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campus) with the supervision of Anne Stanton. I declare that this work is the result of my own research, unless specifically indicated to the contrary in the text. This dissertation has not been submitted in any form for any degree to any other university. Signed: Hlengiwe Gumede Date: 30 November 2007 I hereby certify that this statement is correct. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my appreciation to my supervisor, Anne Stanton, for her patience, tolerance, and valuable assistance with this thesis. If it were not for her, all this would not be possible. I would also like to thank the Public Policy Partnership in South Africa for their financial support to further my studies at postgraduate level. I would also like to thank the staff from Health Systems Trust and the Department of Health for participating in the study