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HST provides free electronic access to over 500 health systems research related reports, publications and papers. Close to 300 of these are publications that have been commissioned and funded by the Trust. Topics include among others district systems development, drug supply management, human resource development, informatics, legislation, finance, environmental health, mental health, lessons learnt, nutrition and sexually transmitted diseases / HIV/AIDS. The main publication of the HST is the annual South African Health Review. From 2005 all HST publications will be available in low resolution only. To explore the range of publications HST offers use the Advanced search to search using a variety of criteria.

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Promising Practices to Build Human Resources Capacity in HIV Strategic Information
Jaskiewicz, Wanda

Countries addressing HIV epidemics must first lay the cornerstone for evidence-based planning and decision-making by gathering strategic information (SI) from national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. While national governments and development partners have made significant progress toward building national HIV M&E systems to support an...
 
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The 10 Point Plan
Health Systems Trust

In this issue...
As part of its Medium Term Strategic Framework, the National Department of Health released its priorities for the period 2009 to 2014. Also known as the 10 Point Plan, the priorities are intended to assist the country in meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and monitoring improvements in the health system. This...
 
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Annual Report 2008/09
Health Systems Trust

Message from the CEO

HST remains committed to its mission to contribute to building comprehensive, effective, efficient and equitable national health systems by supporting the implementation of functional health districts in South Africa and the Southern African region.


 
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The District Health Barometer 2008/09
Day C (eds)

The District Health Barometer's goal is to improve the quality of and access to primary health care services, by monitoring and measuring important performance indicators of the health system at district level.
 
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District Health Barometer 2008/09 Draft
Health Systems Trust

Part A: Indicator Comparisons by District

1. Input indicators

In 2008/09 the District Health Services Programme (Programme 2) spent R31.4 billion1 on health care according to Treasury's Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review2. This is up from R18.4 billion in 2005/06 and is estimated to reach R41...
 
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An Assessment of Current Support Strategies for Patients with TB in KwaZulu-Natal
Elizabeth Lutge

Poverty has long been recognized as one of the factors predisposing people to TB (Lancet 2005) and, in South Africa, many patients with TB live in poor conditions. In order to ameliorate these conditions, a few initiatives to support patients with TB have been made in KwaZulu-Natal. To date, support for TB patients has been provided in the form...
 
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