This quasi-experimental study assesses the value of simulation based learning for a medical flight crew within an air ambulance service based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The purpose of this study was to assess the value ...

Introduction: VCT services are a meaningful entry point to a continuum of care, in treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and related illnesses. Although VCT has been available at some sites across the country even before ...

Background: South Africa is one of the countries with the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence in the world. The main mode of transmission in South Africa is via heterosexual intercourse. Thus there is ...

Factor X deficiency is a rare bleeding disorder with an incidence of one in a million in the general population. Patients with the severe form of factor X deficiency suffer from serious bleeds occurring mainly into the ...

Background The first two years of a child’s life are crucial for cognitive development. In societies where there are high rates of poverty, children are at risk of undernutrition and subsequently stunting. Insufficient ...

Introduction: The spread and prevalence of the HIV epidemic has resulted in extensive demographic, social and economic impacts among families in the communities affected in Sub Saharan Africa which increase with the ...

Background: The long term effect of infant nutrition on later body composition has gained global attention since the developmental origins of health and disease because of the association between early life outcomes and ...

Headache is a common complaint in society and is related to personal, biomechanical and socioeconomic circumstances. In current literature trigger-points (TrPs) in the majority of the muscles of the face and neck contributing ...

Introduction: Although socioeconomic inequality in health and mortality is currently on the top of the epidemiologic debate, studies however on the subject among adult population in Africa has been hampered due to the long ...