Southern African Journal Research Articles

Late-onset efavirenz toxicity: A descriptive study from Pretoria, South Africa

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.

Human rights violations among men who have sex with men and transgender people in South Africa

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.

Skin and mucosal manifestations of an AIDS-related systemic mycosis

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.

Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guidelines for harm reduction.

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Palliative care guidelines for the management of HIV-infected people in South Africa.

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.

Editorial: A South–South exchange begins to re-frame historic dialectical exclusions into situated heritage discourses of reflexive re-imagining

The environments in which indigenous communities live have been sustained through complex interactions over centuries. Since the advent of colonial modernity, however, these interactions have experienced change and risk. In education for sustainability, these indigenous environments can be read as changing social-ecological landscapes which both sustain diverse livelihood practices and exhibit the escalating challenges of late modernity. This Special Issue of the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education (SAJEE) focuses on the intergenerational knowledge and livelihood practices of indigenous communities who - often marginalised and facing ever-narrowing prospects of future sustainability - are confronted with an education system that is a relic of colonial modernity and devoid of any social-ecological heritage to which they can relate. Environmental educators and researchers are therefore asking questions concerning colonial modernity in current educational practices, such as: - What can be done to address the predominantly reified and disembedded curricula offered in school and post-school contexts today? - What is the value of bringing local, indigenous and intergenerational heritage and knowledge practices into the curriculum? - How can this inclusion be done in pluralistic and intercultural ways? It is precisely these themes and topics that are addressed in this Special Issue’s research, viewpoint and think-piece papers. Many of the contributions have emerged from an international collaboration around Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) through the ESD Expert.Net programme.1 This has involved exchange visits between South Africa, Mexico and India, which have produced research collaborations and contact with researchers from further afield – in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Australia and Norway – who responded to the call for papers. There is clearly a strong interest within the international academic community to explore the relevance of indigenous knowledge, in research and in education, in order to better direct human activities towards a sustainable future.

Acknowledgement to reviewers

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.

Editorial: Understanding Collective Learning and Human Agency in Diverse Social, Cultural and Material Settings

The significance of environment and sustainability education research and practice, and its potential contribution to a sustainable future for humanity, is conveyed by the International Social Science Council (n.d.), which explains: People everywhere will need to learn how to create new forms of human activity and new social systems that are more sustainable and socially just. However, we have limited knowledge about the type of learning that creates such change, how such learning emerges, or how it can be scaled-up to create transformations at many levels. Here, the important shift is towards considering what social systems, forms of knowledge, learning processes and questions of justice are associated with perpetuating or halting the decline of Earth’s bio-geo-chemical systems. This edition of the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education contributes three research papers and a themed Think Piece collection to these international deliberations about the role of education in enabling transformations to sustainability. Collectively, the articles highlight how relationality and the formation of human agency in socio-cultural and material settings in past–present–future configurations underpin all environment-oriented learning processes. The three research papers constituting the first part of this volume offer glimpses into how current unsustainable socio-cultural and material configurations might be transformed to address social inequalities and damaged people–nature relations. The Think Piece collection, introduced by Lotz-Sisitka, Laessoe and Jorgensen later in this editorial, focuses on how learning can foster and contribute to the development of change agents and collective agency for climate-resilient development.

Adult antiretroviral therapy guidelines 2017.

These guidelines are intended as an update to those published in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine in 2014 and the update on when to initiate antiretroviral therapy in 2015. Since the release of the previous guidelines, the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in southern Africa has continued. New antiretroviral drugs have become available with improved efficacy, safety and robustness. The guidelines are intended for countries in the southern African region, which vary between lower and middle income.

Acknowledgement to reviewers

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.

