Preschool children consume diets inadequate to meet their macro and micronutrient
requirements, which ultimately affect their nutritional status due to lack of dietary diversity. A cross …

Background In South Africa, the occurrence of the double burden of malnutrition is on the rise
at a household level predisposing children and their mothers to negative health outcomes. …

The growing burden of non-communicable diseases amidst the largest burden of HIV in
South Africa leads to disease combinations of multimorbidity with the complexity of care. We …

DEBEILA, Sego; MODJADJI, Perpetua and MADIBA, Sphiwe. High prevalence of overall
overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity amongst adolescents: An emerging nutritional …

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimens have been shown to cause metabolic changes in people
living with HIV (PLWH), predisposing them to cardiometabolic disease (CVMD). However…

The rate of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections globally is alarming. Although
antiretroviral therapy (ART) improves the quality of life among this group of patients, ARTs …

Background: Despite the use of available pharmaceutical drugs, high rates of metabolic
diseases and cardiovascular disorders are alarming. This calls for alternative therapies that can …

A qualitative study was conducted to explore mothers’ insights on the growth of school-age
children in a rural Health and Demographic site of Limpopo Province, in South Africa. The …

The challenge that Africa has of dealing with multiple burdens of disease, characterised by
high rates of infectious diseases such as HIV, AIDS, and tuberculosis, alongside non-…

Despite years of interventions intended to reduce child malnutrition in South Africa, its negative
effects, stunting in particular, persist mainly among children under five years old living in …