Tebogo Gumede

• Affordability, availability and acceptability barriers to health care for the chronically ill

  Open Access•Jane Goudge, Lucy Gilson et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Health Services Research•2009

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  BACKGROUND: There is an increasing burden of chronic illness in low and middle income countries, driven by TB/HIV, as well as non-communicable diseases. Few health systems are organized to meet the needs of chronically ill patients, and patients' perspectives on the difficulties of accessing care need to be better understood, particularly in poor resourced settings, to achieve this end. This paper describes the experience of poor households attem…

• Barriers to accessing PMTCT services in a rural area of South Africa

  Donald G Skinner, Sakhumzi Mfecane et al.•ARTICLE•African Journal of AIDS Research•2005

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  Despite good intentions and commitment from providers, prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services can be difficult for pregnant women to access, despite the provision of free health services for women and children. We examined the introduction of PMTCT services in a very poor rural area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, to assess the context's impact on the provision of this service. Our approach involved 13 individual in…

• Barriers to accessing PMTCT services in a rural area of South Africa

  Donald G Skinner, Sakhumzi Mfecane et al.•ARTICLE•African Journal of AIDS Research•2005

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  Despite good intentions and commitment from providers, prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services can be difficult for pregnant women to access, despite the provision of free health services for women and children. We examined the introduction of PMTCT services in a very poor rural area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, to assess the context's impact on the provision of this service. Our approach involved 13 individual in…

• Affordability, availability and acceptability barriers to health care for the chronically ill

  Open Access•Jane Goudge, Lucy Gilson et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Health Services Research•2009

  Añadir item

  BACKGROUND: There is an increasing burden of chronic illness in low and middle income countries, driven by TB/HIV, as well as non-communicable diseases. Few health systems are organized to meet the needs of chronically ill patients, and patients' perspectives on the difficulties of accessing care need to be better understood, particularly in poor resourced settings, to achieve this end. This paper describes the experience of poor households attem…

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