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Report on weekly deaths in South Africa: Week 7
No full textThis report provides estimates of the weekly number of deaths of all persons in South Africa for epidemiological Week 7 of 2022, covering the period 13 – 19 Feb 2022
Investigating the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on interpersonal violence in South Africa
No full textThe 14th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion will be held from 27-30 November 2022 in Adelaide, Australia. Hosted by the Public Health Association of Australia and Co-Sponsored by the World Health Organization, and other key national and international organisations, Safety 2022 aims to bring together the global injury prevention community to continue the successful world conferences highlighting the important research, work and advocacy in injury prevention and safety promotion.Background
South Africa’s (SA’s) response to the Covid-19 pandemic included rapid testing, social distancing, quarantining and a stringent
five-phased lockdown approach. The necessitated countrywide lockdown restricted movement to the purchase of essential
items, and alcohol and tobacco sales bans. This overlapped with a substantial decrease in injury mortality and hospital
trauma cases. It is unclear whether lockdown restrictions decreased overall exposure to violence in public spaces or whether
it increased in the domestic setting, where women and children were possibly more vulnerable to some adult males as the
main perpetrators of violence.
Methods
We conducted a retrospective review of post-mortem reports using a multistage random sample, stratified by province and
mortuary size. The study period from April 2020 to March 2021 spans lockdown levels and alcohol bans. The sample
comprises approximately 30,000 records from 81 mortuaries, which will be weighted to a national estimate. Age-specific and
age-standardized mortality rates will be calculated for cause of death by sex for the study period and for combinations of
lockdown-related restrictions and alcohol sales bans. Comparative rates for corresponding periods in 2009 and 2017 will be
calculated.
Results
The injury mortality profile for SA and rates during the Covid-19 pandemic will be presented. This will identify any increase or
decrease in the causes of injury by sex during the national response to the pandemic, particularly for interpersonal violence.
Conclusion
As the third nationally representative sample of injury-related mortality, the findings will guide future emergency crisis
response in high injury settings such as SA
AIDS 2022: What communities should take away from the science?
No full textPresentation at the APHA & DTHF engagement forum at the AIDS 2022 Conference
Development of text-messaging to support the South African diabetes prevention program.
No full textPoster presentation at the 31st European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular protection, Athens, Greece, 17 - 20 June 2022
Factors that influence parents' views and practices regarding routine childhood vaccination: Findings from a Cochrane qualitative evidence synthesis
No full textDialogue on Social Sciences and Immunization, 30 November 2022, Cape Town
Passive therapies
No full textPresented at the Keystone Symposia, Next Generation HIV Vaccines & Therapies, Canada
The researchers on whose shoulders we stand
No full textSVRI Forum Conference, 19-23 September 2022, Cancun, Mexic
Building the evidence between gender-based violence and maternal and perinatal health: A South African bio-behavioural longitudinal study
No full textKeynote addresses presented at the Grand Challenges Africa Convening Meeting: 25-27 May 2022, Nairobi, Kenya
Longitudinal risk for HIV and the trajectory of psychiatric disorders following rape: Findings from the Rape Impact Cohort Evaluation (RICE) Study
No full textKeynote address presented at the University Stellenbosch, Department: Psychology Department Colloquium, 6 September 2022, Cape Town (online)
The global Parkinson's genetics program (GP2) Conference
No full textOral presentation presented at Madrid, Spain.No abstract available