2024 Journal Articles 
Heunis C, Van Jaarsveldt D, Chikobvu, Kigozi-Male G, Litheko M. Exploring health research priority setting in a South African province: A nominal group technique approach. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(7), 861;  2024. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21070861
 
Palmer E, Marais L, Engelbrecht M. Black women’s perceptions towards infant and child male circumcision. Matern Child Health J. 2023, 27(8),1370-1381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03693-6

Peresu E, De Graeve, Heunis JC, Kigozi NG. Cost-consequence analysis of ambulatory clinic- and home-based multidrug-resistant tuberculosis management models in Eswatini. PLOS ONE. 2024, 19(4):e0301507. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301507

2024 Book Chapters 
Heunis JC, Joubert M, Ncube A, Szarzynski J. 2024. Chapter 13: Social worker role-taking during communicable disease outbreaks in South Africa: The need for disaster management training (pp.152-164). In: S Levy, U Odera Okoye, PT Tanga, Ingram R (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on African Social Work Education (pp.152-164). Oxfordshire: Routledge International Handbook;. ISBN: 9781032322957. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003314349

Nako E, Marais L, Engelbrecht M. 2023. Management and prevention of HIV infection in migrant miners in Lesotho and South Africa: A capabilities . In Adewoyin Y (Ed). Health and medical geography in Africa: methods, applications and development linkages (pp 171-183). Berlin: Springer Nature. Hardcover  ISBN 978-3-031-41267-7, Softcover ISBN 978=3-031-41270-7, eBook ISBN 978-3-031-41268-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41268-4

2023 Journal Articles

Engelbrecht, M. Factors Associated with COVID-19-Related Stress among Female Primary Caregivers in Vulnerable Families in South Africa. Eur. J. Investig. Health Psychol. Educ. 2023, 13, 377–390. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe13020028

Kigozi Male NG, Heunis JC and Engelbrecht MC. Primary health care nurses’ mental health knowledge and attitudes towards patients and mental health care in a South African metropolitan municipality. BMC Nursing (2023) 22:25. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01188-x

Malakoane B, Chikobvu P, Heunis C, Kigozi G, Kruger W. Health managers and community representatives’ views of a system-wide intervention to strengthen public healthcare in the Free State, South Africa. Afri Health Sci. 2023;23 (1):747-64. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.79

Malakoane B, Chikobvu P, Heunis JC, Kigozi NG, Kruger WH. Implementing an intervention to improve leadership/management of public healthcare services in the Free State Province, South Africa: lessons learned. Afri Health Sci. 2023;23(1):469-82. https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v23i1.49 


2022 Chapters

Rau, A. & Coetzee, J.K. Designing for Narratives and Stories. Volume 2, Chapter 42. The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Design (ed.: Uwe Flick). London: SAGE. ISBN: 9781526484321. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529770278.n43

Angu Pineteh, Chiwaya Tiyese, Ngwi Mulu. The experiences of undocumented female Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa before and during COVID-19 pandemic. Langaa. http://www.langaa-rpcig.net/-Langaa-Editorial-Board-.html


2022 Journal Articles

Engelbrecht M, Kigozi NG, Heunis JC. Factors associated with limited vaccine literacy: lessons learnt from COVID-19. Vaccines 2022, 10, 865. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10060865

Engelbrecht M, Heunis JC, Kigozi NG. COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: Lessons for future pandemics. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19,6694. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116694

Engelbrecht M. Construct validity and reliability of the Perceived Stress Scale for nursing students in South Africa. Curationis 45(1), a2276.  https://doi.org/10.4102/curationis.v45i1.2276

Malakoane B, Heunis JC, Chikobvu P, Kigozi NG, Kruger WH. Improving public health sector service delivery in the Free State, South Africa: Development of a provincial intervention model. BMC Health Services Research 22, Article number: 486 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07777-x

Palmer E, Marais L, Engelbrecht M. Parental decision-making in infant and child male circumcision: a case study in two townships in Gauteng, South Africa. African Journal of AIDS Research 2022 Mar;21(1):32-40. https://doi:10.2989/16085906.2022.2038645

Peresu E, Heunis JC, Kigozi NG, De Graeve D. Knowledge, attitudes and practices of community treatment supporters administering multidrug-resistant tuberculosis injections: A cross-sectional study in rural Eswatini. Journal of Infections in Developing Countries. PLoS ONE 17(7): e0271362. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271362

Wouters E, Janse van Rensburg A, Engelbrecht M, Buffel V, Campbell L, Sommerland N, Rau A, Kigozi G, van Olmen J, Masquillier C. How the ‘HIV/TB co-epidemic–HIV stigma–TB stigma’ syndemic impacts onthe use of occupational health servicesfor TB in South African hospitals: astructural equation modelling analysisof the baseline data from the HaTSaHStudy (cluster RCT). BMJ Open 2022;12:e045477. https://doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045477


