BACKGROUND. Since 2008, the Medicines Information Centre (MIC) has run the South African National HIV & TB Health Care Worker Hotline which provides free information on patient treatment to all healthcare workers in South ...

Inadequate delegation of authority, defective budgeting processes, staffing issues, lack of managerial skills, vacancies in key managerial positions, and ineffective use or absence of quality management information systems ...

Task shifting has enabled South Africa (SA) to rapidly expand its HIV treatment programme. This has been achieved by training and mentoring primary-care nurses in nurse initiation and management of antiretroviral therapy ...

This scoping review attempts to contextualise the current state of research regarding responding to co-morbid depression and HIV in primary healthcare, identify the gaps in research and develop appropriate recommendations. ...

BACKGROUND: Fifth-year medical students from the University of Pretoria participated in a four-week rotation in the primary care clinics of a large metropolitan centre. An academic service-learning (ASL) approach was ...

In the mid-1960s two doctors, one in London and the other in Chicago, set about changing the accepted medical care of dying patients. In London, Dr Cicely Saunders established St Christopher's Hospice specifically to provide ...

BACKGROUND: In 2011 an experienced HIV nurse from the UK was deployed for 3 months to act as a mentor to nurses learning to initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART) in primary care clinics in a small town in the Eastern ...