'South Africa is Not an Accused'

XDR-TB in South Africa: Detention Is Not the Priority

Ramalitse Sakoane It is only about 25 years since the abolition or abandonment of TB sanatoria in South Africa. It is likely that there are people in South Africa who are familiar with the idea of isolation of TB patients from the general public emanating from the era of TB sanatoria, and it is conceivable that they are likely to be understanding of the reasons that were used to keep patients t...

Why is cancer not a priority in South Africa?

Is Ethnicity Identifiable? Lessons from an Experiment in South Africa

Ethnicity is frequently posited as an important factor in civil violence and other political contexts. Despite the significant attention that ethnicity receives, its effect depends on an important, but mostly ignored, assumption: that ethnicity is identifiable within and across groups. There is likely considerable variation in peoples’ abilities to identify each other. Certain individuals withi...

Adherence is not a barrier to successful antiretroviral therapy in South Africa.

OBJECTIVE To determine adherence of an indigent African HIV-infected cohort initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART); to identify predictors of incomplete adherence (< 95%) and virologic failure (> 400 HIV RNA copies/ml). DESIGN Prospective monitoring of adherence in a poor HIV-positive cohort, attending a public sector hospital and receiving ART through phase III studies. METHODS Adherence ...

The elevated serum urea:creatinine ratio in canine babesiosis in South Africa is not of renal origin.

Pigmented serum, usually due to free haemoglobin and/or bilirubin, is a common finding in dogs with babesiosis, resulting in interference with all biochemical tests that rely on photochemistry. This is particularly true of urea and creatinine determinations, complicating the diagnosis of acute renal failure, which is a serious complication of babesiosis. A disproportionately raised serum urea c...