2021 Journal Articles

Engelbrecht MC, Heunis JC, Kigozi NG. 2021. Post-Traumatic Stress and Coping Strategies of South African Nurses during the Second Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 7919. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph18157919 Article 

Engelbrecht M, Wilke M. Factors associated with emotional exhaustion in undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students.  Afr J Health Professions Educ 2021;13(2):140-144. https://doi.org/10.7196/AJHPE.2021.v13i2.1300

Kigozi G. Construct validity and reliability of the generalised anxiety disorder-7 scale in a sample of tuberculosis patients in the Free State Province, South Africa. S Afr J Infect Dis.2021;36(1), a298. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v36i1.298

2020 Journal Articles

Engelbrecht M, Rau A, Kigozi G, Uebel K, Sommerland N, Masquillier C, Wouters E. 2020. Factors associated with healthcare workers’ fear of occupationally acquired HIV. Occupational Health Southern Africa, 26(3): 117-121. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-1f3fbf0492 Abstract

Kigozi G. 2020. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9: a study among tuberculosis patients in the Free State Province. Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 35(1):a242. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajid.v35i1.242 Abstract

Kigozi G, Heunis C, Engelbrecht M. 2020. Community health worker motivation to perform systematic household contact tuberculosis investigation in a high burden metropolitan district in South Africa. BMC Health Services Research, 20:882. https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-020-05612-9 Abstract

Malakoane B, Heunis JC, Chikobvu P, Kigozi NG, Kruger WH. 2020. Public health system challenges in the Free State, South Africa: a situation appraisal to inform health system strengthening. BMC Health Services Research, 20:58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4862-y  Abstract

Palmer E, Rau A, Engelbrecht M. 2020. Changing cultural practices: A case study of male circumcision in South Africa. American Journal of Men’s Health, 14:4. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988320927285 Abstract

Peresu E, Heunis JC, Kigozi NG, De Graeve D. 2020. Patient satisfaction with directly observed treatment and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis injection administration by lay health workers in rural Eswatini. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 12(1):a2257. https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v12i1.2257 Abstract

Peresu E, Heunis JC, Kigozi NG, De Graeve D. 2020. Task-shifting directly observed treatment and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis injection administration by lay health workers in rural Eswatini. Human Resources for Health, 18:97. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-020-00541-4 Abstract

Sommerland N, Masquillier C, Rau, AHM, Engelbrecht MC, Kigozi G, Pliakas T, Janse van Rensburg A, Wouters A. 2020. Reducing HIV- and TB-Stigma among healthcare workers in South Africa: Results of a cluster randomised trial. Social Science & Medicine, 266:113450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113450 Abstract

Rau A. 2020. Dealing with feeling: emotion, affect, and the qualitative research encounter. Qualitative Sociology Review, 16(1): 94-108. DOI: https://dx.doi. org/10.18778/1733-8077.16.1.07 (See Abstract: Dealing with Feeling)

Wouters E, Sommerland N, Masquillier C, Rau A; Engelbrecht M, Janse Van Rensburg A, Kigozi G, Ponnet K, Van Damme W. 2020. Unpacking the dynamics of double stigma: how the HIV-TB co-epidemic alters TB stigma and its management among healthcare workers. BMC Infectious Diseases, 20:106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-4816-3 (See Abstract: Unpacking the dynamics of double stigma).


2019 Books

Coetzee JK, Rau A & Wojciechowska M. (Eds). 2019. Narrating the everyday: windows on life in Central South Africa. Bloemfontein, South Africa: SUN MeDIA. ISBN: 978-1-928424-18-5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18820/9781928424192 (See Abstract: Narrating the everyday)


2019 Journal Articles

Nyblade L, Stockton MA, Giger K, Bond V, Ekstrand ML, Mc Lean R, Mitchell EMH, Nelson LRE, Sapag JC, Siraprapasiri T, Turan J & Wouters E. 2019. Stigma in health facilities: why it matters and how we can change it. BMC Med, 17: 25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1256-2 (See Abstract)

van Brakel WH, Cataldo J, Grover S, Kohrt BA, Nyblade L, Stockton M, Wouters E & Yang LH. 2019. Out of the silos: identifying cross-cutting features of health-related stigma to advance measurement and intervention. BMC Medicine, 17(13): 1-17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1245-x (See Abstract)

Engelbrecht M, Rau A, Nel P, & Wilke M. 2019. Emotional well‐being and work engagement of nurses who moonlight (dual employment) in private hospitals. Int J Nurs Pract: e12783. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijn.12783 (See Abstract)

Sommerland N, Wouters E, Masquillier C, Rau A, Engelbrecht M & Kigozi G. 2019. Factors Associated With HIV-Related Stigma Toward Colleagues in the Health Care Workforce in South Africa. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 30(4): 451-461. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/JNC.0000000000000010 (See Abstract)

