The Economic Impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) on the Health System of South Africa. A Cost of Illness Study. by Hellebo, Assegid Getahun

“…This analysis supports the scaling up of primary and secondary prevention programmes at primary health centres in order to reduce the future burden on tertiary services. …”
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Variations in pollen and fungal spore air spora: an analysis of 30 years of monitoring for the clinical assessment of patients in the Western Cape by Berman, Dilys Melanie

“…Current pollen monitoring programmes should be consulted for immunisation regimes to grass and tree pollen. …”
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A GIS based planning support system for inclusionary housing profitability optimisation in Cape Town, South Africa by Krause, Philip

“…This, along with inner-city and surrounding precinct regeneration programmes, guided by neo-liberal market-friendly agendas, have contributed towards gentrification and consequent displacement of poorer communities from the few remaining central, but previously affordable, precincts. …”
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Towards the development of an optimal SDN controller placement framework to expedite SDN deployment in emerging markets by Mamushiane, Lusani

“…SDN presents a shift in paradigm by decoupling the control plane from the data plane, abstracting lower level functionality of underlying hardware and enabling network programmability through a centralized controller. As the “brain” of the network, the controller must be able to process and respond to requests from the data plane promptly and proficiently. …”
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Exploring first year health sciences students' perceptions and experiences of teamwork: an introduction to interprofessional education by Hendricks, Adibah

“…In this study different groups referred to students registered for different health professional degree programmes. Based on the proviso that teamwork can be associated with positive, functional interactions between people, which of contact theory's suppositions were experienced by the students in this study was explored. …”
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Investigating the intention of pregnancy among women living with HIV and its effect on the early development of their HIV exposed infants by Moyo, Chido

“…Background: The increase in access and coverage of ART, including through prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in Africa, has resulted in the reduction of vertical transmission, which has led to >95% of infants born to women living with HIV (WLHIV) in South Africa being born HIV uninfected. …”
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Social equity and sustainability considerations in the planning of Nature-based solutions in Southern African Water Towers by Campbell, Andrea

“…As such, NbS are gaining popularity globally in international policy and programmes resulting in an increase in multilateral funding from the Global North for NbS projects in developing countries. …”
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The incorporation of web technologies by university libraries in the Southern African Development Community to implement user-centred services by Ndinoshiho, Joseph Megameno

“…University libraries exist to support the strategic objectives of their parent universities by providing access to quality and relevant scholarly and scientific information in support of the curricula and research programmes. In fulfilling their core functions, university libraries are increasingly adopting an array of web technologies to deliver quality services to their user community. …”
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The 2010 Fifa world cup: Perceptions of its sports and development legacy potential by Mills, Lucy Caroline

“…Given the problematic history of donor-driven, Northern-based development programmes, we must be wary of perpetuating the marginalisation of local voices. …”
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Your place or mine? The love hotel as a post-domestic hyperreality by Pienaar, Alex

“…“The Love Hotel”, is an imagined building which accommodates a multitude of programmes centered around spatio-relational aspects of pleasure and intimacy in our post-modern context. …”
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Clinico-epidemiological profile of cardiac admissions at a district level hospital in South Africa: a cohort study by Engelbrecht, Lillian Lize

“…While the in-hospital and one-year mortality rates are notable, but not too unexpected when compared to available data, we nevertheless recommend programmes focused on improving adherence to treatment and optimization of heart failure therapy at a primary care level, as means to reduce rates of poor adherence, suboptimal anti-failure therapy and poor glycaemic control observed in our cohort.…”
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Clinico-epidemiological profile of cardiac admissions at a district level hospital in South Africa: a cohort study by Engelbrecht, Lillian Lize

“…While the in-hospital and one-year mortality rates are notable, but not too unexpected when compared to available data, we nevertheless recommend programmes focused on improving adherence to treatment and optimization of heart failure therapy at a primary care level, as means to reduce rates of poor adherence, suboptimal anti-failure therapy and poor glycaemic control observed in our cohort.…”
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