Katinka de Wet

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of the Free State

Reverse innovation is the flow of ideas from lower to higher income countries. This has received growing attention in healthcare research for its potential to provide cost-effective solutions to pervasive health inequities, human resource shortages and rising health expenditures. Even though the underlying premise has its merits, the use of the ter...

Volume 23 (2022/2023) of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook focusses on the issues of digital entrepreneurship, digital start-ups, and digital business opportunities in Africa. It investigates links between digitalization and development of productive capacities. It deals with business opportunities created by the digital transformation....

No datasets are available on the basis of confirmed familial breast cancer patients and their respective mutation status for the South African Indian population. This dataset contains information collected in South Africa specifically for the South African Indian population (n = 223). The data involved a combined collection of laboratory confirmed...

African family life in South Africa’s post-apartheid context is shaped by the socio-political history of the country. Despite various attempts to address the remnants of poverty, unequal distribution of resources and the lack of livelihood services still exist. African families from resource poor areas of townships in South Africa are still faced w...

It is commonly thought that breast cancer, like many other cancers, is an illness equivalent to a death sentence. Though this may be true in some cases, the majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer do survive this illness. Breast cancer is a growing illness and is continuing to affect women worldwide, including developing countries like South...

South Africa has the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world and also boasts the most comprehensive antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme to date. Long-term ART adherence requires a range of identity negotiations in order for treatment success to materialise in the long term. However, some patients on ART develop a treatment side effe...

This article presents findings from a longitudinal qualitative study (48 in-depth interviews with 12 women on antiretroviral treatment (ART)) exploring the experience of living with HIV as a chronic illness in South Africa by applying the structural and interactionist perspectives on chronic illness. The structural perspective indicates that the il...

Background: In South Africa, nurses are the largest category of the health care providers. Their optimal performance is critical for the successful implementation of impending health sector reforms. Objective: This paper examines the occurrence of agency nursing, moonlighting, and overtime among nurses in South Africa, and the factors influencin...

The unprecedented roll-out of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africa is a complex process where no previous endeavour exists that can measure, predict, or direct an intervention of this scale. In the Free State province, unique characteristics and problems distinguish its ART programme, although countrywide problems also occur within the prov...

The extent of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa complicates the daunting task of rendering a basic health service to HIV-infected individuals. In light of human resource shortages and financial constraints, but also closely linked to a much politicized notion, the ‘community’ was called upon to become active in volunteering activities. Since 20...

There is good progress with the implementation of South Africa's antiretroviral treatment program. The country, however, faces human resource shortages that could be addressed through appropriate task shifting. During 2009, we studied task shifting from nurses to community health workers (CHWs) for HIV treatment and care at 12 primary health-care c...

This commentary discusses an article on the emergence and characteristics of community health worker (CHW) programs in the late-apartheid era in South Africa. It explains substantive issues and deficiencies in terms of: comparing socio-historical and socio-political periods romanticizing the CHW initiatives of the late-apartheid era concentration o...

Research Ethics Committees (RECs) or Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are rapidly becoming indispensable mechanisms in the overall workings of university institutions. In fact, the ethical dimension is an important aspect of research governance processes present in institutions of higher learning. However, it is often deemed that research in the...

A community health care-approach has been topical on three different occasions in South Africa's health care history. Each period, which include the 1940s, the 1980s and post-apartheid, have engaged with community health care to a certain degree. This was done following a wide array of crises that greatly influenced the health of the country's blac...

Three ages of community health care in South Africa A community health care-approach has been topical on three different occasions in South Africa’s health care history. Each period, which include the 1940s, the 1980s and post-apartheid, have engaged with community health care to a certain degree. This was done following a wide array of crises that...

À trois reprises au cours de l’histoire sud-africaine, une approche de santé communautaire a été d’actualité et ce afin de répondre aux problèmes sanitaires de la population noire dans le pays. Chacune des périodes, à savoir les années 1940, les années 1980 et la période postapartheid, témoigne d’un enchevêtrement spécifique de crises lié à cette o...