Engelbrecht M, Rau A, Kigozi G, Janse van Rensburg A, Wouters E, Sommerland N, Masquillier C & Uebel K. 2019. Waiting to inhale: factors associated with healthcare workers’ fears of occupationally acquired tuberculosis (TB). BMC Infectious Diseases, 19: 475. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-019-4115-z (See Abstract)

Mofolo N, Heunis C & Kigozi GN. 2019. Towards national health insurance: Alignment of strategic human resources in South Africa. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 11(1): a1928. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v11i1.1928 (See Abstract)

Kigozi NG, Heunis JC & Engelbrecht MC. 2019. Yield of systematic household contact investigation for tuberculosis in a high-burden metropolitan district of South Africa. BMC Public Health, 19: 867. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7194-2 (See Abstract)

Janse van Rensburg A, Khan R, Fourie P & Bracke P. 2019. Politics of mental healthcare in post-apartheid South Africa. Politikon. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02589346.2019.1611300 (See Abstract)

2018 Chapters


Rau A, Elliker F & Coetzee JK. 2018. Collecting data for analyzing discourses. Chapter 19: in Flick U (Ed), SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection (Chapter 19, pp.297-313). SAGE: London. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526416070.n19 (See Abstract)

Heunis JC, Sofola O & Samson K. 2018. Prevention and control of tuberculosis in Africa. Chapter 10: In Ogunmekan DA, Seedat YK, Onajole AT & Osibogun AO (Eds), Public Health in Africa. Centre for Epidemiology and Health Development. Ibeju Lekki: Nigeria.

2018 Journal Articles


Rau A. 2018. Emotions and belonging: constructing individual experience and organizational functioning in the context of an Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) program. Qualitative Sociology Review, 14(4): 32-47. (See Abstract)

Coetzee JK & Rau A. 2018. Narratives and everyday life. Qualitative Sociology Review, 14(4): 6-14. (See Abstract)

Heggenstaller AK, Rau A, Coetzee JK, Ryen A & Smit R. 2018. Reflecting on female beauty: cosmetic surgery and (dis)empowerment. Qualitative Sociology Review, 14(4): 48-65. (See Abstract)

Chikonzo N, Rau A, Coetzee JK, Ryen A, Elliker F & Young-Hauser A. 2018. A shock to the system: HIV among older African women in Zimbabwe. Qualitative Sociology Review, 14(4): 138-152. (See Abstract)

Heggenstaller A K, Rau A, Coetzee J K, Smit R & Ryen A. 2018. Beauty and the cosmetic secret. Qualitative Sociology Review, 14(4): 66-84. (See Abstract) 

Janse  van  Rensburg  A, Engelbrecht  M,  Kigozi G  &  Van  Rensburg  D.  2018.  Tuberculosis prevention knowledge,  attitudes,  and  practices  of primary  health  care  nurses.  International Journal of Nursing Practice: e12681.  DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1111/ijn.12681 (See Abstract)Janse van  Rensburg  A, Khan  R,  Wouters E, Van  Rensburg  D, Fourie  P  &  Bracke  P.  2018. At  the  coalface  of collaborative  mental  health  care:  a  qualitative  study  of governance  and  power  in  district‐level  service provision  in South Africa.  International  Journal  of Health  Planning  and  Management, 2018.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.2593 (See Abstract)Rau A, Wouters E, Engelbrecht M, Masquillier C, Uebel K, Kigozi G, Sommerland N & Janse van Rensburg A. 2018. Towards a health-enabling working environment - developing and testing interventions to decrease HIV and TB stigma among healthcare workers in the Free State, South Africa: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 19:351. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2713-5 (See Abstract)Masquillier C, Wouters E, Sommerland N, Rau A, Engelbrecht M, Kigozi G & Janse van Rensburg A. 2018. Fighting stigma, promoting care: a study on the use of occupationally-based HIV services in the Free State Province of South Africa. AIDS Care. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2018.1468010 (See Abstract)Engelbrecht MC, Kigozi G, Janse van Rensburg AP & Van Rensburg HCJ. 2018. Tuberculosis infection control practices in a high-burden metro in South Africa: a perpetual bane for efficient primary health care service delivery. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 10(1): a1628. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/phcfm.v10i1.1628 (See Abstract)Zinatsa F, Engelbrecht M, Janse van Rensburg A & Kigozi G. 2018. Voices from the frontline: barriers and strategies to improve tuberculosis infection control in primary health care facilities in South Africa. BMC Health Services Research, 18:269. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3083-0 (See Abstract)Howell EM, Kigozi NG & Heunis JC. 2018. Community-based directly observed treatment for TB patients to improve HIV services: a cross-sectional study in a South African province. BMC Health Services Research, 18:255. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3074-1 (See Abstract)

Kigozi G, Engelbrecht M, Heunis C & Janse van Rensburg A. 2018. Household contact non-attendance of clinical evaluation for tuberculosis: a pilot study in a high burden district in South Africa. BMC Infectious Diseases, 18(1):106. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-018-3010-3 (See Abstract)

