- International Law and Human Rights
- International Law and Aviation
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Human Rights and Development
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- EU Law and Policy Analysis
- Retinoids in leukemia and cellular processes
- HIV Research and Treatment
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
- International Environmental Law and Policies
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Law, logistics, and international trade
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
University of KwaZulu-Natal
1993-2023
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) from 0 to 6 mo of age is recommended by the World Health Organization as optimal feeding method for infants, including infants human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‐infected women developing countries who choose breastfeed. EBF may be associated with less risk postnatal HIV transmission than mixed feeding, but still uncommonly practised reasons that are poorly understood. This study aimed assess rates and impediments in a South African rural area high prevalence...
The application of treaties has become an ever more embedded feature the South African courts’ jurisprudence. In light that, this article offers a systematic descriptive assessment approach to interpretation over last halfdecade (2018–2023), so as make critical proposals for charting interpretative way forward. begins by considering how ought be interpreted, with particular regard customary international law’s rules interpretation, codified in Vienna Convention. then delineates pertinent...
From the viewpoint of international criminal law, serious human rights abuses perpetrated in Zimbabwe have implications for perpetrators. These are discussed, drawing on jurisprudence tribunals and text Rome Statute International Criminal Court. Two important international law doctrines are relevant to any attempt prosecute Zimbabwe's leaders: doctrine responsibility superior orders, controversial doctrine immunity. Possible avenues prosecution Zimbabweans implicated crimes include...
This article is reprinted from The Lancet, with permission Elsevier: Coutsodis A, Goga Desmond C, Barron P, Black V, Coovadia H. Is Option B+ the best choice? Lancet 2013;381(9863):269-271. [http://dx/doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61807-8] success of prevention mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes (Options A and B) in middle-income countries, together clinical trial data on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as prophylaxis, has emboldened UN agencies to aggressively promote lifelong...
Customary international law is in South Africa as much property law, company or contract law. It may not be frequently relevant applicable many parts of domestic Courts and legal practitioners familiar with its contours, nuances methods identification. But it precisely for these reasons that matters more, less, how courts, the parties they represent approach it. This article describes analyses African courts’ engagement customary particularly over last decade. The analysis reveals important...