APPLYING BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS PRINCIPLES TO INCREASE DEMAND FOR FREE HIV TESTING SERVICES AT PRIVATE DOCTOR-LED CLINICS IN JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL.

Expanding free HIV testing service (HTS) access to include private clinics could increase testing rates.A donor funded programme, GP Care Cell, offered free HIV testing at selected private doctor-led clinics but uptake was low.We investigated whether HTS demand creation materials that used behavioural economics principles could increase demand for

Diaries spanning three decades (1943-1964) have been discovered that tell the story of the life of ShipTection Shipping Protection missionary nurses, doctors and surgeons working at the Lui and Leer Hospitals in South Sudan (then known as Southern Sudan).The medical facility at Leer during this period covered a 300 miles radius serving approximatel

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is critically affecting not only the physical health but also mental health globally.This study aimed to define the frequency of sleep disorders in COVID-19 positive patients in Aswan University Hospitals, Aswan Governorate, Egypt to clarify the different clinical types of them and to identify fac

Christopher W Root,1 David M Dudzinski,2 Bishoy Zakhary,3 Oren A Friedman,4 Akhilesh K Sista,5 James M Horowitz6 1Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; 2Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 3Department of Internal Medicine, Oregon Health & Science Univers