Janse van Rensburg A, Petersen I, Wouters E, Engelbrecht M, Kigozi G, Fourie P, van Rensburg D & Bracke P. 2018. State and non-state mental health service collaboration in a South African district: a mixed methods study. Health Policy and Planning, 33(4):516-527 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czy017 (See Abstract)


2017 Journal Articles


Wouters E, Masquillier C, Sommerland N, Engelbrecht M, Janse van Rensburg A, Kigozi G & Rau A. 2017. Measuring HIV- and TB-related stigma among health care workers in South Africa: a validation and reliability study. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 21(11): S19-S25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.16.0749 (See Abstract)

Kigozi NG, Heunis JC, Engelbrecht C, Janse van Rensburg AP & van Rensburg HCJ. 2017. Tuberculosis knowledge, attitudes and practices of patients at primary health care facilities in a South African metropolitan: research towards improved health education. BMC Public Health, 17: 795. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4825-3 (See Abstract)

Sommerland N, Wouters E,  Masquillier C, Engelbrecht M, Kigozi G, Uebel K, Janse van Rensburg A & Rau A. 2017. Stigma as a barrier to the use of occupational health units for tuberculosis services in South Africa. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 21(Supplement 1): S75-S80(6). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.17.0030 (See Abstract)

Engelbrecht MC, Kigozi NG, Chikobvu P, Botha S & van Rensburg HCJ. 2017. Unsuccessful TB treatment outcomes with a focus on HIV co-infected cases: a cross sectional retrospective record review in a high-burdened province of South Africa. BMC Health Services Research, 17:470. DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2406-x (See Abstract)

Liautaud A, Adu PA, Yassi A, Zungu M, Spiegel JM, Rawat A, Bryce EA & Engelbrecht MC. 2017. Strengthening HIV and tuberculosis prevention capacity among South African healthcare workers: a mixed methods study of a collaborative occupational health program. Safety and Health at Work, 9(2): 172-179. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2017.08.004 (See Abstract)

Muzigaba M, Kigozi G & Puone T. 2017. Short term and sustained effects of a health system strengthening intervention to improve mortality trends for paediatric severe malnutrition in rural South African hospitals: an interrupted time series design. South African Journal of Child Health, 11(1): 38-45. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCH.2017.v11i1.1201 (See Abstract)

Heunis C, Kigozi G, Chikobvu P, Botha S & Van Rensburg D. 2017. Risk factors for mortality in TB patients: a ten-year electronic record review in a South African province. BMC Public Health, 17: 38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3972-2 (See Abstract)

Kigozi NG, Heunis JC, Chikobvu P & van der Merwe S. 2017. Factors influencing treatment default among tuberculosis patients in a high burden province of South Africa. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 54: 95-102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2016.11.407 (See Abstract)

O’Hara LM, Yassi A, Bryce EA, Janse van Rensburg A, Engelbrecht MC, Zungu M, Nophale LE & FitzGerald JM. 2017. Infection control and tuberculosis in health care workers: an assessment of 28 hospitals in South Africa. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 21(3): 320-326. (See Abstract)

Coetzee JK & Rau A. 2017. The narrative study of lives: editorial notes. Qualitative Sociology Review (QSR), 13(1): 6-9. Available: http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/archive_eng.php (See Abstract) 

Coetzee JK & Rau A. 2017. Between enslavement and liberation: narratives of belonging from two farm workers in rural South Africa. Qualitative Sociology Review (QSR), 13(1): 10-31. Available: http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/archive_eng.php (See Abstract) 

Majali Z, Coetzee JK & Rau A. 2017. Everyday hair discourses of African black women. Qualitative Sociology Review (QSR), 13(1): 158-172. Available: http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/archive_eng.php (See Abstract) 

Moletsane M, Coetzee JK & Rau A. 2017. Life as a stranger: experiences of labour migrants from Lesotho. Qualitative Sociology Review (QSR), 13(1): 74-91. Available: http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/archive_eng.php (See Abstract) 


2016 Journal Articles


Engelbrecht MC, Janse van Rensburg A, Kigozi G, Van Rensburg HCJ. 2016. Factors associated with good TB infection control practices among primary healthcare workers in the Free State Province, South Africa. BMC Infectious Diseases, 16: 633. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1984-2 (See Abstract)

Janse van Rensburg A, Rau A, Fourie P & Bracke P. 2016. Power and integrated health care: shifting from governance to governmentality. International Journal of Integrated Care, 16(3): 17. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijic.2480 (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Rau A, Engelbrecht M, Uebel K, Siegel J, Masquillier C, Kigozi G, Sommerland N & Yassi A. 2016. The development and piloting of parallel scales measuring external and internal HIV and tuberculosis stigma among healthcare workers in the Free State Province, South Africa. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 15(62, Suppl 3): S244-S254. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/civ1185 (See Abstract)

