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GP Health Department and Wits sign MOU
Is Rwanda Africa’s answer to Switzerland?
SA to adopt WHO’s ‘test and treat’ HIV guidelines
Kenya’s Health Workforce Looks to Technology for Training in Family Planning
Distributing clean needles to curb the spread of HIV
Policy guidelines: 72-hour Assessment of Involuntary Mental Healthcare Users
‘We can do better,’ doctor tells health market inquiry
Staff shortages, poor leadership cripple healthcare
Report: Saving Mothers 2011 – 2013
Dlamini hits back at Public Protector
WONCA 2016 global five star doctor Dr Atai Omoruto passes on
The Solution to Millennial College Dropouts? More High-School Seniors Should Follow Malia Obama and Take a Gap Year
Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030
Lack of private GP buy-in is the Achilles heel of NHI
Nursing Educom – meeting the Health information need of Nurses and Midwives working in Low and Middle income Countries
Establishing learning health systems in Africa and a better way to publish science
SciDev.Net: Dispel rumours to fix immunisation’s image problems
Using Twitter to drive research impact: A discussion of strategies, opportunities and challenges
New free e-learning course on Personalised Medicine
Exploring the role of communication in community health in Sierra Leone
Lancet: Diabetes – 100s of millions lack access to medicines or information
WHO, UK and German governments launch global patient safety movement
Yellow fever outbreak in Angola
An Ageing World: 2015
Doctors’ trade union vows to fight dissolution
Micro-workouts mean no more excuses not to exercise
Gauteng hospitals go hi-tech to manage beds
WONCA Africa NEWS 18th April
WONCA Africa NEWS 11th April
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Quitting smoking abruptly has best long-term results
New Film about Obstructed Labour for Midwives
Private healthcare: The blame game
Hospitals, specialists ‘overgrazing’ medical aid members
National Health Insurance chance to improve quality
Universal Health Care: How others do it
National Health Insurance: A wing and a prayer
Patient Case Studies: Public and private
Surgical care for disadvantaged populations
Causes of maternal deaths in Rwanda – Understanding why women die
Community Health Workers: Bringing Family Planning Services to Where People Live and Work
TRIP database: Turning Research Into Practice
Int J Qual Health Care: Guide to Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Current State of Play
‘Revised WHO classification and treatment of childhood pneumonia at health facilities 2014’
Social mobile media for health workers – article
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The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology: Liberating data: the crucial weapon in the fight against NCDs
Clinical nursing and midwifery research: grey literature in African countries
The Lancet Global Health: Model villages: a platform for community-based primary health care
Join the Grid: Africa Research Methods Library of Alexandria
Reproductive Health: Behaviour change techniques and contraceptive use in LMICs
Mobile Apps for Bipolar Disorder: A Systematic Review
New EU working group aims to draft guidelines to improve health apps
mproving emergency care provision: African solutions?
Lancet Infectious Diseases: HIV becoming resistant to key drug
WONCA E-update 5 FEBRUARY 2016
Zika 10 messages for children to learn and share
New AIDSFree Guidance Database
WHO: Microcephaly and Zika virus infection
JMIR: Features of Computer-Based Decision Aids: Systematic Review
Malaria Journal: Why do health workers give anti-malarials to patients with negative rapid test results?
2015 Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators
Zika Prevention & Community Education Guide
Hesperian Health Guides in Portugese: Vírus Zika
Angola says 37 dead in yellow fever outbreak
Zika Outbreak: WHO’s Global Emergency Response Plan
WONCA E-update 19 FEBRUARY 2015
Cochrane evidence on supplementation with multiple micronutrients for breastfeeding women for improving outcomes for the mother & baby
Using a mHealth tutorial application to change knowledge and attitude of frontline health workers to Ebola virus disease in Nigeria
What is an evidence map? A systematic review of published evidence maps and their definitions, methods, and products
Uptake of evidence in policy development: the case of user fees for health care in public health facilities in Uganda.
New Lancet Series: Breastfeeding
New free e-learning course on Palliative Care in India
NPR: Can A Bath Of Milk And Honey Replace Female Genital Mutilation?
Malaria Journal: Factors affecting adherence to national malaria treatment guidelines among public healthcare workers in Uganda
BBC: Ebola still “devastates” survivors
Private care exposed as costly, insensitive
Erectile dysfunction not just for those ‘silver foxes’
The Big Chill: Health post freeze threatens services
Motsoaledi does not want NHI to limit choices
What you need to know about Zika virus
Int J Qual Health Care: Guide to Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Current State of Play
Surg Res Pract: Knowledge, Practice, and Associated Factors towards Prevention of Surgical Site Infection among Nurses in Ethiopia
J Med Internet Res: Providing Doctors With High-Quality Information – An Updated Evaluation of Web-Based Point-of-Care Information Summaries
Gogos step up for peace of mind
Health department should focus on internal efficiency rather than NHI
Understanding Diabetes – the Basics
NHI financing impossible in current economic climate
Community health workers demand more pay
Policy: Managing Patient Safety Incidents in South Africa
Circular: Use of Fixed-dose Combinations in Place of Lamivudine Single Agents
Cricket: Temba’s test ton
Building nonracial society requires mindset shift, says Zuma
The force is strong with Elon Musk
Strategy: The Prevention and Control of Obesity in South Africa 2015-2020
Your New Medical Team: Algorithms and Physicians
