Vol. 111 No. 9 (2021) | South African Medical Journal

PROMOTING ACCESS TO AFRICAN RESEARCH

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Foreword

Vaccine hesitancy? No, government failure

Bridget Farham

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Guest Editorial

The National Health Insurance Bill: Responses and options for the Portfolio Committee on Health

G C Solanki, J E Cornell, R L Morar, V Brijlal

812-813
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Thalassaemia (part 2)

N A Alli, J Poole, Y Goga

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Correspondence

Re-evaluating blood culture incubation times during SARS-CoV-2: Can we shorten incubation times without compromising results?

C J Opperman, N Samodien

814-815
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Zimbabwe’s COVID- 19 vaccination roll-out: Urgent need to rethink strategies to improve the supply chain

Godfrey Musuka, Munyaradzi Mapingure, Tafadzwa Dzinamarira

816
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Commencement of medical internship during the COVID-19 pandemic: An honour with increased responsibility

A A Nadkar, T D Malange

817
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A call to action: Temporal trends of COVID-19 deaths in the South African Muslim community

M A K Omar, Waasila Jassat, Zameer Brey, Salim Parker, Muhammad Wadee, Shoyab Wadee, Shabir A Madhi

818
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Listeria monocytoge-knees infection: An unusual presentation

S Singh, R Hoffmann

819
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Obituary

Dr Mahomed H Amla, 1 September 1949 - 31 December 2020

Datshana Naidoo

820
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Dr Piet Gonin

John Zaaijman

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Editorial

Stillbirth rate by maternal HIV serostatus and antiretroviral use in pregnancy in South Africa: An audit

S Maswime, C Pule, L M Bebell, B Hedt-Gauthier, N Chandiwana, J E Haberer, R Pattinson

822-823
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Articles

Thalassaemia (part 2): Management

N A Alli, M Patel, J Poole, Y Goga, F Fazel, N Novitzky, S Parasnath, F Bassa

825-833
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In Practice

Issues in public health: Unnatural deaths, alcohol bans and curfews: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment during COVID-19

T A Moultrie, R E Dorrington, R Laubscher, P Groenewald, C D H Parry, R Matzopoulos, D Bradshaw

834-837
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Issues in medicine: Engaging surgeons among clinician-scientists

N Mankahla, T E Madiba, A G Fieggen

838-840
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Clinical update: Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: An update for the COVID-19 era

J Bailly, L Haupt, J Joubert, P Loebenberg, B F Jacobson, V J Louw, P F Wessels, J J Opie

841-848
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Clinical alert: Patterns of oxygen saturation in prolonged recovery from COVID-19 pneumonia

F Asmodien, G Calligaro, A Huisamen, N Kwinana, N Teixeira, T Ward, S J Reid

849-851
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Review

COVID-19 herd immunity v. learning to live with the virus

S A Madhi

852-856
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Research

Evaluating the performance of the GeneXpert HIV‑1 qualitative assay as a consecutive test for a new early infant diagnosis algorithm in South Africa

A Mukendi, T Kufa, T Murray, M Burke, R Strehlau, K-G Technau, C T Tiemessen, G G Sherman, A H Mazanderani

857-861
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Clinical aspects and outcomes of patients with malaria at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

D J Fox, A Karstaedt, C N Menezes

862-871
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Determining the prevalence of tuberculosis in emergency departments in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa and the utility of the World Health Organization tuberculosis screening tool

J S Roberts, E A Hahn, J Black, R Maharaj, J E Farley, A D Redd, S J Reynolds, T C Quinn, B Hansoti

872-878
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Patterns of leprosy at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, and review of current clinical practice

L J Nkehli, C N Menezes, J M L Tsitsi

879-885
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Significance of HbA1c levels in diabetic retinopathy extremes in South Africa

M Mjwara, M Khan, C-H Kruse, W Sibanda, C Connolly

886-890
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The reliability of physical examination in diagnosing arterial injury in penetrating trauma to extremities: A first look at different anatomical regions and injury mechanisms

J le Roux, M Burger, G du Preez, N Ferreira

891-895
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The incidence of fragility hip fractures in a subpopulation of South Africa

M L Grundill, M C Burger

896-902
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Investigating the need for therapeutic drug monitoring of imipenem in critically ill patients: Are we getting it right?

B Mitton, F Paruk, A Gous, J Chausse, M Milne, P Becker, M Said

903-909
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Magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis of causes of cerebral palsy in a developing country: A database of South African children

M M Elsingergy, F Worede, S Venkatakrishna, J Curic, S Andronikou

910-916
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Erratum

Erratum

Claudia Naidu

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Journal Identifiers

eISSN: 2078-5135
print ISSN: 0256-9574