• Ready or not: a documentary on student struggles and strategies 

  Mahali, A.; Swartz, S. (2018-08-12)

  For the past few years students, staff and the government have been embroiled in a struggle to transform South Africa???s institutions of higher education. Despite the recent announcement of fee-free university education ...
• The prevalence and social determinants of hypertension among adults in Indonesia: a cross-sectional population-based national survey 

  Peltzer, K.; Pengpid, S. (2018-08-10)

  Hypertension is the most significant avoidable cause of morbidity and mortality, yet nationally representative adult data on Indonesia have not been available.The study aimed at assessing the prevalence and determinants ...
• Prevalence and correlates of physical activity among female and male adolescents and adults in South Africa 

  Pengpid, S.; Peltzer, K.; Phaswana-Mafuya, N. (2018-08-10)

  This study examined the prevalence, demographic and health correlates of physical activity levels among youth and adults in South Africa.Cross-sectional data from the South African National Health and Nutrition Examination ...
• Networks of well-being in the Global South: a critical review of current scholarship 

  Mahali, A.; Lynch, I.; Fadiji, A.; Tolla, T.; Khumalo, S.; Naicker, S. (2018-08-10)

  The subject of human well-being continues to gain traction in disciplines as diverse as psychology, sociology, development studies, and economics. Current scholarship, however, is still largely framed by normative assumptions ...
• #TotalShutDown: an intersectional women's march against gender based violence 

  Mahali, A. (2018-08-10)
• Social and behavioural factors associated with risky sexual behaviours among university students in nine ASEAN countries: a multi-country cross-sectional study 

  Yi, S.; Te, V.; Pengpid, S.; Peltzer, K. (2018-08-10)

  While university students are potential human resources, this population group is particularly involved in health risk behaviours. Preventing risky sexual behaviours among them would contribute to prevention of HIV, sexually ...
• Burning tyres and rubber bullets: the dystopic policing of university students in the South African fallist movements of 2015-2016 

  Mahali, A. (2018-07-29)
• Exploring pathways to private sector investment in climate change adaptation and resilience in Africa 

  Nyamwanza, A.M.; Bhatasara, S. (2018-07-26)

  The objective of this paper is to explore ways in which African governments can engage the private sector to successfully create conditions and incentives for accelerated private sector investment in climate change adaptation ...
• Innovation for equitable local socioeconomic development: action agenda for resource-poor municipalities 

  Jacobs, P.; Sinyolo, S.; Jonas, S.; Fakudze, B. (2018-07-26)

  This policy brief describes how municipalities can benefit from RIAT and what they should do to maximise the benefits of these tools.
• On history and mythmaking in South Africa: the decolonial quest for truth(s) and relevance 

  Bialostocka, O. (2018-07-25)

  In responding to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's decolonial call for 'a quest for relevance', this essay deals with the issue of removal of colonial and apartheid-era monuments in South Africa as a way of creating a 'liberating ...
• Community engagement and the provision of water services in Nyanga, Cape Town 

  Nomdo, A.; Davids, Y.D.; Sanchez Betancourt, D. (2018-07-26)

  The ultimate aim is to enable the community to become agents of change, rather than mere beneficiaries of services or passive customers.
• Client's perception of quality of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment and car in resource-limited setting: experience from Nigeria 

  Oladimeji, O; Adeyinka, D.A.; Makola, L.; Mitonga, K.H.; Udoh, E.A.; Ushie, B.A.; Oladimeji, K.E.; Chikovore, J.; Mabaso, M.; Adeleke, A.; Eltayeb, O.; Kuye, O.J.; Mustapha, G.; Ige, O.M.; Mbatha, J.N.; Creswell, J.; Tsoka-Gwegweni, J.M.; Lawson, L.; Igumbor, E.U. (Intech Open Access, 2018-07-20)

  Quality care is essential to the well-being and survival of people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The aim of this study is to explore how MDR- TB patients, who were voluntarily hospitalized, perceived care ...
• Influences on exclusive breastfeeding among rural HIV-infected South African women: a cluster randomized control trial 

  Jones, D.L.; Rodriquez, V.J.; Mandell, L.N.; Lee, T.K.; Weiss, S.M.; Peltzer, K. (2018-07-19)

  South African guidelines for prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) of HIV emphasize exclusive breastfeeding (EBF). This study examined the impact of a PMTCT intervention and male involvement on EBF. In a ...
• Measuring performance on the healthcare access and quality index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 

  Oladimeji, O.; Healthcare Access and Quality Collaborators, GBD 2016 (2018-07-19)

  A key component of achieving universal health coverage is ensuring that all populations have access to quality health care. Examining where gains have occurred or progress has faltered across and within countries is crucial ...
• Multiple perspectives on factors affecting early antenatal care attendance in the context of PMTCT in a rural district of South Africa 

  Mlambo, M.; Penn, C.; Peltzer, K.; Phaswana-Mafuya, N. (2018-07-19)

  Despite the extensive coverage of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and a decline in new HIV infections among children nationally, challenges still exist with regard to timeous initiation of antenatal ...
• Representations of hope, goals, and meaning from Lay Person's perspectives in two African contexts 

  Wilson, A.; Wissing, M.P.; Ndima, L.; Somhlaba, N.Z. (2018-07-19)

  In the rapidly expanding field of positive psychology, a core question is now what the relationships among various positive constructs are and how we can understand this in various contexts. We aimed to explore the possible ...
• The prevalence of edentulism and their related factors in Indonesia, 2014/15 

  Pengpid, S.; Peltzer, K. (2018-07-19)

  Little information exists about the loss of all one???s teeth (edentulism) among older adults in Indonesia. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of edentulism and associated factors among older adults ...
• Promoting alignment between innovation policy and inclusive development in South Africa 

  Petersen, I.; Kruss, G. (2018-07-19)

  Innovation for inclusive development (IID) is widely promoted as a policy objective in the global South, but the challenge is that there is little design and implementation of context-appropriate instruments and incentives. ...
• New accents on the social: thinking on South Africa's history at UWC 

  Soudien, C. (2018-07-19)

  Professor Crain Soudien's new review essay 'New Accents on the Social: Thinking on South Africa's history at UWC' tackles the question of the social through an assessment of three publications produced by CHR faculty and ...
• Patients and health system-related factors impacting on tuberculosis program implementation in resource-constrained settings: experience from multi-TB facilities in Oyo state, South-West of Nigeria 

  Oladimeji, O.; Tsoka-Gwegweni, J.; Mlangeni, L.; Makola, L.; Awolaran, O. (Intech Open Access, 2018-07-20)

  Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most prevalent human infections and is the second leading cause of deaths from infectious diseases worldwide, and Nigeria is the fourth among the 22 high-burden countries in the world for ...

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