Van Rensburg A, Engelbrecht MC, Yassi A, Nophale LE, Bryce E & Spiegel JM. 2016. Selected features of nurses’ occupational health and safety practice in three Free State provincial public hospitals. Occupational Health Southern Africa, 22(2): 8-14. (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Masquillier C & Booysen FLR. 2016. The importance of the family: a longitudinal study of the predictors of depression in HIV patients in South Africa. AIDS and Behavior, 20(8): 1591-1602. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-016-1294-0 (See Abstract)

Janse van Rensburg A & Fourie P. 2016. Health policy and integrated mental health care in the SADC region: strategic clarification using the Rainbow Model. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 10: 49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-016-0081-7 (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Booysen FLR & Masquillier C. 2016. Who should we target? The impact of individual and family characteristics on the expressed need for community-based treatment support in HIV patients in South Africa. PLoS ONE, 11(10): e0163963. (See Abstract) 

Engelbrecht MC, Janse van Rensburg A, Kigozi G, Van Rensburg HCJ. 2016. Factors associated with good TB infection control practices among primary healthcare workers in the Free State Province, South Africa. BMC Infectious Diseases, 16: 633. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-016-1984-2

Masquillier C, Wouters E, Mortelmans D, van Wyk B, Hausler H & Van Damme W. 2016. HIV/AIDS competent households: interaction between a health-enabling environment and community-based treatment adherence support for people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. PLoS ONE, 11(3): e0151379. (See Abstract) 

Martins-Fonteyn E, Loquiha O, Wouters E, Raimundo I, Hens N, Aerts M & Meulemans H. 2016. HIV susceptibility among migrant miners in Chokwe: a case study. International Journal of Health Services, 46(4): 712-733. (See Abstract) 


2015 Journal Articles


Siegel J, Yassi A, Rau A, Buxton JA, Wouters E, Engelbrecht MC, Uebel K & Nophale LE. 2015. Workplace interventions to reduce HIV and TB stigma among healthcare workers – where do we go from here? Global Public Health, 10(8): 995-1007. (See Abstract)

Khan R, Yassi A, Engelbrecht MC, Nophale L, Janse van Rensburg AP & Spiegel J. 2015. Barriers to HIV counselling and testing uptake by health workers in three public hospitals in Free State Province, South Africa. AIDS Care, 27(2): 198-205. (See Abstract)

Engelbrecht MC, Yassi, A, Spiegel JM, van Rensburg AJ, O'Hara LM, Bryce EA, Nophale LE & Rau A. 2015. Tuberculosis and blood-borne infectious diseases: workplace conditions and practices of healthcare workers at three public hospitals in the Free State. Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection, 30(1): 23-28. (See Abstract)

Peters JA, Heunis C, Kigozi G, Osoba T & Van der Walt M. 2015. Assessing integration of TB/HIV services at an antenatal care facility in Northern Cape, South Africa. Public Health Action, 5(1): 30-35. (See Abstract)

Rose A & Janse van Rensburg-Bonthuyzen E. 2015. The factors that attract healthcare professionals to and retain them in rural areas in South Africa. South African Family Practice, 57(1): 44-49. (See Abstract)

Pappin M, Wouters E, Booysen FLR & Lund C. 2015. Public sector antiretroviral treatment programme in South Africa: health care workers' attention to mental health problems. AIDS Care, 27(4): 458-465. (See Abstract)

Capurchande RD, Coene G, Roelens K & Meulemans H. 2015. Between compliance and resistance: exploring discourses on family planning in Community Health Committees in Mozambique. BMJ Open, 5: e006529. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006529 (See Abstract)

Gopichandran V, Wouters E & Chetlapalli SK. 2015. Development and validation of a socioculturally competent trust in physician scale for a developing country setting. BMJ Open, 5(4): e007305. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007305 (See Abstract)

Maimela E, Van Geertruyden JP, Alberts M, Modjadji SEP, Meulemans H, Fraeyman J & Bastiaens H. 2015. The perceptions and perspectives of patients and health care providers on chronic diseases management in rural South Africa: a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research, 15: 143. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-0812-5 (See Abstract)

Martins-Fonteyn E, Loquiha O, Wouters E, Raimundo I, Hens N, Aerts M & Meulemans H. 2015. HIV susceptibility among migrant miners in Chokwe: a case study. International Journal of Health Services, 0(0): 1-22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0020731415585988 (See Abstract)

Tsakitzidis G, Timmermans O, Callewaert N, Truijen S, Meuleman H & Van Royen P. 2015. Participant evaluation of an education module on interprofessional collaboration for students in healthcare studies. BMC Medical Education, 15: 188. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-015-0477-0 (See Abstract)


2014 Journal Articles


Yassi A, O’Hara LM, Engelbrecht MC, Uebel K, Nophale LE, Bryce EA, Buxton JA, Siegel J & Spiegel JM. 2014. Considerations and dilemmas in preparing a randomized population health intervention trial: lessons from a South African-Canadian partnership to improve HIV and tuberculosis prevention and care for health workers. Global Health Action, 7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23594 (See Abstract)

