Objectives. To make quantitative estimates of the burden of disease attributable to alcohol use by sex and age group in South Africa in 2000. Design. The analysis follows the World Health Organization comparative risk ...

Background: Antiretroviral treatment (ART) has substantially reduced morbidity and mortality for HIV patients. In South Africa, with the largest ART programme globally, attention is needed not only on the further expansion ...

Background: Globally, illness and life expectancy follow a social gradient that puts people of lower socioeconomic status (SES) at higher risk of dying prematurely. Alcohol consumption has been shown to be a factor ...