Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents page | |
From the Editor
Rock's pill that rocked the world | |
JP van Niekerk | 783 |
Editor's choice
Quo vadis healthcare quality assurance? | |
Chris Bateman | 785 |
Correspondence
The impact of the National HIV Health Care Worker Hotline | |
Annoesjka Swart, Briony Chisholm, Karen Cohen, Marc Blockman, Hans-Friedemann Kinkel, Tamara Kredo | 786 |
A South African doctors' team in the World Cup? | |
Paul Fourie | 786 |
HIV diagnosis in a mobile unit | |
Viroj Wiwanitkit, reply by Van Schaik et al. | 786,788 |
Disaster preparedness – looking forward | |
A G Mac Mahon | 788 |
Schistosomiasis – an endemic but neglected tropical disease in Limpopo | |
Louis-Jacques van Bogaert | 788-789 |
GP remuneration compared with non-health care costs | |
Andrew Good | 789 |
Emergency medical services - poor response time in the rural Eastern Cape | |
E Meents, T Boyles | 790 |
Izindaba
NHI consensus: fix the existing system or risk failure | |
791-793 |
Private hospitals offers wide-ranging NHI assistance | |
794-795 |
NHI fund to be vetted along SARS lines | |
796-797 |
Obituaries
Des Dall | |
C P van der Merwe | 810 |
Ralph Georg Hendrickse | |
Krishna Somers | 810-811 |
Willem Lubbe | |
Stuart J Saunders, Lionel H Ople | 811 |
Forum
Setting priorities for health in 21st century South Africa | |
Karen J Hofman, Stephen M Tollman | 798-800 |
Can disease control priorities improve health systems performance in South Africa? | |
L C Rispel, P Barron | 801-806 |
The SAPIT trial provides essential evidence on risks and benefits of integrated and sequential treatment of HIV and tuberculosis | |
Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S Abdool Karim, Cheryl Baxter, Gerald Friedland, Tanuja Gengiah, Andrew Gray, Anneke Grobler, Kogileum Naidoo, Nesri Padayatchi, Wafaa El-Sadr | 808-809 |
Scientific letters
HIV prevalence and incidence in people 50 years and older in rural South Africa | |
C Wallrauch, T Bärnighausen, M L Newell | 812-814 |
Should routine serological screening for HCV be mandatory in HIV/AIDS patients enrolling for HAART in South Africa? | |
Maemu P Gededzha, M Jeffrey Mphahlele, Azwidowi Lukhwareni, Selokela G Selabe | 814-815 |
Original articles
Cost-effectiveness analysis for priority-setting in South Africa - what are the possibilities? | |
Jane Doherty | 816-821 |
Hyperglycaemic crisis in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa: High mortality and association of hyperosmolar ketoacidosis with a new diagnosis of diabetes | |
C O Ekpebegh, B Longo-Mbenza, A Akinrinmade, E Blanco-Blanco, M Badri, N S Levitt | 822-826 |
Mother-to-child transmission of HIV in a community-based antiretroviral clinic in South Africa | |
Felicity C Fitzgerald, Linda-Gail Bekker, Richard Kaplan, Landon Myer, Stephen D Lawn, Robin Wood | 827-831 |
The role of prenatal alcohol exposure in abruptio placentae | |
M M du Toit, M Smith, H J Odendaal | 832-835 |
Bacteria isolated from bloodstream infections at a tertiary hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - antimicrobial resistance of isolates | |
S Moyo, S Aboud, M Kasubi, S Y Maselle | 835-838 |
Guidelines
Guideline for the optimal use of blood cultures | |
Ntobeko Ntusi, Lindsey Aubin, Stephen Oliver, Andrew Whitelaw, Marc Mendelson | 839-843 |
Guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pancreatitis | |
Philippus Christoffel Bornman | 845-860 |
CPD
CPD Questionnaire | |
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