Publications

Articles

BESTER CI & ENGELBRECHT MC
Job satisfaction and dissatisfaction of professional nurses in PHC facilities in the Free State. Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, 11(1): 104-117.

DE WET K
Les trois âges de la santé communautaire (Three periods of community health care). Sciences Sociales et Santé – accepted.

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
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.

PELTZER, K., SIMBAYI, L., KALICHMAN, S., JOOSTE, S., CLOETE, A., & MBELLE, N.
Drug Use and HIV Risk Behaviour in Three Urban South African Communities. 2009. J.Soc. Sci, 18(2), 143-149.

PELTZER, K., PHASWANA-MAFUYA, N., & TREGER, L.
Use of traditional and complementary health practices in prenatal, delivery and postnatal care in the context of HIV transmission from mother to child (PMTCT) in the Western Cape, South Africa. 2009. Afr. J. Trad. CAM, 6(2), 155-162.

RISPEL, L.C., PELTZER, K., PHASWANA-MAFUYA, N., METCALF, C.A., & TREGER, L.
Assessing missed opportunities for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in an Eastern Cape local service area. 2009. South African Medical Journal,99(3), 173-179.

STEYN F, SCHNEIDER H, ENGELBRECHT MC, JANSE VAN RENSBURG-BONTHUYZEN E, JACOBS N & VAN RENSBURG HCJ
Scaling up access to antiretroviral drugs in a middle-income country: public sector drug delivery in the Free State, South Africa. AIDS Care, 21(1): 1-6.

WOUTERS, E
Het geheim voorbij. Sociaal kapitaal als hefboom in de strijd tegen HIV/AIDS in Zuid-Afrika. Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 30(2): 176-195.

WOUTERS E
Mobilising the community in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The Lancet, 374(9700): 1501.

WOUTERS E, HEUNIS JC, VAN RENSBURG HCJ & MEULEMANS H
Physical and emotional health outcomes after 12 months of public-sector ART in the Free State Province of South Africa: a longitudinal study using structural equation modelling. BMC Public Health, 9: 103.

WOUTERS E, MEULEMANS H & VAN RENSBURG HCJ
Slow to share: social capital and its role in public HIV disclosure among public sector ART patients in the Free State Province of South Africa. AIDS Care, 21(4): 411- 421.

WOUTERS E, VAN DAMME W, VAN LOON F, VAN RENSBURG HCJ & MEULEMANS H
Predictors of public-sector antiretroviral treatment outcomes in South Africa: community support as an underexploited resource. Social Science and Medicine, 69(8): 1177-1185.

WOUTERS E, VAN LOON F, VAN RENSBURG HCJ & MEULEMANS H
Community support and disclosure of serostatus to family members by public-sector ART patients in the Free State Province of South Africa. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 23(5): 357-364.

WOUTERS E, VAN RENSBURG HCJ, VAN LOON F & MEULEMANS H
State of the ART Programme: clinical effectiveness and physical and emotional quality-of-life improvements in the Free State Province, South Africa. AIDS Care, 21(11): 1401-1411.

Books/volumes and chapters in books/volumes

ENGELBRECHT M, VAN DEN BERG H & BESTER C
Burnout and compassion fatigue: the case of professional nurses in primary health care facilities in the Free State Province, South Africa. In Schwartzhoffer, RV (Ed.). Psychology of burnout: predictors and coping mechanisms. New York: Nova Science Publishers.

WOUTERS E
Leven met HIV/AIDS en het gebruik van antiretrovirale geneesmiddelen in Zuid-Afrika. In Bracke, P. (Ed.). Ziekte en gezondheid: sociale determinanten en maatschappelijke gevolgen. Leuven: Acco.

Technical reports

HEUNIS C, ENGELBRECHT M, KIGOZI G, PIENAAR A & VAN RENSBURG D
Counselling and testing for HIV/AIDS among TB patients in the Free State - fact-finding research to inform intervention. Bloemfontein: CHSR&D (full text: www.ufs.ac.za/tbhctreport).

Presentations

International

BOOYSEN F LE R
Labour market outcomes among adults enrolled in the Free State Province’s public-sector Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) Programme. 4th South African Aids Conference on Scaling up for Success, Durban, South Africa: 31 March – 4 April.

BOOYSEN F LE R
Labour-market outcomes among adults enrolled in the Free State Province’s public-sector Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) Programme (2004-08). World Congress of the International Health Economics Association (IHEA), Beijing, China: 11-15 July.

BOOYSEN F LE R
HIV and AIDS and the global financial and economic storm: thunderbolt or silver lining? Health Economics & Policy Network in Africa (HEPNet) workshop on ‘The global economic crisis and health in Africa: Effects and mitigation’, Kampala, Uganda: 17-19 November.

BOOYSEN F LE R, BHARGAVA A, DE WALQUE D, OVER M, WALSH C & COETZEE J
Early nutritional feats of ART treatment in the Free State Province, South Africa (poster presentation). 5th Conference of the International AIDS Society (IAS) on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, Cape Town, South Africa: 19-22 July.

BOOYSEN F LE R, DE WALQUE D, OVER M & BHARGAVA A
With a little help from my friends: demand for membership of HIV/AIDS support groups among public-sector ART clients in the Free State Province, South Africa. 9th International AIDS Impact Conference, Gaborone, Botswana: 22-25 September.

BOOYSEN F & DE WET K
Predictors of patient retention in the South African public-sector ART Programme (poster presentation). 5th Conference of the International AIDS Society (IAS) on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, Cape Town, South Africa: 19-22 July.

BOOYSEN F LE R & PAPPIN M
Prevalence and predictors of anxiety and depression in adults enrolled in the public sector ART Programme in the Free State Province, South Africa. 4th South African Aids Conference on Scaling up for Success, Durban, South Africa: 31 March – 4 April.

DE WET K
Task-shifting: a concept still in its infancy. 4th South African Aids Conference on Scaling up for Success, Durban, South Africa: 31 March – 4 April.

HEUNIS JC, KIGOZI GN & WOUTERS E
Uptake of HIV counselling and testing by TB patients in two Free State districts: impeding and facilitating factors (poster presentation). 4th South African AIDS Conference on Scaling for up for Success, Durban, South Africa: 1-4 April.

KIGOZI GN & HEUNIS JC
Tuberculosis patients’ views on HIV counselling by lay counsellors compared to nurses: an exploratory study in four local municipalities in the Free State Province (poster presentation). 4th South African AIDS Conference on Scaling for up for Success, Durban, South Africa: 1-4 April.

KIGOZI GN, HEUNIS JC & ENGELBRECHT MC
Exploring nurses’ and tuberculosis patients’ perspectives of lay HIV counselling in the Free State Province, South Africa. 17th Conference of The Union Africa Region on Lung Health and the Strengthening of Health Systems in Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: 24-26 June.

KIGOZI GN, HEUNIS JC & CHIKOBVU P
Urban tuberculosis patients’ TB-HIV knowledge and beliefs, and attitudes towards HIV testing – an exploratory study in the Free State Province, South Africa (poster presentation). 8th International Conference on Urban Health on Meeting Urban Health Needs Through Innovative Research, Policies and Interventions, Nairobi, Kenya: 19-23 October.

PAPPIN M, BOOYSEN F LE R & WOUTERS E
Prevalence and predictors of anxiety and depression in adults enrolled in the public-sector ART Programme in the Free State. AIDS Impact Conference, Gaborone, Botswana: 22-25 September.

SCHNEIDER H, COETZEE D, ENGELBRECHT M & VAN RENSBURG HCJ
Programme management and access/coverage of ART: a comparison of three provinces in South Africa (poster presentation). 5th Conference of the International AIDS Society (IAS) on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, Cape Town, South Africa: 19-22 July.

VAN RENSBURG D & WOUTERS E
ART in the Free State: progress, challenges and research findings. Interdisciplinary joint presentation at the Seminar of the Public Health Programme of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium: 3 June.

WOUTERS E
Community support and disclosure of serostatus to family members by public-sector ART patients in the Free State Province of South Africa. Session Keynote Speaker at the 4th South African AIDS Conference on Scaling up for Success, Durban, South Africa: 31 March – 3 April.

WOUTERS E & HEUNIS JC
Community support and disclosure of serostatus to family members by public-sector ART patients in the Free State Province of South Africa (poster presentation). 4th South African AIDS Conference on Scaling for up for Success, Durban, South Africa: 1-4 April.

WOUTERS E & VAN RENSBURG HCJ
ART in the Free State: progress, challenges and research findings. Interdisciplinary Seminar of the Public Health Programme at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium: 3 June.

National and local

BOOYSEN F LE R, BHARGAVA A, DE WALQUE D, OVER M & WALSH C
Food for thought: nutrition and public-sector ART in South Africa’s Free State Province. 5th SAHARA Conference on Socio-cultural Responses to HIV, Midrand: 30 November – 3 December.

BOOYSEN F LE R, DE WALQUE D, OVER M & BHARGAVA A
With a little help from my friends: demand for membership of HIV/AIDS support groups among public-sector ART clients in the Free State Province, South Africa. Biennial Conference of the Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA), Port Elizabeth: 7-9
September.

BOOYSEN F LE R, DE WALQUE D, OVER M & BHARGAVA A
With a little help from my friends: the potential role of HIV/AIDS support groups in public sector ART programmes. 5th SAHARA Conference on Socio-cultural Responses to HIV, Midrand: 30 November – 3 December.

BOOYSEN F LE R & PAPPIN M
Prevalence and predictors of symptoms of anxiety and depression among patients initiating antiretroviral treatment in the Free State. 5th SAHARA Conference on Sociocultural Responses to HIV, Midrand: 30 November – 3 December.

DE WET K
Task-shifting: a concept still in its infancy. Staff Seminar of Centre for Health Systems Research & Development, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein: 17 April.

HEUNIS JC, KIGOZI GN & ENGELBRECHT MC
Perspectives on the uptake of HIV counselling and testing by TB patients in Lejweleputswa and Thabo Mofutsanyana in the Free State Province. 5th SAHARA Conference on Socio-cultural Responses to HIV, Midrand: 30 November – 3 December.

JANSE VAN RENSBURG A, STEYN F & FOSTER H
Facilitators and inhibitors of violence at schools: lessons from Moakeng (Kroonstad) in the Free State Province. Bi-annual Conference of the Criminological and Victimological Society of South Africa, UNISA, Pretoria: 28-30 September.

KIGOZI GN & HEUNIS JC
Factors associated with uptake of HIV counselling and testing by TB patients in two districts of the Free State Province, South Africa. Feedback meeting, South Africa TB and AIDS Training (SATBAT), Cape Town: 18 July.

KIGOZI GN & HEUNIS JC
Uptake of HIV testing by tuberculosis patients in two districts of the Free State: line manager and lay worker perspectives of barriers and facilitating factors (poster presentation). MRC Colloquium on 40 years of TB, Medical Research Council, Cape
Town: 3-4 June.

PIENAAR A, MACHERE M & SMIT B
Fieldwork (2008/9): experiences, challenges and suggestions for the way forward. Staff Seminar, Centre for Health Systems Research & Development, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein: 6 November.

WOUTERS E
Building HIV/AIDS care capacity in society: a sociological study of achievements and challenges of antiretroviral treatment rollout in a resource-limited setting. Staff Seminar, Centre for Health Systems Research & Development, University of the
Free State, Bloemfontein: 17 April.

Study Guidance

Completed doctoral studies – with supervisors

DE REUCK C
PhD (Sociology): HIV/AIDS in the Free State: assessing gender needs and interests for improved policy implementation.
Profs Engela Pretorius (Faculty of the Humanities, UFS) and Dingie van Rensburg (CHSR&D).

LOPEZ MI
PhD (Health Economics): HIV/AIDS policies and absorptive capacity in South Africa: identifying the bottlenecks, unleashing the capacity. Profs Edina Sinanovic (Health Economics Unit, University of Cape Town) and Frikkie Booysen (CHSR&D and Department of Economics, UFS).

WOUTERS E
PhD (Sociology): Physical and emotional health outcomes of public sector ART in the Free State, South Africa. Profs Dingie van Rensburg (CHSR&D) and Herman Meulemans (Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp).

Current doctoral studies – with supervisors

GILL W
PhD (Interdisciplinary): The impact of HAART on sexual behaviour in Botswana. Profs Christo Heunis (CHSR&D) and Anet Louw (Department of Psychology, UFS).

HLOPHE H
PhD (Development Studies): The role of treatment buddies in the public-sector Antiretroviral Treatment Programme in the Free State. Profs Frikkie Booysen (CHSR&D and Department of Economics, UFS) and Helen Schneider (CHSR&D and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, UCT).

JACOBS N
PhD (Development Studies): Sexual risk behaviour in the Free State in the era of antiretroviral treatment (ART). Prof Frikkie Booysen (CHSR&D and Department of Economics, UFS) and Dr Edwin Wouters (CHSR&D and Department of Sociology and Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, University of Antwerp).

JANSE VAN RENSBURG-BONTHUYZEN E
PhD (Sociology): Past and present public health strategies to deal with tuberculosis in South Africa: a critical study. Profs Dingie van Rensburg (CHSR&D) and Engela Pretorius (Faculty of the Humanities, UFS).

KIGOZI GN
PhD (Interdisciplinary): Facilitating factors and barriers to the uptake of HIV counseling and testing among tuberculosis patients in the Free State Province (South Africa). Prof Christo Heunis (CHSR&D) and Dr Henriëtte van den Berg (Department of Psychology, UFS).

PAPPIN M
PhD (Development Studies): An integrated, multi-sectoral policy response to anxiety and depression in the public sector antiretroviral treatment (ART) Programme in the Free State. Dr Edwin Wouters (CHSR&D and Department of Sociology and Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, University of Antwerp) and Prof Crick Lund (Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, UCT).

STEYN F
PhD (Criminology): Approaches to diversion of child offenders in South Africa: a comparative analysis of programme theories. Profs Dap Louw (Department of Psychology, UFS) and Dingie van Rensburg (CHSR&D).

UEBEL K
PhD (Internal Medicine): Developing, implementing and evaluating a practical approach to integrating HIV care into primary health care services in the Free State. Profs Dingie van Rensburg (CHSR&D) and Willie Mollentze (Department of Internal
Medicine, UFS).

WILKE M
PhD (Nursing): Models of care for antiretroviral treatment delivery: a faith-based response. Profs Yvonne Botma (Nursing, UFS) and Dingie van Rensburg (CHSR&D).

Completed Master’s studies – with supervisors

GWARISA N
MDS: An investigation into the factors influencing uptake of HIV testing among pregnant women accessing antenatal care services in rural Zimbabwe: a case study of Mutoko District Hospital. Prof Christo Heunis and Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

KASONKA C
MDS: Exploring the role of community volunteers in HIV counselling and testing in Chongwe District, Zambia. Prof Christo Heunis and Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

MOTLOLOMETSI W
MDS: Determining the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of midwives towards completion of the partogram. Dr Michelle Engelbrecht (CHSR&D).

MTONGA-MUKUMBUTA P
MDS: An exploratory study on land tenure security in the context of HIV/AIDS among widows in Moonzwe, Zambia. Prof Christo Heunis (CHSR&D).

TLALI L
MDS: Nature and management of patient complaints at PHC facilities in Botshabelo, Free State: a descriptive exploration. Francois Steyn (CHSR&D and Department of Social Work and Criminology, University of Pretoria).

Current Master’s studies – with supervisor

JAMES E
MDS: Reproductive health needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Epworth peri-urban residential area in Harare, Zimbabwe. Dr Michelle Engelbrecht (CHSR&D).

JANSE VAN RENSBURG AP
MSocSc (Criminology): Dimensions, coping strategies and management of schoolbased violence in the Free State. Francois Steyn (CHSR&D and Department of Social Work and Criminology, University of Pretoria) and Herma Foster (Department of Criminology, UFS).

KASONKA C
MDS: Exploring community perceptions of volunteer HIV counsellors and testers. Prof Christo Heunis and Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

MACHERE M
MDS: Effectiveness of PMTCT: knowledge and experiences of mothers in Free State communities. Drs Michelle Engelbrecht (CHSR&D) and Nola Redelinghuys (Department of Sociology, UFS).

MASANGO M
MDS: Reproductive health needs of street children in Harare, Zimbabwe. Dr Michelle Engelbrecht (CHSR&D).

MASHAPA F
MDS: Reasons for low uptake of men in voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services in Swaziland: a case study of the New Start Programme. Prof Christo Heunis (CHSR&D).

MURANDU C
MDS: Correlates of male participation in the Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission (PMTCT) Programme at Seke North Clinic, Makoni District, Zimbabwe. Prof Christo Heunis and Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

MUYUNDA L
MDS: Investigating current perceptions, attitudes and practices towards tuberculosis among people living with HIV and community care givers in Ng’ombe Compound in Lusaka, Zambia. Prof Christo Heunis and Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

SAKA L
MDS: Investigating the impact of culture on the uptake of antiretroviral therapy services in Mwanachingwala area, Mazabuka District in Zambia: a cultural perspective. Prof Christo Heunis and Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

SEREKOANE J
MA (Anthropology): The socio-cultural context of patients undergoing antiretroviral treatment in Petrusburg: an anthropological perspective. Profs Dingie van Rensburg (CHSR&D) and Piet Erasmus (Department of Anthropology, UFS).

VAN DE WATER, P
MA (Sociology): Blood donation: why do people donate blood? Dr Edwin Wouters (CHSR&D and Department of Sociology and Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, University of Antwerp).