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Editor: Prof. Gboyega Ogunbanjo
The African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine (PHCFM) serves as a repository for cutting-edge, peer-reviewed research in all fields of primary health care and family medicine in a uniquely African context. |
The journal is indispensable for primary health care practitioners, family medicine specialists and academics from both the developing and developed worlds, and offers an engaging insight into the growth of these disciplines from a distinctly African perspective.
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Vol 2, No 1 (2010)
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Original Research
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Business ethics of private general practitioners in KwaDuKuza, Kwazulu-Natal |
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Indiran Govender, Gary Morris |
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Knowledge and attitude of schoolgirls about illegal abortions in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo |
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Lussy J. Paluku, Langalibalele H. Mabuza, Patrick M.H. Maduna, John V. Ndimande |
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The willingness of private-sector doctors to manage public-sector HIV/AIDS patients in the eThekwini metropolitan region of KwaZulu-Natal |
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Panjasaram Naidoo, Champaklal C. Jinabhai, Myra Taylor |
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Malaria: Knowledge and prevention practices among school adolescents in a coastal community in Calabar, Nigeria |
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Ndifreke E. Udonwa, Abraham N. Gyuse, Aniekan J. Etokidem |
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Sociocultural factors influencing decision-making related to fertility among the Kanuri tribe of north-eastern Nigeria |
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Abdulkarim G. Mairiga, Abubakar A. Kullima, Babagana Bako, Mustapha A. Kolo |
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Social and health reasons for lime juice vaginal douching among female sex workers in Borno State, Nigeria |
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Abdulkarim G. Mairiga, Abubakar A. Kullima, Mohammed B. Kawuwa |
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Risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus among patients attending a rural Kenyan hospital |
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Masemiano P. Chege |
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Impact of adverse events of antiretroviral treatment on regimen change and mortality in Ugandan children |
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Ntambwe Malangu, Yvonne Karamagi |
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The criteria used by private general practitioners in Bloemfontein for the diagnosis and referral of asthma patients aged 6–15 years |
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Monia Balt, Caroline Joubert, Michelle Nel, Lincoln J. Solomon, Gina Joubert |
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Epidemiological changes in oesophageal cancer at National Hospital, Bloemfontein: 1995, 2000 and 2005 |
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Tian van der Merwe, Ruan van der Walt, Jován Esterhuizen, Stephani Botha, Louis Goedhals, Gina Joubert |
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Sustainable poverty amelioration through early life education in a peri-urban community of Lagos, Nigeria |
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Olayinka A. Abosede, Princess C. Campbell, Emmanuel I. Okechukwu, Ajibike O. Salako-Akande, Anthonia O. Onyenwenyi |
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Health care seeking and financial behaviours of the elderly during wartime in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo |
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M. Prosper Lutala, Timothée M. Kwalya, Eric K. Kasagila, L. Hubert Watongoka, Bavon W. Mupenda |
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Active management of third stage of labour, post–partum haemorrhage and maternal death rate in the Vanga Health Zone, Province of Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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Jean-Pierre Fina Lubaki, Jean-Robert Musiti Ngolo, Lucie Zikudieka Maniati |
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Scientific Letters
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The prevalence and effects of urinary incontinence in women working in the Universitas Academic Hospital, Bloemfontein |
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Veronique C. Bailey, Meenakshi Bakaya, Siyabulela H. Jada, Kekeletso E. Khalanyane, Wilhelm J. Steinberg, Gina Joubert, Almereau Prollius |
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Review Articles
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‘Why don’t you just use a condom?’: Understanding the motivational tensions in the minds of South African women |
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Rachel Mash, Bob Mash, Pierre de Villiers |
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Correspondence
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Rural health and Family Medicine |
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Bernhard M. Gaede |
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Book reviews
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A practical approach to common hand problems |
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Ian Couper |
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Avoid the fumble around poisonings |
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Shabir Moosa |
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Comprehensive nursing practice in Primary Health Care |
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Wilma Kotzé |
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Case studies
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Breastfeeding and the mother–child relationship: A case study of Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki |
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Uche M. Okeh |
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Conference Report
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Statement of consensus on Family Medicine in Africa |
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Robert (Bob) Mash, Steve Reid |
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Open Forum
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Use of a CME workshop to introduc e and promote the specialty of Family Medicine in Ethiopia |
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Jane Philpott, Miliard Derbew |
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