The draft review examines the link between climate change and health with special reference to the Southern African region SADC countries It attempts to set the scene for determining pertinent research priorities in the region to contribute to knowledge on the one hand and for identification implementation and evaluation of adaptation interventions that are likely to be appropriate and effective in the region This review has been conducted by Strategic Evaluation Advisory and Development Consulting SEAD a health consultancy together with the COEHR and is part of the Regional Climate Change Programme RCPP led by One World Sustainable Investments

This is a high resolution infographic detailing the basics of Creative Commons licenses it explains the 4 main terms of these licenses and maps the licenses from the most accommodating to the most restrictive While this poster is licensed under a Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike license Non Commercial as it pertains to this infographic is meant to exclude instances of cost recovery and use by notforprofits

This resource can be used to illustrate the gastric lavage procedure Gastric lavage is the standard method of obtaining specimens for Tuberculosis TB diagnosis in young children. It is generally carried out only in infants and children below the age of two years In older children specimens for TB microscopy and culture are better obtained by sputum induction or voluntary coughing. There are two items included here Gastric lavage Presentation PPT presentation that illustrates and explains the procedure with text, Gastric lavage Animation sequence PPTAnimation which demonstrates how this procedure can be performed. Art work in this animation should be attributed to Stacey Stent. Conceptualisation and the description of the content in the teaching materials should be attributed to Rupesh Daya and Professor Maurice Kibel

A series of 7 pamphlets exploring different aspects of the Right to Health These pamphlets are available in three languages English Xhosa and Afrikaans

How to use RefWork referencing tool Contents include How to login to RefWorks Import references from databases Importing text files Manually entering a reference How to use RefGrab It Search Online databases in RefWorks eg UCT Libraries online catalogue ALEPH Finding your references in RefWorks, Organising your results How to create a bibliography How to use WritenCite, Importing from Google Scholar, Advanced searches and lookups, Viewing sorting and printing, Editing multiple references, Linking to online services Using RefWorks Offline Using My List, Using RefShare

The Science Faculty Marketing Committee has for the last 4 years designed and produced posters to stimulate an interest in and curiosity about Science among primary school learners The posters are designed and created by scientists from the 13 departments in the Faculty of Science and the production and printing of the posters is funded by a Grant from SAASTA South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement The aim of the bright interactive posters is to create a resource for teachers to use in their classrooms and to provides timulus material to inspire curious minds about Science in the learners. This year the topics of the posters are Metal Making the Past A Cultural and Scientific View of looking for raw materials changing ore into metal and making metal into objects. Evolution the process of evolution by natural selection and a view of commonly held misconceptions about evolution. The Secret Life of Viruses What are viruses How do they replicate How they invade living cells and hijack their building blocks and the cure for viruses. In addition to producing the posters this year we have converted some of the previous posters into A4 flyers to distribute at public places such as libraries municipalities etc in order to provide inputfor the general publicPrevious posters produced for National Science Week are as follows1 Our Place in the Universe by Tony Fairall2 History of Life on Earth by Anusuya ChinsamyTuran3 The Rocks of Table Mountain by John Compton4 The Chemistry of Colour by Susan Bourne5 Fascinating Nano World by Margit Harting6 When I speak on my cellphone where does my voice go by Gary Marsden7 Statistics of Growth and Life Expectancy by Tim Dunne8 Climate Change by Mike Lucas9 Plants Can Tell Time by Laura Roden10 Number Old and New by John Webb11 Journey from the Centre of the Earth by David Reid

Lectures slides from the 15 lecture Parallel And Multicore Computing module presented to the Computer Science Honours class 4th year. The image used above is CRAY 1 by Rama and is available under a Creative Commons Share Alike license

This resource includes three Matlab-based software programs that can be used during lectures and tutorial sessions as teaching aids Basic Protection Advanced Protection and Time Value of Money They form part of a first semester electrical engineering course Power distribution and transmission networks 4089F at UCT These programs are designed to visually demonstrate to the students the effects of input parameter choices and changes aiding in the conceptualisation of the concepts demonstrated encourage interaction between student and software thereby offering students the chance to apply their theory and grow in understanding, offer a way of measuring the depth of understanding of the student by evaluation higher interaction with the software in some way calculating a mark and emailing storing this mark for evaluation by the teaching assistant in the case of the Advanced Protection tutorial prepare students for post-tutorial practical labs involving live systems by allowing them to gain confidence in the application of the theory in a safe simulation environment. The image used above is HVDC Power Transformer by Worklife Siemens This image is licensed under a CCNCSA license

The South African Child Gauge is produced annually by the Children Institute University of Cape Town to monitor government and civil society progress towards realising the rights of children This issue focuses on child health. The South African Child Gauge is divided into three parts: PART ONE Children and law reform. Part one discusses recent legislative developments affecting child health In this issue there is commentary on the Children's Act the Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abuse Act provincial health legislation Tobacco Products Control Amendment Acts regulations to the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and new regulations to the Social Assistance Act. PART TWO: Healthy children From survival to optimal development. Part two presents a series of 12 essays Essays one and two set the scene by examining children's rights to health and the status of child health in South Africa Then come three essays that look at key health challenges and how to address them HIV and TB malnutrition mental health and risk behaviour These are followed by four essays that examine how to strengthen the health care system's response to childhood illness and injury This includes defining a package of basic health care services managing resources and building capacity providing child and family-friendly services and strengthening community based programmes The next essay shows how the roots of childhood illness and injury often lie outside the health care system and calls for concerted action to address the social determinants of health Two further essays point the way forward In the first the Minister of Health describes his vision for child health in South Africa The second draws on the findings presented in the earlier essays to outline recommendations for a system and a society that support child health PART THREE Children Count the numbers Part three updates a set of key indicators on children's socioeconomic rights and provides commentary on the extent to which these rights have been realised The indicators are a special subset selected from the website www.childrencount.ci.org.za

A short presentation which introduces screencasting recording the actions and movements performed on a computer screen. Screencasts can be used to demonstrate how to use a particular piece of software website or to demonstrate a concept using the computer screen much like a classroom blackboard The recorded videos can then be shared on the web so that anyone can access your lesson The presentation offers tips for starting with screencasts some examples of excellent screencasts available on the web suggests two software options for recording screen movements on Windows operating systems and offers some options for sharing the resulting video on the web