Table of Contents
Editorials
| Asthma and Arthritis: Are there any similarities? | |
| Bhadrish Vallabh, Dhamend Lutchman | 3 |
Letters to the editor
| Mosquito Vectors of Human Disease in South | |
| C F van der Merwe | 5 |
Forum
| Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) in District Health Services of Gauteng, South Africa | |
| Shabir A H Moosa | 6 |
InfoPOEMs
| InfoPoems Various Topics | |
| Editorial Office | 12-13 |
Original Research
| Morphine use in the last six days of life of patients with HIV/AIDS at the inpatient unit of a South African hospice implementing the ICHC model | |
| R Els, H M Power | 14 |
| Profile of registrars and reasons for specialisation | |
| M S Green, M Nel, E AM Prinsloo | 15 |
| How the families of the victims of suicide through self-incineration function before and after the event – a qualitative assessment | |
| L H Mabuza, G A Ogunbanjo, R N Malete | 16 |
| Alcohol and drug problems and sexual and physical abuse at three urban high schools in Mthatha | |
| O A Betancourt, M M Herrera | 17 |
CPD
| Paediatric topics for SA Family Practice | |
| D F Wittenberg | 18 |
| Gastroenteritis in young children | |
| D F Wittenberg | 20 |
| The burden of pneumococcal disease in children – advances in the fight of this epidemic | |
| P M Jeena | 26 |
| Asthma Control – Is there a problem? | |
| R J Green | 32 |
| Symptomatic treatment of upper respiratory tract symptoms in children | |
| R J Green | 38 |
| Pertussis – An update for general practice | |
| A Madide, M Cotton | 44 |
| Paediatric ophthalmology - What every GP should know | |
| P Roux | 47 |
| CPD Questionnaire | |
| Editorial Office | 52 |
Review Articles
| Cardiovascular genetic assessment and treatment in middle age to reduce the risk of heart disease and dementia in old age | |
| M J Kotze, R Thiart, F J Hugo, F CW Potocnik | 53 |
| Chikungunya Fever | |
| SA Society for Travel Medicine | 55 |
| The experience of the Bela Bela HIV prevention group with the roll out of Antiretroviral therapy at the Primary Health Care level | |
| N O Ndjeka, C Manhaeve | 56 |
Regulars
| SAFP Newsroom | |
| Editorial Office | 10 |
| MPS Case Reports (At risk of pregnancy) | |
| Editorial Office | 58 |
| Medifile Drug Information bulletin | |
| Yolande Langa, J Noble | 60 |
SA Fam Pract | ISSN: 1726-426X
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