Heunis JC, Kigozi NG, Van der Merwe S, Chikobvu P & Beyers N. 2014. Sex-related trends in non-conversion of new smear-positive tuberculosis patients in the Free State, South Africa. Public Health Action, 4(1): 66-71. (See Abstract)

Kigozi NG, Heunis JC, Chikobvu P & Van der Merwe S. 2014. A retrospective analysis of two-month sputum smear non-conversion in new sputum smear positive tuberculosis patients in the Free State Province, South Africa. Journal of Public Health in Africa, 5(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2014.324 (See Abstract)

Nkoko L, Spiegel J, Rau A, Parent S & Yassi A. 2014. Reducing the risks to health care workers from blood and body fluid exposure in a small rural hospital in Thabo-Mofutsanyana, South Africa. Workplace Health & Safety, 62(9): 382-388. (See Abstract)

Rau AHM, Radloff S, Coetzee JK, Nardi C, Smit R & Matebesi SZ. 2014. Students perceiving risk: a quantitative assessment on three South African university campuses. African Sociological Review, 18(1): 65-90. (See Abstract)

Stern E, Rau AHM & Cooper D. 2014. Sexual and reproductive health perceptions and practices as revealed in the sexual history narratives of South African men living in a time of HIV/AIDS. Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS (SAHARA-J), 11(1): 233-244. (See Abstract)

Van Rensburg HCJ. 2014. South Africa's protracted struggle for equal distribution and equitable access - still not there. Human Resources for Health, 26: 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1478-4491-12-26 (See Abstract)

Masquillier C, Wouters E, Mortelmans D & le Roux Booysen F. 2014. Families as catalysts for peer adherence support in enhancing hope for people living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 17: 18802. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7448/IAS.17.1.18802 (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Masquillier C, Ponnet K & le Roux Booysen F. 2014. A peer adherence support intervention to improve the antiretroviral treatment outcomes of HIV patients in South Africa: the moderating role of family dynamics. Social Science & Medicine, 113: 145-153. (See Abstract)


2014 Chapters


Van Rensburg HCJ & Engelbrecht MC. 2014. Africans, health of. In Cockerham WC, Dingwall R & Quah S (Eds), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behaviour and Society (Vol 1., pp. 26-29). Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons. URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118410868


2013 Journal Articles


Coetzee JK, Elliker F & Rau A. 2013. Training for advanced research in the narrative study of lives within the context of political and educational transformation: a case study in South Africa. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14(2): Art 8. URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs130285 (See Abstract)

Engelbrecht MC & Janse van Rensburg AP. 2013. Tuberculosis infection control practices in PHC facilities in three districts of South Africa. Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection, 28(4): 221-226. (See Abstract)

Heunis J, Wouters E, Kigozi G, Janse van Rensburg-Bonthuyzen E & Jacobs N. 2013. TB/HIV-related training, knowledge and attitudes of community health workers in the Free State Province, South Africa. African Journal of AIDS Research (AJAR), 12(2): 113-119. (See Abstract)

Janse van Rensburg A & Van Rensburg HCJ. 2013. Nurses, industrial action and ethics: considerations from the 2010 South African public-sector strike. Nursing Ethics, 20(7): 819-837. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733012473771 (See Abstract)

Uebel KE, Joubert G, Wouters E, Mollentze WF & Van Rensburg HCJ. 2013. Integrating HIV care into primary care services: quantifying progress of an intervention in South Africa. PLoS One, 8(1): e54266. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054266 (See Abstract)

Uebel KE, Lombard C, Joubert G, Fairall LR, Bachmann MO, Mollentze WF, Van Rensburg HCJ & Wouters E. 2013. Integrating HIV care into primary care in South Africa: effect on survival of patients needing antiretroviral treatment. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 63(3): e94-e100. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0b013e318291cd08 (See Abstract)


2013 Chapters


Van Rensburg D & Heunis C (Section Eds). 2013. Part 4: health and the environment. In Pillay U, Hagg G, Nyamnjoh F with Jansen J (Eds), State of the Nation South Africa 2012-2013: Addressing Inequality and Poverty (pp. 464-577). Pretoria/Cape Town: HSRC Press. (See Abstract)

Van Rensburg D & Heunis C. 2013. Towards greater equality and equity: introducing health and the environment. In Pillay U, Hagg G, Nyamnjoh F & Jansen J (Eds), State of the Nation South Africa 2012-2013: Addressing Inequality and Poverty (pp. 469-484). Pretoria/Cape Town: HSRC Press. (See Abstract)

Heunis C. 2013. TB/HIV intervention evaluation. In McCann L (Ed.), Platform 2013: getting evidence-based development research into use in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 26-27). Development Research Uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa (DRUSSA) Programme. URL: http://www.cput.ac.za/storage/research/uptake/drussa_platform_2013.pdf


2012 Journal Articles


Wouters E, Van Damme W, Van Rensburg D, Masquillier C & Meulemans H. 2012. Impact of community-based support services on antiretroviral treatment programme delivery and outcomes in resource-limited countries: a synthetic review. BMC Health Services Research,12: 194. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-194 (See Abstract)

Wouters E. 2012. Life with HIV as a chronic illness: a theoretical and methodological framework for antiretroviral treatment studies in resource-limited settings. Social Theory and Health, 10(4): 368-391. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2012.12 (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Booysen FlR, Ponnet K & Van Loon F. 2012. Wording effects and the factor structure of the Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale in HIV/AIDS patients on antiretroviral treatment in South Africa. PLoS ONE, 7(4): e34881. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034881 (See Abstract)

Steyn F, Louw D & Van Rensburg D. 2012. Mentoring children guilty of minor first-time crimes: methods, strengths and limitations. Acta Academica, 44(4): 106-133. (See Abstract)

Steyn F. 2012. Challenges facing diversion strategies in meeting the diversion objectives of the Child Justice Act (75 of 2008). Acta Criminologica, 2: 76-86. (See Abstract)

De Wet K & du Plooy S. 2012. 'We are left in the cold': nurses' perceptions and responses to antiretroviral treatment roll-out in the Free State, South Africa. Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA-J), 9(1): 30-40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2012.665256 (See Abstract)

De Wet K. 2012. Redefining volunteerism: the rhetoric of community home-based care in (the not so new) South Africa. Community Development Journal, 7(1): 111-125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsq066 (See Abstract)


2012 Books


Van Rensburg HCJ (Ed). 2012. Health and health care in South Africa (2nd ed.). Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers. (See Summary)


2012 Chapters


Engelbrecht MC & Van Rensburg HCJ. 2012. Primary health care: nature and state in South Africa. In Van Rensburg HCJ (Ed), Health and health care in South Africa (2nd ed., pp. 483-529). Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers.

Van Rensburg HCJ, Heunis JC & Steyn F. 2012. Human resources for health and the health professions in South Africa. In Van Rensburg HCJ (Ed.), Health and health care in South Africa (2nd ed., pp. 361-431). Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers.

Van Rensburg HCJ & Engelbrecht MC. 2012. Transformation of the South African health care system: post-1994. In Van Rensburg HCJ (Ed), Health and health care in South Africa (2nd ed., pp. 121-182). Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers.

Heunis JC & Janse van Rensburg AP. 2012. Hospitals and hospital reform in South Africa. In Van Rensburg HCJ (Ed.), Health and health care in South Africa (2nd ed., pp. 535-591). Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers.

Heunis JC, Wouters E & Kigozi NG. 2012. HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis in South Africa: trends, challenges and responses. In Van Rensburg HCJ (Ed.), Health and health care in South Africa (2nd ed., pp. 293-360). Pretoria: Van Schaik Publishers.


2011 Journal Articles


Kigozi NG, Heunis JC, Wouters E & Van den Berg HS. 2011. Tuberculosis patients' reasons for, and suggestions to address, non-uptake of HIV testing: a cross-sectional study in the Free State Province, South Africa. BMC Health Services Research, 11: 110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-110 (See Abstract)

Heunis JC, Wouters E, Norton WE, Engelbrecht MC, Kigozi NG, Sharma A & Ragin C. 2011. Patient- and delivery-system factors related to acceptance of HIV counseling and testing services among TB patients in South Africa: a qualitative study with community health workers and program managers. Implementation Science, 6: 27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-27 (See Abstract)

Heunis C, Wouters E, Kigozi G, Engelbrecht M, Tsibolane Y, Van der Merwe S & Motlhanke S. 2011. Accuracy of tuberculosis routine data and nurses’ views of the TB-HIV information system in the Free State, South Africa. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 22(1): 67-73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jana.2010.06.003 (See Abstract)

Pienaar A, Swanepoel Z, Van Rensburg H & Heunis C. 2011. A qualitative exploration of resilience in pre-adolescent AIDS orphans living in a residential care facility. Journal of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS (SAHARA-J), 8(3): 128-137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17290376.2011.9724995 (See Abstract)

Kigozi NG, Heunis JC & Van den Berg HS. 2011. Tuberculosis patients’ perspectives on HIV counselling by lay counsellors vis-à-vis nurses: an exploratory study in two districts of the Free State Province, South Africa. Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, 13(1): 71-80. (See Abstract)

De Wet K, Wouters E & Engelbrecht MC. 2011. Exploring task-shifting practices in antiretroviral treatment facilities in the Free State Province, South Africa. Journal of Public Health Policy, 32(Suppl 1): S94-S101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/jphp.2011.30 (See Abstract)

