Focus and Scope
The Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection (SAJEI) first appeared in 1985 as a joint publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of Southern Africa (IDSSA), the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Society of Southern Africa (STDSSA) and the Epidemiology Society of Southern Africa, the latter having subsequently been succeeded by the Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA). Presently SAJEI is published under the auspices of the Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa which is an umbrella organization incorporating IDSSA,STDSSA as well as the Infection Control Society of South Africa (ICASA), the South African Society of Clinical Microbiology (SASCM), and the South African Society of Travel Medicine (SASTM), together with PHASA,.
Publications of SAJEI centre round aspects of epidemiology and infection, particularly those of importance to the societies of FIDSSA and PHASHA. The epidemiology of infection is an important priority but epidemiological insights into areas outside infectious diseases also fall within the scope of the journal. These include diverse issues of public health importance covering such areas as nutrition, trauma and related alcohol abuse and crime, reproductive health, occupational health, environmental health, cancers and drug dependence. Topics around infection include clinical and epidemiological aspects of communicable diseases, laboratory diagnosis of infections, characterization of infective agents by molecular techniques and the study of transmission patterns of pathogens in institutional and community settings. Other infection related studies cover surveillance of vaccine-controllable and other infectious diseases, drug susceptibility patterns of hospital-acquired and community-acquired pathogens and infection control strategies for the southern Africa region. SAJEI also promotes greater collaboration between clinically oriented and laboratory-based divisions within the FIDSSA societies, and PHASHA and the establishment of quality assurance programmes and other measures to enhance and maintain standards of diagnostic and public health microbiology.
Scientific papers in the SAJEI aim to advance the understanding of all aspects of epidemiology, public health, clinical microbiology and infection. The journal strives to promote research and exchange of information on specific areas of infectious diseases, medical microbiology and virology, covering fields of interest of the societies of FIDSSA and PHASHA. Manuscripts describing research performed at southern African institutions and in southern African settings enjoy a high priority, as do health matters covering Africa and the developing world, as well as global issues such as malaria and other tropical diseases, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS. The scope of interest of SAJEI is wide but the journal aims to maintain and improve the standard of its publications.
Section Policies
Editorials
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Editorial Note
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Reviews
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Original Research
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Travel Medicine Forum
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Clinical Case Studies
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Opinion Papers
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FIDSSA President's Column
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Abstracts
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National Guidelines at a glance
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SASTM Congress Abstracts
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Festschrift
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Peer Review Process
Review procedure. The Editor-in-Chief and Emeritus Editor screen all unsolicited manuscript submissions and some of these are rejected without further review. All other manuscripts are sent to a minimum of two outside experts for review. After receipt of the reviewers’ reports, the Editor-in-Chief and the Emeritus Editor with administrative assistance of the Journal Secretary discuss the merits of the manuscripts and the Editor-in-Chief makes the final decision to accept, reject, or request revision of the manuscript. A request for revision does not guarantee ultimate acceptance of the revised manuscript
Related manuscripts. If there appears to be significant overlap between a manuscript submitted to SAJEI and another submitted manuscript by the same authors to SAJEI or another journal, the editors will take the matter up with the corresponding author, and based on the response, take appropriate action (ask for modification, or reject with detailed explanation). Further action may include informing the appropriate authority in the authors’ resident institution and if overlapping is discovered after publication in SAJEI, publishing an appropriate announcement to that effect in the journal.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
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