Browsing The Daffodil Centre by subject "Africa"
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Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities
Published 200915 years after liberation from apartheid, South Africans are facing new challenges for which the highest calibre of leadership, vision, and commitment is needed. The effect of the unprecedented HIV/AIDS epidemic has been ...Article -
Antibodies against human herpesvirus 8 in black South African patients with cancer
Published 1999BACKGROUND: Infection with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) has been consistently linked to Kaposi's sarcoma, but its mode of transmission, association with other cancers, and interaction with the human immunodeficiency virus ...Article -
The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa
Published 200915 years after its first democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden of communicable, non-communicable, perinatal and maternal, and ...Article -
Cancer in Africa
Published 2003Africa was the birthplace of mankind, and Homo sapiens and his ancestors were confined to the African continent for most of their evolutionary period, before migration began to other areas of the world some 140,000 years ...Book -
Cancer in SubSaharan Africa
Published 2006Current data and trends in morbidity and mortality for the sub-Saharan Region as presented in this new edition reflect the heavy toll that HIV/AIDS has had on health indicators, leading to either a stalling or reversal of ...Book Chapter -
Diet and esophageal cancer risk in the eastern cape province of South Africa
Published 2014A multicenter hospital-based case-control study comprising 670 incident cases of esophageal cancer (EC) and 1188 controls, frequency-matched for age and sex, was conducted to evaluate the role of diet on EC development in ...Article -
Differences among the coloured, white, black, and other South African populations in smoking-attributed mortality at ages 35-74 years: a case-control study of 481,640 deaths
Published 2013BACKGROUND: The full eventual effects of current smoking patterns cannot yet be seen in Africa. In South Africa, however, men and women in the coloured (mixed black and white ancestry) population have smoked for many ...Article -
Effects of tobacco smoking on cancer and cardiovascular disease in urban black South Africans
Published 2008Demographic and lifestyle information from 9690 black patients diagnosed with cancer or cardiovascular disease was collected in an ongoing case-control study in Johannesburg, South Africa. Compared to never smokers, the ...Article -
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to smoking in South Africa in 2000.
Published 2008Article -
Health in South Africa: changes and challenges since 2009
Published 2012Since the 2009 Lancet Health in South Africa Series, important changes have occurred in the country, resulting in an increase in life expectancy to 60 years. Historical injustices together with the disastrous health policies ...Article -
Human herpesvirus-8 antibodies and DNA in HIV-1 infected patients in South Africa
Published 2003HIV-infected individuals with high levels of IgG antibodies against human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) are at increased risk of developing Kaposi's sarcoma. The aim of this study was to measure the association between HHV-8 ...Article -
Impact of organised cervical screening on cervical cancer incidence and mortality in migrant women in Australia
Published 2012ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Organised cervical screening, introduced in 1991, appears to have reduced rates of cervical cancer incidence and mortality in women in Australia. This study aimed to assess whether cervical cancer ...Article -
Incidence of histologically diagnosed cancer in South Africa, 1996-1997.
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Injectable and oral contraceptive use and cancers of the breast, cervix, ovary, and endometrium in black South african women: case-control study
Published 2012BACKGROUND: Oral contraceptives are known to influence the risk of cancers of the female reproductive system. Evidence regarding the relationship between injectable contraceptives and these cancers is limited, especially ...Article -
Kaposi's Sarcoma Associated-Herpes Virus (KSHV) Seroprevalence in Pregnant Women in South Africa
Published 2010BACKGROUND: Factors previously associated with Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) transmission in Africa include sexual, familial, and proximity to river water. We measured the seroprevalence of KSHV in relation ...Article -
Lifestyle-induced cancer in South Africa
Published 2006Worldwide, there were approximately 10.1 million new cases, 6.2 million deaths and 22.4 million persons living with cancer in the year 2000. This represents an increase of 19% in incidence and 18% in mortality since 1990, ...Book Chapter -
Lower urinary tract symptoms in relation to region of birth in 95,393 men living in Australia: the 45 and Up Study
Published 2013PURPOSE: Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are very common among older men globally, but evidence regarding the relationship between LUTS and country of origin is limited. This study aimed to investigate the relationship ...Article