January 2010, Volume 100, No. 1
C ONTENTS
FROM THE EDITOR
541 South Africa’s first century 543 EDITOR’S CHOICE
CORRESPONDENCE
544 Traditional circumcision – the unkindest cut of all John Lazarus
544 Clinical haematology training in South Africa M J Coetzee
546 Vuvuzelas: Ex Africa semper aliquid novis – again?
J du T Zaaijman
546 CRP and toxic granulation
Viroj Wiwanitkit; reply by A van de Vyver
548 The UCT Department of Medicine at 90 years – continuity and change Bongani M Mayosi
IZINDABA
552 Haiti tragedy shakes up SA’s emergency response planning 556 Silver ‘porn bullet’ for information technology industry?
560 Still a long wait for approved HIV-protective gel 562 Bullish new medical measures to give more pilots wings SAMJ FORUM
ISSUES IN RESEARCH
566
Prolonged deferral of antiretroviral therapy in the SAPIT trial: Did we need a clinical trial to tell us that this would increase mortality?
Andrew Boulle, Polly Clayden, Karen Cohen, Ted Cohen, Francesca Conradie, Krista Dong, Nathan Geffen, Ashraf Grimwood, Rocio Hurtado, Christopher Kenyon, Stephen Lawn, Gary Maartens, Graeme Meintjes, Marc Mendelson, Megan Murray, Molebogeng Rangaka, Ian Sanne, David Spencer, Jantjie Taljaard, Ebrahim Variava, W D Francois Venter, Douglas Wilson
MEDICINE AND THE LAW
573
Establishing liability for harm caused to patients in a resource-deficient environment David McQuoid-Mason
IN MEMORIAM
576
Ferdie Stern
BOOK REVIEW
576
Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Control: A Global Perspective EDITORIAL
577
Intimate partner violence: Are we ready for action?
Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven SCIENTIFIC LETTERS
579
Is ‘planning’ missing from our family planning services?
Sarah Crede, Jane Harries, Deborah Constant, Theresa Hatsell Hoke, Mackenzie Green, Jennifer Moodley
580
New fly species causing human myiasis identified in Eastern Cape, South Africa S K Kuria, H J C Kingu, S D Vasaikar, J N Mkhize, J M Iisa, A Dhaffala
September 2010, Volume 100, No. 9
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C ONTENTS
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
582 Intimate partner violence, health behaviours, and chronic physical illness among South African women
Jesse D Gass, Dan J Stein, David R Williams, Soraya Seedat 586 Guns and gender-based violence in South Africa
Naeemah Abrahams, Rachel Jewkes, Shanaaz Mathews
589 Towards universal ARV access: Achievements and challenges in Free State Province, South Africa
Kerry E Uebel, Venessa Timmerman, Suzanne M Ingle, H C J van Rensburg, Willie Mollentze 594
Epidemiology of conventional cardiovascular risk factors among hypertensive subjects
with normal impaired fasting glucose A A Akintunde
598
Dual time-point FDG PET/CT for differentiating benign from malignant solitary pulmonary nodules in a TB endemic area
Mike Machaba Sathekge, Alex Maes, Hans Pottel, Anton Stoltz, Christophe van de Wiele
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Clinical predictors of low CD4 count among HIV-infected pulmonary tuberculosis clients: A health facility-based survey
Chidzewere Nzou, Rose A Kambarami, Francis E Onyango, Chiratidzo E Ndhlovu, Vasco Chikwasha
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