Browsing Masters Degrees (Medical Law) by Subject "Theses--Law."
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Access to affordable life-saving medicines : the South African response.
(2012)Patent protection grants the patent holder with a market monopoly, free from market competition allowing the patentee to charge any price; therefore medicines are sold at prices much higher than the marginal cost of ... -
The application, efficacy and relevance of existing public health legislation.
(2003)No abstract available. -
The clinical and human rights challenges pertaining to HIV/AIDS and TB co-infection in South Africa.
(2014)Prior to 1990, HIV/AIDS and TB co infection was not a major public health threat in South Africa (SA). The serious ignorance and negligence on the part of then SA government with regard to HIV/AIDS led to the increase of ... -
DNA profiling as a means of establishing paternity in South African law.
(1994)The pathetic cry 'Who is my father?' has been asked time and again the world over. Discovery of paternity, linked as it is with the processes - legal and scientific - of establishing the alleged father's relationship on a ... -
Evaluating HIV/AIDS life skills programme : the case of Umbumbulu schools in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2005)No abstract available. -
An examination of the availability and accessibility of health care services in the rural area of Shongweni.
(2004)The study examines the availability and accessibility of health care services in rural areas in relation to the right to health. The area that has been selected for the purpose of this study is the Shongweni area in the ... -
Gender reassignment surgery : medical issues and legal consequences.
(2000)Gender reassignment procedures are performed for the treatment of the gender dysphoria syndrome (transsexualism). Although this modality of treatment is therapeutic in nature and therefore not contra bonos mores, the legal ... -
Gendered sexual vulnerabilities in the spread of HIV/AIDS : Clayfield (Phoenix) as case study.
(2007)This dissertation focuses on how important factors such as gender inequalities and gender vulnerabilities contribute to fuelling the spread of HIV/AIDS. The study focuses on a community in Phoenix, called Clayfield. The ... -
The health needs of sex workers in the context of HIV/AIDS susceptibility : a legal perspective.
(2012)No abstract available. -
Human cloning : separating science from fiction : the ethics and legality of human cloning.
(2002)No abstract available. -
The implementation of HIV/AIDS policies in primary schools in the Umgeni North ward.
(2008)The 2003 UNESCO report indicated that the HIV/AIDS pandemic contributes to rapid breakdowns of existing structures that traditionally took care of the development of young children. There must be strategies to provide ... -
Justice and equity in the allocation of health resources for mental health in the eThekwini health district.
(2006)Aim The aim of the study was to establish if resources for health care were distributed in a manner which reflected justice and equity for people with mental illness at primary health care (PHC) level where mental health ... -
The legal and ethical implications of involuntary detention of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients in South Africa
With South Africa battling a TB/HIV epidemic that is one of the highest in the world, drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) has been an issue of concern lately, due to its virulence and potential fatality. DR-TB is usually ... -
The medico-legal and ethical issues surrounding the creation of a human embryo.
(2001)No abstract available. -
The nature and scope of the problem of identifying unidentified bodies at medico-legal mortuaries in South Africa : a medico-legal perspective.
(2007)In South Africa, the high rate of violent deaths, the lack of proper identification documents, and internal migration within the country stemming from the previous socio-political dispensation of society, has led to a ... -
The world trade organization's trade agreements : a legal analysis of their impact on access to antiretroviral drugs and the human right to health/life in Zambia.
(2012)This dissertation has been motivated by the prolonged deficiency of access to advanced regimens of Antiretroviral drugs(ARVs) and efficient health services by people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Zambia, a least developed ...