Background: In 1998, a major HIV intervention project was started in a mining community in
Carletonville, South Africa. This included community-based peer education, condom …

This paper examines trends in risk behaviour among South African gold miners, a
population with an estimated HIV prevalence of 10-20%. The study is based on a 1995 and …

Objectives: To measure the prevalence of HIV and other STIs in communities neighbouring
new large scale gold mines in northern Tanzania in order to inform the design of a targeted …

Mining communities with migrant populations are high-risk locations for human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/sexually transmitted infection transmission in Sub-Saharan …

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 40 mine workers on a Johannesburg gold
mine, focusing on workers' perceptions of health, HIV/AIDS and sexuality. The paper seeks …

Background/aim: A composite sample of 37 peer educators and 215 members of self help
groups of male informal sector workers in Thika, Kenya, targeting HIV/AIDS prevention, were …

Objective: To establish the importance of commercial sex in driving the HIV epidemic in the
general population by determining risk factors for HIV infection among male mine and farm …

Mineworkers are considered a population at risk for HIV due to risk behaviors associated
with migratory work patterns. This was the first study in Mozambique to determine the …

While migrant labour is believed to play an important role in the dynamics of HIV-
transmission in many of the countries of southern Africa, little has been written about the way …

Objective: To examine changes in sexual behaviour among men in urban Tanzania. Design:
An observational cohort study among factory workers during 1991–1994. Methods: Data …