Banding Together in Cape Town and Lagos: Engaging Reciprocity as Applied Ethnomusicology

Hot water burns in Cape Town.

Scalds are common in South Africa and accounted for 21.6 per cent of the admissions to the Burns Unit of the University of Cape Town. Two hundred and forty adult patients (160 males, 80 females) with a mean age of 34.2 years were admitted for treatment of scalds between 1985 and June 1992. One hundred and thirteen sustained their scalds accidentally while 127 patients were assaulted with hot wa...

Eosionphilic oesophagitis in Cape Town, South Africa

Eosinophilic oesophagitis has been described in patients from all ethnic backgrounds in studies originating in all continents apart from Africa. A cohort of 8 patients (3 boys, 5 girls) identified at Red Cross Hospital during 2009-2010 is described. Average age 7 years (1yr 11 months to 15 years 10 months). Ethnicity 2 caucasian, 5 mixed, 1 Black African. Age of onset: mean 3 years, median 1 ye...

Incidence of congenital abnormalities in Cape Town.

than is thought. especially in outlying country districts where doctors are few and the complications of pregnancy may not be dealt with as rapidly as is to be desired. Murdoch suggests that a woman who has suffered haemorrhage or shock at delivery must always be viewed as a candidate for Sheehan's syndrome. Schneeberg el al.' recommend that she be kept under observation for at least a year, es...

The Cape Town boyfriend and the Joburg boyfriend: women's sexual partnerships and social networks in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

In South Africa, young people's "multiple" or "concurrent" partnerships have been increasingly prominent in public health discourses - as drivers of HIV transmission. Multiple partnerships are typically framed in moralising, negative terms and depicted primarily as male-driven, within a broader framework of women's vulnerability and use of sex for survival and material gain. Based on ethnograph...

Reflections on Study Space Cape Town