Frontline patient safety, currency training and continuing professional development linked to the workflow process for anaesthesia

Over the last three decades, beginning with the NASA aviation safety initiative, massive strides have been made in many complex and high-risk industries in terms of enhancing human performance and the application of a systems-based approach to the workflow process. The result, for many of these industries, has been safer working environments, better outcomes and improved satisfaction for all users of the system. Large reductions in aviation-related incidents and deaths, the attainment of greater than sigma-6 level safety in certain environments such as aircraft carriers, and many more, are examples of how the application of relevant and effective frontline techniques have changed the working environment in these complex and stressful work environments. (Full text available online at www.medpharm.tandfonline.com/ojaa ) Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia 2016; 22(2):68–69 DOI: 10.1080/22201181.2016.1154311

Research gaps in neonatal HIV-related care.

The South African prevention of mother to child transmission programme has made excellent progress in reducing vertical HIV transmission, and paediatric antiretroviral therapy programmes have demonstrated good outcomes with increasing treatment initiation in younger children and infants. However, both in South Africa and across sub-Saharan African, lack of boosted peri-partum prophylaxis for high-risk vertical transmission, loss to follow-up, and failure to initiate HIV-infected infants on antiretroviral therapy (ART) before disease progression are key remaining gaps in neonatal HIV-related care. In this issue of the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, experts provide valuable recommendations for addressing these gaps. The present article highlights a number of areas where evidence is lacking to inform guidelines and programme development for optimal neonatal HIV-related care.

Antiretroviral therapy during the neonatal period

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.

Research gaps in neonatal HIV-related care

The South African prevention of mother to child transmission programme has made excellentprogress in reducing vertical HIV transmission, and paediatric antiretroviral therapyprogrammes have demonstrated good outcomes with increasing treatment initiation inyounger children and infants. However, both in South Africa and across sub-Saharan African,lack of boosted peri-partum prophylaxis for high-risk vertical transmission, loss to followup,and failure to initiate HIV-infected infants on antiretroviral therapy (ART) before diseaseprogression are key remaining gaps in neonatal HIV-related care. In this issue of the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine , experts provide valuable recommendations for addressingthese gaps. The present article highlights a number of areas where evidence is lacking toinform guidelines and programme development for optimal neonatal HIV-related care.

Care of HIV-exposed and HIV-infected neonates

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.

Prof Lundgren’s significant contribution to SAJAA and its future

Prof Chris Lundgren was the Editor-in-Chief of the Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia (SAJAA) for a remarkable 14 years from 2001-2015. Under her excellent guidance, the journal has developed and grown to the point that the Academy of Science for South Africa’s (ASSAf) review of scholarly publishing in South Africa found SAJAA to be worthy of continued accreditation with the Department of Higher Education and Training. 1 During her editorship, applications were made to Medline and Thomson Reuters for inclusion in their databases, which were unsuccessful unfortunately. However, they generated useful feedback on both how to improve the standard of the journal and the importance thereof. The quality of the journal and the published articles has improved through subsequent implementation of these recommendations.

Adult antiretroviral therapy guidelines 2014 : guideline

These guidelines are intended as an update to those published in the Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine in 2012. Since the release of the previous guidelines, the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in southern Africa has continued. Cohort studies from the region show excellent clinical outcomes; however, ART is still being initiated late (in advanced disease) in some patients, resulting in relatively high early mortality rates. New data on antiretroviral drugs have become available. Although currently few, there are patients in the region who are failing protease-inhibitor-based second-line regimens. To address this, guidelines on third-line therapy have been expanded.

A sad farewell

The final edition of our journal for this year closes a few chapters in the history of the Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia (SAJAA), and heralds the start of an exciting future, with a new international publisher joining forces with Medpharm Publications, and Bruce Biccard becoming the new Editor-inChief. This will be my final editorial after 13 years at the helm, and it is a very sad one for me as we bid farewell and celebrate the life of our friend and publisher, Dr Douw Greeff. Douw died on 11 November, five days after celebrating his 40th birthday.

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The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and public health practice. The purpose of the journal is to disseminate original research results and support high-level learning related to HIV Medicine. It publishes original research articles, editorials, case reports/case series, reviews of state-of-the-art clinical practice and correspondence.