Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 3 , Pages 157-164 , August 2009

Managing type 2 diabetes in Soweto—The South African Chronic Disease Outreach Program experience

  • Ivor Katz

      Affiliations

    • Dumisani Mzamane African Institute of Kidney Disease, University of the Witwatersrand, Old Potch Road, Diepkloof, Soweto, South Africa
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +27 835446364; fax: +27 119331514.
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  • Helen Schneider

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Center for Health Policy, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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  • Zodwa Shezi

      Affiliations

    • Dumisani Mzamane African Institute of Kidney Disease, University of the Witwatersrand, Old Potch Road, Diepkloof, Soweto, South Africa
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  • Golebemang Mdleleni

      Affiliations

    • Dumisani Mzamane African Institute of Kidney Disease, University of the Witwatersrand, Old Potch Road, Diepkloof, Soweto, South Africa
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  • Trevor Gerntholtz

      Affiliations

    • Dumisani Mzamane African Institute of Kidney Disease, University of the Witwatersrand, Old Potch Road, Diepkloof, Soweto, South Africa
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  • Omar Butler

      Affiliations

    • Dumisani Mzamane African Institute of Kidney Disease, University of the Witwatersrand, Old Potch Road, Diepkloof, Soweto, South Africa
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  • Lenore Manderson

      Affiliations

    • Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    • School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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  • Sarala Naicker

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Johannesburg Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Received 26 June 2008 ,Revised 18 June 2009 ,Accepted 26 June 2009.

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 Unconditional Grants to run the outreach program have been received from Servier Laboratories South Africa and Anglo American Fund. The Gauteng Health Department has supported the program with two full time primary health care nurses.

PII: S1751-9918(09)00066-7

doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2009.06.007

Primary Care Diabetes
Volume 3, Issue 3 , Pages 157-164 , August 2009