‘I am scared to buy condoms from shops.’ 25 years old survey participant. About two-thirds of the LGB (65.6%, 61/93) reported to use lubricants. The figures vary across the groups: 68.3% (41/60) gays, 50.0% (8/16) lesbians, and 70.5% (12/17) bisexuals. The qualitative int...
Marketing about the study is conducted by walking through the neighbourhoods looking for adolescent women who may be hanging out near tuck shops (small, food-selling vendors), corners, and hair and nail salons; and by talking with community members. Potential participants who either contact ...
“HealthKick”: Formative assessment of the health environment in low-resource primary schools in the Western Cape Province of South Africa . BMC Public Health . 2012; 12 (1) :794. PubMed Abstract BioMed Central Full TextDe Villiers, A., Steyn, N. P., Draper, C. E., Fourie...
However South Africa has no choice but to embark on the NHI journey, says Crisp, who was plucked from a blissful early retirement in the Western Cape — where he uses government health services by the way — to run the NHI project. “We can’t carry on with the current system,” he ...
Systems Research Unit, SAMRC, Cape Town; Silondile Luthuli, Centre for Rural Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; Dr Christiane Horwood, Centre for Rural Health, University of KwaZulu-Nata, Durban; Catherine Pereira-Kotze, PhD in Public Health Candidate, University of the Western Cape....
Women in western Cape York’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities will be able to give birth closer to home, thanks to a birthing project led by Weipa rural generalist obstetrician Dr Riley Savage. The Weipa Birthing Unit is set to open soon, with the completion of capital works...
HIV risk perception is an important cognition for prevention, theoretically engendering service-seeking and risk-reduction behaviors, but its composition remains poorly understood. We examined country-specific correlates of self-appraised HIV exposure ri
As a matter of fact, the massage business has become an industry on its own, with as many as 50,000 massage shops operating across the country, whilst employing more that 300,000 workers. SoKor’s massage industry continues to flourish since many in South Korea have grown accustomed to get...
Back then you really had very few clothing shops…they were expensive, yho! … if you saw a girl who is always wearing fashion[able clothing]you just knew this one she practices ukuminca(laughing)or maybe her sister or her aunt…unless they have everything at home(Community member, house...
Is it not the time of year to have them in the shops? The green papaya powder which is really high in papain enzyme has great healing properties, more so than the orange ones, so I hear, it is pretty hard to get but managed to find both from a supplier in Melbourne. With what I...