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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
Print version ISSN 0256-9574

 

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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.104 n.8 Pretoria Aug. 2014

 From the Editor
  
 ·  Mission unstoppable? - the full empowerment of women
Seggie, Janet

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 Guest Editorial
  
 ·  Climate change, human health and the role of environmental health practitioners
Wright, Caradee Y; Mathee, Angela; Garland, Rebecca M

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 Editor's Choice
  
 ·  Editor's Choice
Janet, Seggie

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 Correspondence
  
 ·  Time to stop preventable deaths from unsterile traditional male circumcision practices
Simbayi, Leickness; Shisana, Olive; Setswe, Geoffrey; Gray, Glenda; Venter, Francois; Ncayiyana, Dan; Rehle, Thomas

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 ·  Mammography reporting at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
Pitcher, Richard; Lotz, Jan; Ackermann, Christelle; Bagadia, Asif; Davis, Razaan; du Plessis, Anne-Marie; Griffith-Richards, Stephanie; Hattingh, Retha; Wagener, Georg

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 ·  HPV vaccine: Why the rush?
van Bogaert, Louis-Jacques

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 ·  HPV vaccine: Can we afford to hesitate?
Richter, K L; Dreyer, G; Lindeque, B G; Botha, M H

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 ·  GeneXpert TB 8: A point-of-care diagnostic pilot
Smith, Philip; van Esch, Anna; Wallace, Melissa; Wood, Robin; Bekker, Linda-Gail

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 ·  Professional competence in South Africa
Fagan, Johan; Lindeque, Gerhard; Benatar, Solly

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 Izindaba
  
 ·  TB: The tap's down a notch - but the water's polluted
Bateman, Chris

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 ·  Defusing the new drug-resistant TB time bomb
Bateman, Chris

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 ·  Timing their moves, healthcare bodies scrub up for a dust-up
Bateman, Chris

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 ·  Patient lost in the private healthcare mix - Broomberg
Bateman, Chris

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 Book Review
  
 ·  Postmortem: The Doctor Who Walked Away
Garisch, Dawn

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 Orbituary
  
 ·  Boet Dommisse
Denny, Lynette

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 Forum
  
 ·  South African Menopause Society revised consensus position statement on menopausal hormone therapy, 2014
Guidozzi, F; Alperstein, A; Bagratee, J S; Dalmeyer, P; Davey, VM; de Villiers, T J; Hirschowitz, S; Kopenhager, T; Moodley, S P; Roos, P; Shaw, A; Shimange, O; Smith, T; Thomas, C; Titus, J; van der Spuy, Z; van Waart, J

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 ·  Recommendations for the medical evaluation of children prior to adoption in South Africa
Mazanderani, A F Haeri; du Plessis, N M; Lumb, J; Feucht, U D; Myburgh, M; Mayaphi, S H; Lekalakala, M R; Swanepoel, D W; Georgakis, H; Avenant, T

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 ·  Mandatory reporting of child abuse in South Africa: Legislation explored
Hendricks, M L

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 ·  Overturning refusal of a hospital to terminate life support for a brain-dead mother until the fetus was born: What is the law in South Africa?
McQuoid-Mason, D J

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 Editorials
  
 ·  Ebola virus disease in West Africa - an unprecedented outbreak
Weyer, Jacqueline; Blumberg, Lucille H; Paweska, Janusz T

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 ·  Intimate partner violence: How should health systems respond?
Rees, Kate; Zweigenthal, Virginia; Joyner, Kate

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 ·  Professionalism is key in providing services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex South Africans
Muller, Alexandra

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 ·  Time to reduce CD4+ monitoring for the management of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected individuals
Stevens, Wendy S; Ford, Nathan

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 ·  From informed consent to shared decision-making
Manyonga, Howard; Howarth, Graham; Dinwoodie, Mark; Nisselle, Paul; Whitehouse, Sarah

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 Research
  
 ·  National sentinel site surveillance for antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in South Africa, 2010 - 2012
Perovic, O; Singh-Moodley, A; Dusé, A; Bamford, C; Elliott, G; Swe Swe-Han, K; Kularatne, R; Lowman, W; Whitelaw, A; Nana, T; Wadula, J; Lekalakala, R; Saif, A; De-Smidt, M Fortuin; Marais, E

        · abstract in English     · text in English     · English ( pdf )
  
 ·  A cross-sectional analytical study of geophagia practices and blood metal concentrations in pregnant women in Johannesburg, South Africa
Mathee, A; Naicker, N; Kootbodien, T; Mahuma, T; Nkomo, P; Naik, I; de Wet, T

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 ·  Loss of detectability and indeterminate results: Challenges facing HIV infant diagnosis in South Africa's expanding ART programme
Mazanderani, A F Haeri; du Plessis, N M; Thomas, W N; Venter, E; Avenant, T

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 Continuing Medical Education
  
 ·  Climate change: One of the greatest threats to public health in the 21st century
Wright, C Y; Norval, M

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 ·  Human health impacts in a changing South African climate
Wright, C Y; Garland, R M; Norval, M; Vogel, C

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 ·  The HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa: Convergence with tuberculosis, socioecological vulnerability, and climate change patterns
Abayomi, A; Cowan, M N

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 ·  National policy response to climate change in South Africa
Garland, R M

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 ·  Socially, politically and economically mediated health effects of climate change: Possible consequences for Africa
Bowles, D C; Butler, C D

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 ·  Climate change and occupational health: A South African perspective
Kjellstrom, T; Lemke, B; Hyatt, O; Otto, M

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 ·  Abstracts
Farham, B.

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