Anna Versfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 186949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Versfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Versfeld |
| SIGNATURE | VERSFELD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6741-8095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond metrics
Global funding for tuberculosis (TB) falls far short of estimated needs, often prioritizing commodities and service delivery. TB communities, including people affected by TB, remain underfunded and underrepresented in programme planning. Despite this TB-affected communities have, over the past decade, driven significant progress in becoming recognized actors in national and global TB responses. These gains have been largely supported by the Stop …
Quiet complicity
Barriers to Access of Healthcare Services for Rural Women—Applying Gender Lens on TB in a Rural District of Sindh, Pakistan
Significant barriers are faced by women in accessing TB care in rural districts of Pakistan. Program implementers in high burden countries should shift towards improved gender-responsive TB programming
Empathic response and no need for perfection
The importance of community involvement in public health research processes is well established. The literature is, however, less forthcoming about processes of community inclusion in public health project implementation, especially when it comes to projects focusing on key populations. The Step Up Project is the first multi-city harm reduction service provision project for people who inject drugs in South Africa. Since inception, the Project has…
The time of youth
AcknowledgementsI am supported by an Innovation Doctoral Scholarship from the National Research Fund, a UCT Merit Scholarship and the David and Elaine Potter Foundation
Generational change in Manenberg
This Article examines generational shifts in possibilities for the development of women's positive personhood in Manenberg. In this poor residential area on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, the effects of democratisation have been contradictory and generationally uneven for women. Building on established theories of female ordentlikheid (respectability), supplemented by detailed ethnographic research, I suggest that historical structural…
Generational change in Manenberg
This Article examines generational shifts in possibilities for the development of women's positive personhood in Manenberg. In this poor residential area on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, the effects of democratisation have been contradictory and generationally uneven for women. Building on established theories of female ordentlikheid (respectability), supplemented by detailed ethnographic research, I suggest that historical structural…
Quiet complicity
Generational change in Manenberg
This Article examines generational shifts in possibilities for the development of women's positive personhood in Manenberg. In this poor residential area on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, the effects of democratisation have been contradictory and generationally uneven for women. Building on established theories of female ordentlikheid (respectability), supplemented by detailed ethnographic research, I suggest that historical structural…
The time of youth
AcknowledgementsI am supported by an Innovation Doctoral Scholarship from the National Research Fund, a UCT Merit Scholarship and the David and Elaine Potter Foundation
Empathic response and no need for perfection
The importance of community involvement in public health research processes is well established. The literature is, however, less forthcoming about processes of community inclusion in public health project implementation, especially when it comes to projects focusing on key populations. The Step Up Project is the first multi-city harm reduction service provision project for people who inject drugs in South Africa. Since inception, the Project has…
Barriers to Access of Healthcare Services for Rural Women—Applying Gender Lens on TB in a Rural District of Sindh, Pakistan
Significant barriers are faced by women in accessing TB care in rural districts of Pakistan. Program implementers in high burden countries should shift towards improved gender-responsive TB programming
Quiet complicity
Beyond metrics
Global funding for tuberculosis (TB) falls far short of estimated needs, often prioritizing commodities and service delivery. TB communities, including people affected by TB, remain underfunded and underrepresented in programme planning. Despite this TB-affected communities have, over the past decade, driven significant progress in becoming recognized actors in national and global TB responses. These gains have been largely supported by the Stop …
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Community engagement (2 works) · Focus group (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)