Table of Contents
Contents
| Contents | |
| 185-186 |
From the Editor
| COVID-19 vaccines – changing perspectives | |
| B Farham | 187 |
Correspondence
| Ivermectin for COVID-19: Promising but not yet conclusive | |
| R van Rensburg, E H Decloedt, H Reuter, A Parker, N Schrueder, S Lahri | 188 |
| General Medical Council report exposes unethical recruitment of doctors in the UK from low-resource countries | |
| J J Fagan, M F Bhutta | 189 |
| Barriers to the representation of researchers from developing countries in international health and potential strategies to address these | |
| S Haribhai | 190 |
| Blood shortage in COVID-19: A crisis within a crisis | |
| T D Malange, T Atia | 191 |
| The COVID-19 pandemic and traffic accidents | |
| R Mungmunpuntipantip, V Wiwanitkit | 192 |
Obituaries
| Cató van Wyk | |
| S Benatar | 193 |
| James Peter Byrne | |
| C Wilkinson | 194 |
Book reviews
| Bioethics, Human Rights and Health Law: Principles and Practice. By A Dhai and D J McQuoid-Mason. 2nd ed. Cape Town: Juta & Co. Ltd, 2020. ISBN 9781485130727 | |
| B Ferlito | 195 |
Editorial
| Stroke care: Leaps in addressing the shortfall with some Angels to the rescue | |
| A Bryer | 196-197 |
In Practice
| Qualitative and quantitative detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in untreated wastewater in Western Cape Province, South Africa | |
| R Johnson, C J F Muller, S Ghoor, J Louw, E Archer, S Surujlal-Naicker, N Berkowitz, M Volschenk, L H L Bröcker, G Wolfaardt, M van der Walt, A M Mutshembele, S Malema, H C Gelderblom, M Muhdluli, G Gray, A Mathee, R Street | 198-202 |
| Statement on analysis and interpretation of clinical human gastrointestinal microbiome testing using next-generation sequencing in South Africa | |
| J M Wojno, E du Toit, A Deffur, A Brink | 203-205 |
| Role of vaccines in preventing influenza in healthy children | |
| E Z Sambala, S Cooper, B-M Schmidt, S Walaza, C S Wiysonge | 206-207 |
| Saved by the pump: Two successful resuscitations utilising emergency department-initiated extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in South Africa | |
| N Vlok, K A Hedding, M A van Dyk | 208-210 |
Review
| The impact of obesity on the cellular and molecular pathophysiology of COVID-19 | |
| P Dhanraj, R Pitere, M S Pepper | 211-214 |
Research
| Shortfall in stroke care: A study of ischaemic stroke care practices in a South African metropole | |
| V Mandizvidza, L London, A Bryer | 215-219 |
| Economic growth as an underlying probable systemic driver for childhood obesity in South Africa: A Joinpoint regression and ecological analysis over 10 years | |
| P T Pisa, N M Pisa, P Chikandiwa, A Chikandiwa | 220-226 |
| Rapid review of the effects of cloth and medical masks for preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in community and household settings | |
| T Chetty, V Ramokolo, K Rees, T Kredo, Y Balakrishna, C Mathews, N Siegfried | 227-233 |
| KN95 filtering facepiece respirators distributed in South Africa fail safety testing protocols | |
| L Mottay, J le Roux, R Perumal, A Esmail, L Timm, S Sivarasu, K Dheda | 234-239 |
| Drastic reduction of orthopaedic services at an urban tertiary hospital in South Africa during COVID-19: Lessons for the future response to the pandemic | |
| R Waters, R Dey, M Laubscher, R Dunn, S Maqungo, G McCollum, M Nortje, S Roche, T Hilton, M Held | 240-244 |
| A severity-of-illness score in patients with tuberculosis requiring intensive care | |
| U Lalla, E M Irusen, B W Allwood, J J Taljaard, C F N Koegelenberg | 245-249 |
| Costing total hip arthroplasty in a South African state tertiary hospital | |
| A R Sekeitto, A A Aden | 250-254 |
| High virological failure rates in HIV-1 perinatally infected children in South Africa: A retrospective cohort study | |
| Z N Makatini, J T Blackard, S Mda, P Miles, O Towobola | 255-259 |
| The next generation: Pregnancy in adolescents and women living with perinatally acquired HIV in South Africa | |
| K Anderson, T Mutemaringa, K-G Technau, L F Johnson, K Braithwaite, E Mokotoane, A Boulle, M-A Davies, on behalf of IeDEA-SA Pediatrics | 260-264 |
| A simulation-based study evaluating the preparedness of interns’ post-anaesthesia rotation in managing a failed obstetric intubation scenario: Is our training good enough? | |
| I Kiwalabye, L Cronjé, S Schoeman, T Sommerville | 265-270 |
| The role of treatment delays in surgical site infection after appendicectomy in a South African rural regional hospital | |
| O Swart, T M Esterhuizen, M Voss | 271-275 |
CPD
| CPD Questionnaire | |