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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 | |
| 7 |