Effectiveness of an adapted evidence-based woman-focused intervention for sex workers and non-sex workers: the Women's Health CoOp in South Africa

WM Wechsberg, WA Zule, WK Luseno… - Journal of Drug …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
South Africa's concurrent epidemics of HIV, substance use, and gender-based violence
point to the urgent need for interventions that address the intersectional nature of these …

Barriers and facilitators to implementing an evidence-based woman-focused intervention in South African health services

BN Howard, R Van Dorn, BJ Myers, WA Zule… - BMC Health Services …, 2017 - Springer
Background Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, numerous behavior change, risk-
reduction, and biomedical interventions have been developed and tested. While some of …

Alcohol, cannabis, and methamphetamine use and other risk behaviours among Black and Coloured South African women: a small randomized trial in the Western …

WM Wechsberg, WK Luseno, RS Karg, S Young… - International Journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: There is a pressing need for brief behavioural interventions to address the
intersection of high HIV prevalence, increasing substance use, and high-risk sex practices …

Substance use, sexual risk, and violence: HIV prevention intervention with sex workers in Pretoria

WM Wechsberg, WK Luseno, WKK Lam, CDH Parry… - AIDS and Behavior, 2006 - Springer
This paper describes an HIV prevention intervention designed in the US that was adapted
and implemented in South Africa. Using an experimental design, 93 women who reported …

A brief intervention for drug use, sexual risk behaviours and violence prevention with vulnerable women in South Africa: a randomised trial of the Women's Health …

WM Wechsberg, R Jewkes, SP Novak, T Kline… - BMJ open, 2013 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To assess the impact of the Women's Health CoOp (WHC) on drug abstinence
among vulnerable women having HIV counselling and testing (HCT). Design Randomised …

The relevance of social contexts and social action in reducing substance use and victimization among women participating in an HIV prevention intervention in Cape …

E Reed, AN Emanuel, B Myers, K Johnson… - Substance abuse and …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives To examine qualitatively how women's social context and community
mobilization (eg, mobilizing women to take social action and engaging their community in …

Implementation science outcomes of a gender-focused HIV and alcohol risk-reduction intervention in usual-care settings in South Africa

MW Gichane, WM Wechsberg, J Ndirangu… - Drug and alcohol …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Background South Africa has the highest HIV prevalence globally, which
disproportionately affects women. Hazardous alcohol use reduces antiretroviral adherence …

An implementation science protocol of the Women's Health CoOp in healthcare settings in Cape Town, South Africa: A stepped-wedge design

WM Wechsberg, JW Ndirangu, IS Speizer, WA Zule… - BMC Women's …, 2017 - Springer
Background HIV persists as a public health emergency in South Africa, especially among
women of childbearing age. In response to the HIV epidemic, the Joint United Nations …

Gaining traction: Promising shifts in gender norms and intimate partner violence in the context of a community-based HIV prevention trial in South Africa

A Gottert, J Pulerwitz, N Haberland, R Mathebula… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background HIV and violence prevention programs increasingly seek to transform gender
norms among participants, yet how to do so at the community level, and subsequent …

Outcomes of implementing in the real world the Women's Health CoOp Intervention in Cape Town, South Africa

WM Wechsberg, FA Browne, J Ndirangu, CP Bonner… - AIDS and Behavior, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Women in South Africa living with HIV who use alcohol may not adhere to ART,
affecting the country's 90-90-90 targets. The Women's Health CoOp (WHC), a woman …