INTRODUCTION Trauma is a well-known leading cause of unnatural death and disability in South Africa. Internationally the trend is moving toward systematised care. AIM To revise the Trauma Centre Criteria of the Trauma Society of South Africa and align these with the terminology and modern scope of emergency care practice, using best-care principles as a prelude to the development of trauma sy...

CONTEXT South Africa has the most HIV infections of any country in the world, yet little is known about the adolescent continuum of care from HIV diagnosis through viral suppression. OBJECTIVE To determine the adolescent HIV continuum of care in South Africa. DATA SOURCES We searched PubMed, Google Scholar and online conference proceedings from International AIDS Society (IAS), Internationa...

Cohort Profile: The Siyakhula Cohort, rural South Africa T J Rochat, B Houle, A Stein, R M Pearson, M L Newell and R M Bland* Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Human and Social Development Research Programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Durban, South Africa, MRC Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit, Department of Paediatrics, School of Clinica...

in an inbound hub network: case study in South Africa Honora Smith*, Daniel Cakebread, Maria Battarra, Ben Shelbourne, Naseem Cassim and Lindi Coetzee Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK; School of Management, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK; National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa; and Department of Molecular Medicin...

1 Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 2 Department of Genetics, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, 3 Department of Plant Sciences, Tree Protect...

Poisons Information Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children’...

1 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Centre for High Performance Computing, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Wallenberg Research Centre at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 4 Center for Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in...

Authors Seike Garny, Jan Verschoor, Neil Gardiner and Justin Jordaan Emerging Health Technologies, Council for Science and Industrial Research in Pretoria, South Africa; Department of Biochemistry, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Short title Nitric oxide reductase activity assay Corresponding author Seike Garny at Molecular Biomaterials, CSIR Biosciences, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria, 0091, Sou...

STEP Program, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA, Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA, Institute for Soil, Climate, and Water, Agricultural Research Council, Stellenbosch 2599, South Africa, Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics, Conservation International, Arlington, VA 22202, USA, School...

Carolyn Williamson and Ronald Swanstrom Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Division of Medical Virology, and National Health Laboratory Services, University of Cape Town, 7925 Cape Town, South Africa; Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, 4013 Durban, South Africa; and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and UNC Center for AIDS Research, Universi...