Uebel KE, Fairall LR, Van Rensburg D, Mollentze WF, Bachmann MO, Lewin S, Zwarenstein M, Colvin CJ, Georgeu D, Mayers P, Faris GM, Lombard C & Bateman ED. 2011. Task shifting and integration of HIV care into primary care in South Africa: the development and content of the Streamlining Tasks and Roles to Expand Treatment and Care for HIV (STRETCH) intervention. Implementation Science, 6: 86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-86 (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Heunis C, Michielsen J, Van Loon FB & Meulemans H. 2011. The long road to universal antiretroviral treatment coverage in South Africa. Future Virology, 6(7): 801-812. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2217/fvl.11.56 (See Abstract)

Malik AU, Hill PS, Heunis C & Ulikpan A. 2011. Power politics: researching the informal social networks in health policy analysis. Pakistan Journal of Public Health, 1(1): 61-63. (See Abstract)

Van Rensburg D, Wouters E & de Wet K. 2011. The evolving socio-political context of community health worker programmes in South Africa: implications for historical analysis [Peer commentary on the journal article "The emergence of community health worker programmes in the late-apartheid era in South Africa: an historical analysis" by N. van Ginneken, S. Lewin & V. Berridge]. Social Science & Medicine, 72(7): 1021-1024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.026


2011 Policy & Strategy


North West Provincial Council on AIDS (Rau A – contributing author). 2011. HIV and AIDS, STI and TB Strategic Plan 2012-2016: North West Province. North-West Provincial Council on AIDS, Mmabatho.

Rau A. 2011. Implementation of the 2007-2011 HIV & AIDS and STI Strategic Plan: end term review, North West Province. South African National AIDS Council & North-West Provincial Council on AIDS, Pretoria and Mmabatho.

Janse van Rensburg AP, Heunis JC & Janse van Rensburg-Bonthuyzen E. 2011. Position paper to inform the Free State Growth and Development Strategy. Bloemfontein: Centre for Development Support, UFS.


2010 Journal Articles


Kigozi NG, Heunis JC, Chikobvu P, Van den Berg H, Van Rensburg HCJ & Wouters E. 2010. Predictors of uptake of human immunodeficiency virus testing by tuberculosis patients in Free State Province, South Africa. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 14(4): 399-405. (See Abstract)

Schneider H, Coetzee D, Van Rensburg D & Gilson L. 2010. Differences in antiretroviral scale up in three South African provinces: the role of implementation management. BMC Health Services Research, 10(Suppl 1): S4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-S1-S4 (See Abstract)

Uebel KE, Timmerman V, Ingle SM, Van Rensburg DHCJ & Mollentze WF. 2010. Towards universal ARV access: achievements and challenges in Free State Province, South Africa. South African Medical Journal, 100(9): 589-593. (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Heunis C, Ponnet K, Van Loon F, Booysen F le R, Van Rensburg D & Meulemans H. 2010. Who is accessing public-sector anti-retroviral treatment in the Free State, South Africa? An exploratory study of the first three years of programme implementation. BMC Public Health, 10: 387. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-387 (See Abstract)

De Wet K. 2010. The importance of ethical appraisal in social science research: reviewing a Faculty of Humanities’ Research Ethics Committee. Journal of Academic Ethics, 8(4): 301-314. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-010-9118-8 (See Abstract)

De Wet K. 2010. Les trois âges de la santé communautaire (Three periods of community health care). Sciences Sociales et Santé, 28(3): 85-107. (See Abstract)

Fairall L, Bachmann MO, Zwarenstein MF, Bateman ED, Niessen LW, Lombard C, Majara B, English R, Bheekie A, Van Rensburg D, Mayers P, Peters A & Chapman R. 2010. Cost-effectiveness of educational outreach to primary care nurses to increase tuberculosis case detection and improve respiratory care: economic evaluation alongside a randomised trial. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 15(3): 277-286. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02455.x (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Van Rensburg HCJ & Meulemans H. 2010. The National Strategic Plan of South Africa: what are the prospects of success after the repeated failure of previous AIDS policy? Health Policy and Planning, 25(3): 171-185. (See Abstract)

Rau A, Coetzee JK & Vice A. 2010. Narrating student life in a time of risk. Qualitative Sociology Review, VI(3): 81-98. URL: http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/Volume17/QSR_6_3_Rau_Coetzee_Vice.pdf (See Abstract)

Wouters E, Van Rensburg D & Meulemans H. 2010. Role of communities in HIV/ AIDS care [Letter to the editors]. Health Affairs, 29(6): 1275. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0513

Wouters E, Vermeiren P, Katabaro M & Van Damme W. 2010. Modelling social reality: limitations to measuring the impact of HIV/AIDS on rural households [Letter to the editors]. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 15(8): 955-957. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02569.x


2010 Chapters


Wouters E. 2010. No one should walk alone: achieving universal treatment access through community mobilization. In Evans T (Ed.), Young  researchers for health 2010: health systems research towards universal health coverage. Switzerland, Geneva: Global Forum for Health Research & The Lancet.


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