Effect of a ward-based outreach team and adherence game on retention and viral load suppression.

Background: Only 66% of South African people living with HIV (PLWH) are virologically suppressed. Therefore, it is important to develop strategies to improve outcomes.

Objectives: Assess the effect of interventions on 12-month retention in care and virological suppression in participants newly initiated on antiretroviral therapy.

A biomechanical study on the effect of long head of biceps tenotomy on supraspinatus load and humeral head position during shoulder abduction.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of biceps tendon tenotomy on the load of the supraspinatus tendon/muscle complex during abduction of the arm from 0° to 15°.

Methods: Eleven fresh frozen human cadaver shoulders (6 males, 5 females, age ranged 44-88 years, mean upper extremity weight 2.96 ± 0.

A Spatial Analysis of COVID-19 in African Countries: Evaluating the Effects of Socio-Economic Vulnerabilities and Neighbouring.

The ongoing highly contagious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has now become a global public health problem. Using publicly available data from the COVID-19 data repository of Our World in Data, we aimed to investigate the influences of spatial socio-economic vulnerabilities and neighbourliness on the COVID-19 burden in African countries. We analyzed the first wave (January-September 2020) and second wave (October 2020 to May 2021) of the COVID-19 pandemic using spatial statistics regression models.

Translating new evidence into clinical practice: a quasi-experimental controlled before-after study evaluating the effect of a novel outreach mentoring approach on knowledge, attitudes and confidence of health workers providing HIV and infant feeding counselling in South Africa.

Objectives: We report the effectiveness of a mentoring approach to improve health workers' (HWs') knowledge, attitudes and confidence with counselling on HIV and infant feeding.

Design: Quasi-experimental controlled before-after study.

Setting: Randomly selected primary healthcare clinics (n=24 intervention, n=12 comparison); two districts, South Africa.

Retrospective record review of pregnant women treated for rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is amongst the top five causes of death in women of childbearing age (15-≤44 years). Little is known about treatment of pregnant women with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). Treatment for pregnant women remains challenging and more complex in DR-TB/HIV co-infection, where an evidence-based guide to clinical practice is limited.

The relationship between physical fitness and community participation in people with spinal cord injury.

Background: People with spinal cord injury (PWSCI) who use wheelchairs for mobility tend to be physically inactive because of their limited mobility. Poor endurance and exercise tolerance, associated with poor physical fitness, can make it challenging to meet the physical demands of activities such as manoeuvring a wheelchair over gravel roads. This may lead to poor community participation in activities PWSCI were involved in pre-morbidly.