Quality of integrated chronic disease care in rural South Africa : user and provider perspectives

Acknowledgement This work was supported by (i) Medical Research Council/Wits Rural Public Health and health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt) South Africa, through the Wellcome Trust, UK (Grant Numbers 058893/Z/99/A, 069683/Z/02/Z); (ii) Fogarty International Centre of the National Institutes of Health fellowship (Grant number 1D43TW008330-01A); and (iii) African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official view of the National Institutes of Health and other funders. This paper was facilitated by attending the Wits School of Public Health Thanda Ukubhala writing retreat funded by the Faculty of Health Sciences Research Office. The authors acknowledge the contributions of Chimaraoke Izugbara, Rachel Caesar, Lenore Manderson, Faith Mambulu and Latonya Wilson for writing support. Funding Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by the Fogarty International Centre of the National Institutes of Health fellowship (Grant number 1D43TW008330-01A). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected] reviewedPublisher PD