HEALTH CARE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNITY-BASED CARE: EXPERIENCES OF COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS IN LOW RESOURCE COMMUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Health care waste management in community-based care: experiences of community health workers in low resource communities in South Africa

Shoe Care Abstract Background In South Africa, community health workers (CHWs) working in community-based care (CBC) programmes provide care to patients most of whom are living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB).Although studies have shown that the caregiving activities provided by the CHWs generate health care waste (HCW), there is limited inform

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Formulation design, preparation, and in vitro and in vivo characterizations of β-Elemene- loaded nanostructured lipid carriers

Feng Shi,1 Gang Yang,1 Juan Ren,2 Teng Guo,1 Yan Du,1 Nianping Feng1 1Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China; 2Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Changhai Hospital, Shanghai, People's Republic of China Abstract: In the present study,

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