Heartwater was first recognised and recorded in South Africa as early as 1838. Since then the disease has been described from almost all the countries in Africa south of the Sahara, from certain islands around Africa and from a number of islands in the Caribbean. Most of the research on the disease, at least until fairly recently, was conducted in South Africa. Progress in research on the disea...

M. Klipin1; I. Mare2; S. Hazelhurst3; B. Kramer4 1 Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa; 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa; 3 School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, ...

Author affiliations: University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (M. Venter, S. Human, D. Zaayman, J. Williams, J. Steyl, C. Donnellan); National Health Laboratory Services, Pretoria (M. Venter); Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute, Pretoria (G.H. Gerdes); National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa (P. Leman, J.T. Paweska, R. Swanepoel); Chartwell Equine...

Cost of admission for paediatric pneumonia in a setting of human immunodeficiency virus infection Omolemo P Kitchin,1 Cert. Pulm(SA) Paed, Francois Wessels, 2 Ph.D, Refiloe Masekela, 1 Cert. Pulm(SA) Paed, Piet Becker, 3 Ph.D, Robin J Green.1 Ph.D [1]. Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Pretoria, South Africa [2]. Outcomes Consultants cc. Pretoria, South A...

1 SoftFrog cc, PO Box 67, Kei Mouth, 5260, South Africa. Email: [email protected] 2 Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 3 Marine and Coastal Management, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Private Bag X2, Rogge Bay 8012, South Africa 4 Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, Un...

M. Nolte, A. Kotzé*, F.H. van der Bank and J.P. Grobler 1 Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa 2 ARC Animal Improvement Institute, P. Bag X2, Irene 0062, South Africa 3 Department of Plant Sciences: Genetics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 4 Department of Biodiversity, School of Molecular a...

China’s trade patterns with African countries have made Beijing the focal point of new antiChinese resistance narratives in Africa. Unlike the Maoist era, when China’s trade policies served its leaders’ political goals, now they aim to access markets as part of China’s larger domestic development strategy. China’s state-run firms can channel China–Africa trade through extra-market decisions tha...

South Africa, like the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, has a disproportionate burden of disease and a shortage of health professionals. Telemedicine has been identified as a possible way of overcoming part of the problem but telemedicine has not been widely adopted. In the public sector hospitals in South Africa which serve 82% of the population there are 2.5 physiotherapists and 2 occupational the...

This chapter discusses the importance of incorporating gender aspects into the national ICT policies in Africa. The mention of gender issues in national ICT policies in Africa is still very scanty (where they exist). Many countries in Africa have no clear gender aspects incorporated into their national ICT policies. The chapter focuses on the imperativeness of ICTs to the livelihood of women in...

1 Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 2 Department of Dermatology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 3 Department of Anatomical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service Groote Schuur Hospital Branch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 4 Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicin...