The individual stories of migrant women are essential in understanding if HIV healthcare strategies and programmes are working.
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The experiences of non-nationals in South Africa’s public health care system are more complex and varied than implied by the dominant discourse on “medical xenophobia”
Excluding international migrants from the public health care system can result in a population wide risk.
Health and demographic surveillance systems are important to understand people and the societies that they live in.
South Africa and Zimbabwe have made significant strides to roll out antiretrovirals. But the regional expansion of treatment programmes still needs work.
When people migrate they can end up worse off when it comes to getting access to health care. Analysing migration trends can help drive local public health policy towards the correct targets.
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Chief Information Officer at the Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of Demography, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Sasha Frade is a PhD student, as well as an Associate Lecturer, in the Demography and Population Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Doctoral Researcher, School of Public Health and Public Health Technical Advisor, Anova Health Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher in Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand