The global response and unmet actions for HIV and sex workers

K Shannon, AL Crago, SD Baral, LG Bekker… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Female, male, and transgender sex workers continue to have disproportionately high
burdens of HIV infection in low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries in 2018 …

[HTML][HTML] Adolescent lives matter: preventing HIV in adolescents

A Pettifor, M Stoner, C Pike… - Current Opinion in HIV …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
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[HTML][HTML] Trends and correlates of HIV prevalence among adolescents in South Africa: evidence from the 2008, 2012 and 2017 South African National HIV Prevalence …

M Mabaso, G Maseko, R Sewpaul, I Naidoo… - AIDS research and …, 2021 - Springer
Background Adolescents are at increased risk of HIV infection compared to other age
groups. There is an urgent need for strategic information that will inform programmes to …

[HTML][HTML] The State of the HIV Epidemic in the Philippines: Progress and Challenges in 2023

LMA Gangcuangco, PC Eustaquio - Tropical Medicine and Infectious …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the past decade, the Philippines has gained notoriety as the country with the fastest-
growing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic in the Western Pacific region. While …

[HTML][HTML] Transactional sex and incident HIV infection in a cohort of young women from rural South Africa

K Kilburn, M Ranganathan, MCD Stoner, JP Hughes… - Aids, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objective: In sub-Saharan Africa, young women who engage in transactional sex (the
exchange of sex for money or gifts) with a male partner show an elevated risk of prevalent …

Why interventions to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV have failed young women in southern Africa

J Mannell, S Willan, M Shahmanesh… - African Journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Introduction: Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 years have some of the
highest HIV incidence rates globally, with girls two to four times more likely to be living with …

[HTML][HTML] Is transactional sex exploitative? A social norms perspective, with implications for interventions with adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania

J Wamoyi, L Heise, R Meiksin, N Kyegombe, D Nyato… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Although transactional sex is common in many sexual relationships, there has been little
research into the degree to which the practice is considered exploitative in the settings in …

[HTML][HTML] Adolescent condom use in Southern Africa: narrative systematic review and conceptual model of multilevel barriers and facilitators

Á Aventin, S Gordon, C Laurenzi, S Rabie… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Adolescent HIV and pregnancy rates in Southern Africa are amongst the
highest in the world. Despite decades of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) …

[HTML][HTML] HIV and adolescent girls and young women in sub‐Saharan Africa: A call for expedited action to reduce new infections

G Murewanhema, G Musuka, P Moyo, E Moyo… - IJID regions, 2022 - Elsevier
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), aged 15-24,
remain at substantial risk of acquiring HIV. AGYW accounted for 63% of all new HIV …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the measurement of transactional sex in Sub-Saharan Africa: a critical review

J Wamoyi, M Ranganathan, N Kyegombe… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: Transactional sex, or informal sexual exchange, is considered to be an
important contributing factor to the disproportionately high HIV infection rates experienced …