Table of Contents
From the Editor
| Alma Ata Declaration -- the elusive Holy Grail | |
| Daniel J Ncayiyana | 655 |
Editors choice
| Editors Choice September 2008 | Untitled PDF |
| JP van Niekerk | 657 |
Briewe (letters)
| Doctor's dress code | |
| henk de groot | 658 |
| What's in a name? Terminology in Emergency Care in South Africa | |
| Timothy Craig Hardcastle | 658 |
Izindaba
| Gay community to test HIV prevention pill | |
| Chris Bateman | 660 |
| Slow progress in doctor placement kickback probe | |
| Chris Bateman | 664 |
| Runaway TB epidemic; can we catch up? | |
| Chris Bateman | 670 |
| ALP-Health Dept TB skirmish to bear fruit? | |
| Chris Bateman | 674 |
Forum
| Community health workers in South Africa: Where in this maze do we find ourselves? | Details PDF |
| Marina Clarke, Marina Clarke, Simon Lewin, Judy Dick | 680 |
| Interpersonal violence: Prioritising interventions | |
| Richard Matzopoulos, Jonathan E Myers, Brett Bowman, Shanaaz Mathews | 682 |
| Road traffic injury: prioritising interventions | |
| Richard Matzopoulos, Jonathan E Myers, Rahul Jobanputra | 692 |
| The eye in antiquity | Details PDF |
| François Pieter Retief, Andries A. Stultingh, Louise Cilliers | 692 |
Book reviews
| Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack | |
| Peter Ian Folb | 701 |
Editorial
| Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care: 30th Anniversary | |
| Yogan G Pillay | 702 |
| Reducing the burden of injury: An intersectoral preventive approach is needed | |
| Richard Gregory Matzopoulos, JE Myers, Alexander Butchart, Joanne Corrigall, Margie Peden, Tracey Naledi | 703 |
Scientific letters
| Rheumatoid arthritis functional disability in a public health care clinic | |
| Margaret Westaway | 706 |
| Reliability of HIV Rapid Tests in a Clinical Setting is Largely Dependent on User Performance | Details PDF |
| Daya Moodley, Pravi Moodley, Themba Ndabandaba, Tonya Esterhuizen | 707 |
| Intestinal parasitic infections in adult patients in KwaZulu-Natal | Details PDF |
| Z L Kwitshana, M A Dhansay, J M Tsoka, M L Mabaso | 709 |
Original articles
| Closed suction drainage versus closed simple drainage in the management of modified radical mastectomy wounds | Abstract PDF |
| Emmanuel R Ezeome, Clement A Adebamowo | 712 |
| Fatal road traffic accidents (RTA) in Mtatha area of South Africa. | Abstract PDF |
| Banwari Lal Meel | 716 |
| Otosclerosis and TGF-β1 gene in black South Africans | Abstract PDF |
| mashudu tshifularo | 720 |
| Cryptococcus and Lymphocytic Meningitis In Botswana | Abstract PDF |
| Gregory Bisson, John Lukes, Isaac Mtoni, Rob Roy MacGregor | 724 |
| The Quality of Operative Notes at a General Surgery Unit | |
| Alan David Rogers | 726 |