the editorial “non-physician clinicians in sub-saharan africa and the evolving role of physicians” by eyal et al describes non-physician clinicians’ (npc) need for mentorship and support from physicians. we emphasise the same need of support for front line generalist primary healthcare providers who carry out complex tasks yet may have an inadequate skill mix.

the objective of this work is to elucidate various essential drugs in the brazil, russia, india, china and south africa (brics) countries. it discusses the opportunities and challenges of the existing biotech infrastructure and the production of drugs and vaccines in member states of the brics. this research is based on a systematic literature review between the years 2000 and 2014 of documents...

BACKGROUND The objective was to examine the short-term risk and predictors of anaemia following initiation of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) in HIV-infected patients from the Western Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, Central Africa, Asian-Pacific, and Caribbean and Central and South America regions of the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) collabora...

Robert J. M. Crawford*, Azwianewi B. Makhado, Philip A. Whittington, Rod M. Randall, W. Herman Oosthuizen and Lauren J. Waller 1 Branch Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Animal Demography Unit, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa 3 Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Eli...

Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mtubatuba, South Africa, Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Immunology department, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, University of the Free State School of...

1. Freehouse International Ltd., Gibraltar 2. StopTB, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 3. Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 4. South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, Stellenbosch, South Africa 5. Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa 6. Academic Complex Business Unit, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Natio...

1 Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 Vaccines for Africa Initiative, In...