
COVID-19 Nationwide Lockdown: Ramaphosa declares schools will shut for 4 weeks – but Grade 12s get 1 week’s break
Zweli Mkhize plays down discrepancy in reported deaths
COVID-19, SA Health General, Webinars
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Eastern Cape, SA, 31st July
Corruption wreaks healthcare services
Webinar: COVID-19 in Africa – Malawi, 24th July (3pm)
An mRNA Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 — Preliminary Report
South Africa endures coronavirus crisis as health services collapse – BBC News
Taxi capacity rules ‘justified and supported by science’, says health MEC
SA MRC Reports on Deaths in SA as at 7th July 2020
Staff accuse Médecins Sans Frontières of ‘institutional racism
Neurological associations of COVID-19
Coronavirus chaos: BBC goes inside SA’s ‘hospitals of horrors’
Groote Schuur medic describes her day in a Covid-19 ward
NASREC
Covid-19: Western Cape and Gauteng prepare for the peak
Here are the best and worst materials for face masks
State patients in private hospitals: What’s the deal?
Gauteng’s Nasrec Field Hospital gets first patients after life-saving donations
Challenges of scaling-up of TB-HIV integrated service delivery in Ghana
#Masks4allinAfrica, COVID-19, Global Health
Confusion over masks policy after UK minister says they should not be compulsory – BBC News
COVID-19, Primary health care, SA Health General
Covid-19: Are SA’s district hospitals government’s coronavirus blindspot?
COVID-19, Global Health, Primary health care
PHCPI Blog: Tracking and treating when there aren’t enough tests: Lessons learned from South Boston
COVID-19: Seven lessons from the Western Cape
Johannesburg doctors desperate
#Masks4allinAfrica, COVID-19, WHO Guidelines
WHO acknowledges ‘evidence emerging’ of airborne spread of COVID-19
International Study on Global PHC Response to COVID
MRC Webinar: Clinical Collaboration in the Time of COVID-19
Africa, COVID-19, Educational Resource