The genus Herminella Spaeth from southern Africa is revised. It comprises four species: Herminella liliputana Spaeth and H. marshalli Spaeth are redescribed and two species are described as new-H. quadrimaculata from South Africa and H. flavocostata from Nambia and South Africa. A new related genus and species Hermosacantha madagascarica from Madagascar is described. Members of both genera belo...

BACKGROUND While the HIV epidemic in South Africa had a later onset than epidemics in other southern African countries, prevalence grew rapidly during the 1990's when the country was going through socio-political changes with the end of Apartheid. South Africa currently has the largest number of people living with HIV in the world and the epidemic is dominated by a unique subtype, HIV-1 subtype...

This paper gives an overview of the difficulties associated with the design of hard rock pillars in South African mines. Recent examples of large scale pillar collapses in South Africa suggest that these were caused by weak partings which traversed the pillars. Currently two different methods are used to determine the strength of pillars, namely, empirical equations derived from back analyses o...

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: ThuHa Dinh, Kevin P. Delaney, Ameena Goga, Debra Jackson, Carl Lombard, Selamawit Woldesenbet, Mary Mogashoa, Yogan Pillay, Nathan Shaffer 1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 2 Centers for Disease ...

OBJECTIVES Community or retail pharmacies are regarded as one of the most common sources of health services throughout the world. In South Africa, community pharmacies have been providing some primary health care services to clients who could afford to pay. These services included screening, family planning, and emergency care for minor ailments. With the introduction of the new qualification, ...

of issues from an Annotated Bibliography on Equity in Health in Southern Africa (see www.equinet.org.zw). Compiled by Training and Research Support Centre, Zimbabwe with NIDR Botswana, Medical School Zimbabwe, Centre for Health Policy, South Africa, Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town, South Africa, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Blair Research Lab, Zimbabwe. Hara...

ETHIOPIA and Liberia, in applications to the International Court of Justice, alleged that the Union of South Africa [South Africa] has violated Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the terms of a Mandate under which it has responsibility for administering the Territory of South West Africa. Specifically the petitioning states charge that South Africa, in administering the ter...

This report documents emergence of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1) and Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC-2) in K. pneumoniae and Enterobacter cloacae in South Africa. NDM-1 producers have not been described in South Africa, and this is the first instance that KPC producers have been identified in Africa. The two patients infected with these carbapenemase-producing bacteria demised.

The majority of people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa having the highest number of cases recorded world-wide [1,2]. Haematological manifestations of HIV including Non Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) are common and diverse, and can occur at all stages of infection [3]. Preliminary studies conducted in South Africa suggest that HIV associated lymphomas are increasing in number with...

16. Harnessing both Information and Knowledge Visualisation to Represent a Community of Practice: Depicting the South African ICT4D Researcher Community Judy van Biljon, Karen Renaud 2,1 1 School of Computing, University of South Africa, Tshwane, South Africa 2 School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK [email protected] (http://www.judyvanbiljon.com) karen.renaud@glasgo...