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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 515-516 |
Guest Editorial
| Climate change, human health and the role of environmental health practitioners | PDF HTML |
| Caradee Y Wright, Angela Mathee, Rebecca M Garland | 518-519 |
From the Editor
| Mission unstoppable? – the full empowerment of women | PDF HTML |
| Janet Seggie | 517 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | PDF HTML |
| Janet Seggie | 520 |
Correspondence
| Time to stop preventable deaths from unsterile traditional male circumcision practices | |
| Leickness Simbayi, Olive Shisana, Geoffrey Setswe, Glenda Gray, Francois Venter, Daniel J Ncayiyana, Thomas Rehle | 521 |
| Mammography reporting at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Richard Pitcher, Jan Lotz, Christelle Ackermann, Asif Bagadia, Razaan Davis, Anne-Marie du Plessis, Stephanie Griffith-Richards, Retha Hattingh, Georg Wagener | 521 |
| HPV vaccine: Why the rush? | |
| Louis-Jacques Jean van Bogaert | 521-522 |
| HPV vaccine: Can we afford to hesitate? | |
| Karin Louise Richter, Greta Dreyer, Barend Gerhardus Lindeque, Marthinus Hendrik Botha | 522-523 |
| GeneXpert TB 8: A point-of-care diagnostic pilot | |
| Philip Smith, Anna van Esch, Melissa Wallace, Robin Wood, Linda-Gail Bekker | 524 |
| Professional competence in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Johan Fagan, Gerhard Lindeque, Solly Benatar | 524 |
Izindaba
| TB: the tap’s down a notch – but the water’s polluted | PDF HTML |
| 525-527 |
| Defusing the new drug-resistant TB time bomb | |
| 528-529 |
| Timing their moves, healthcare bodies scrub up for a dust-up | PDF HTML |
| 530-533 |
| Patient lost in the private healthcare mix – Broomberg | PDF HTML HTML |
| 533-535 |
Obituaries
| Boet Dommisse | |
| Lynette Denny | 536 |
Book reviews
| Postmortem: The Doctor Who Walked Away. By Maria Phalime. Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2014. ISBN 9780624057604 | |
| Dawn Garisch | 535-536 |
Forum
| South African Menopause Society revised consensus position statement on menopausal hormone therapy, 2014 | |
| Franco Guidozzi, A Alperstein, J S Bagratee, P Dalmeyer, M Davey, T J de Villiers, S Hirschowitz, T Kopenhager, S P Moodley, P Roos, A Shaw, O Shimange, T Smith, C Thomas, J Titus, Z van der Spuy, J van Waart | 537-543 |
| Recommendations for the medical evaluation of children prior to adoption in South Africa | |
| Ahmad F Haeri Mazanderani, Nicolette M du Plessis, Janet Lumb, Ute D Feucht, Marcelle Myburgh, Simnikiwe H Mayaphi, Molebogeng R Lekalakala, De Wet Swanepoel, Hellen Georgakis, Theunis Avenant | 544-549 |
| Mandatory reporting of child abuse in South Africa: Legislation explored | |
| Melany Leonie Hendricks | 550-552 |
| Overturning refusal of a hospital to terminate life support for a brain-dead mother until the fetus was born: What is the law in South Africa? | |
| David Jan McQuoid-Mason | 553-554 |
Editorial
| Ebola virus disease in West Africa – an unprecedented outbreak | |
| Jacqueline Weyer, Lucille Hellen Blumberg, Janusz T Paweska | 555-556 |
| Intimate partner violence: How should health systems respond? | |
| Kate Rees, Virginia Zweigenthal, Kate Joyner | 556-557 |
| Professionalism is key in providing services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex South Africans | |
| Alexandra Muller | 558-559 |
| Time to reduce CD4+ monitoring for the management of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected individuals | |
| Wendy Susan Stevens, Nathan Ford | 559-560 |
| From informed consent to shared decision-making | |
| Howard Manyonga, Graham Howarth, Mark Dinwoodie, Paul Nisselle, Sarah Whitehouse | 561-562 |
Research
| National sentinel site surveillance for antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in South Africa, 2010 - 2012 | |
| Olga Perovic, Ashika Singh-Moodley, Adriano Dusé, Colleen Bamford, G Elliott, Khine Swe Swe-Han, Ranmini Kularatne, Warren Lowman, Andrew Whitelaw, Trusha Nana, Jeanette Wadula, Ruth Lekalakala, Adrienne Saif, Melony Fortuin De-Smit, Else Marais | 563-568 |
| A cross-sectional analytical study of geophagia practices and blood metal concentrations in pregnant women in Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Angela Mathee, Nisha Naicker, Tahira Kootbodien, Tshepo Mahuma, Palesa Nkomo, Inakshi Naik, Thea De Wet | 568-573 |
| Loss of detectability and indeterminate results: Challenges facing HIV infant diagnosis in South Africa’s expanding ART programme | |
| Ahmad F Haeri Mazanderani, Nicolette Marie du Plessis, Winifred Nancy Thomas, Elizabeth Venter, Theunis Avenant | 574-577 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |
Continuing Medical Education
| Climate change: One of the greatest threats to public health in the 21st century | |
| C Y Wright, M Norval | 578 |
| Human health impacts in a changing South African climate | |
| C Y Wright, R M Garland, M Norval, C Vogel | 579-582 |
| The HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa: Convergence with tuberculosis, socioecological vulnerability, and climate change patterns | |
| A Abayomi, M N Cowan | 583 |
| National policy response to climate change in South Africa | |
| R M Garland | 584 |
| Socially, politically and economically mediated health effects of climate change: Possible consequences for Africa | |
| D C Bowles, C D Butler | 585 |
| Climate change and occupational health: A South African perspective | |
| T Kjellstrom, B Lemke, O Hyatt, M Otto | 586 |
| Abstracts | |
| B Farham | 587 |