Alan J. Flisher

TL;DR: Indicators point to the widespread misuse of alcohol in South Africa, with a number of implications for public health policy, such as the need to develop protocols for the management of alcohol-positive patients in trauma units and to target prevention programs at heavy drinking by young people.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical examination of published evaluations of school-based AIDS prevention programs in sub-Saharan Africa is presented, showing that there is a paucity of such studies that evaluate schoolbased programs and variations in the content, duration and intensity of the interventions, together with differences in the design of evaluations and of evaluation instruments, makes it difficult to conduct comparisons.

TL;DR: In all three sites, a substantial proportion of adolescents reported not communicating with their parents about HIV/AIDS, abstinence, or condoms, which implies that silence is common across sociodemographic subgroups.

TL;DR: A systematic review of literature was conducted to synthesise current knowledge within the field of leisure boredom and risk behaviour among adolescents, focusing attention on leisure boredom as a factor contributing to risk behaviour in adolescents.

TL;DR: A set of service norms for the care of people with severe psychiatric conditions (SPC) in South Africa are developed to assist the implementation of the new policy of downscaling of psychiatric institutions and the development of community-based services.