HIV testing and linkage to services for youth

AE Kurth, MA Lally, AT Choko, IW Inwani… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction HIV testing is the portal to serostatus knowledge that can empower linkage to
care for HIV treatment and HIV prevention. However, young people's access to HIV testing is …

HIV and adolescents: focus on young key populations

LG Bekker, S Hosek - African Journal of Reproduction and …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Acknowledgements CIPHER would like to give special thanks to Manoj Kurian and IAS
President Chris Beyrer, as well as Charlie Baran and Alice Armstrong for their input on the …

Community beliefs, HIV stigma, and depression among adolescents living with HIV in rural Uganda

S Ashaba, CE Cooper-Vince… - African journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The availability of and increased access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly
reduced the morbidity and mortality associated with HIV. As a result, perinatally infected …

How social enterprises nurture empowerment: a grounded theoretical model of social change

B Pareja-Cano, C Valor, A Benito - Journal of Social …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Our understanding of how social enterprises enable social change is still limited.
Empowerment could be a valid mediating construct to explain the processes occurring …

Scaling a waterfall: a meta‐ethnography of adolescent progression through the stages of HIV care in sub‐Saharan Africa

S Williams, J Renju, L Ghilardi… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction: Observational studies have shown considerable attrition among adolescents
living with HIV across the “cascade” of HIV care in sub‐Saharan Africa, leading to higher …

What do South African adolescents want in a sexual health service? Evidence from the South African Studies on HIV in Adolescents (SASHA) project

P Smith, R Marcus, T Bennie, B Nkala… - South African Medical …, 2018 - ajol.info
Background. Young people in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are disproportionately affected by
HIV, sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancies. The provision of accessible …

Young key populations and HIV: a special emphasis and consideration in the new WHO Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care …

R Baggaley, A Armstrong, Z Dodd… - African Journal of …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
WHO released its new Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment
and Care for Key Populations [1] at the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne in July …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring determinants of HIV/AIDS self-testing uptake in South Africa using generalised linear poisson and geographically weighted poisson regression

E Fundisi, S Dlamini, T Mokhele, G Weir-Smith… - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
Increased HIV/AIDS testing is of paramount importance in controlling the HIV/AIDS
pandemic and subsequently saving lives. Despite progress in HIV/AIDS testing …

Factors that motivated otherwise healthy HIV-positive young adults to access HIV testing and treatment in South Africa

RF Lambert, C Orrell, DR Bangsberg, JE Haberer - AIDS and Behavior, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The World Health Organization recommends early initiation of HIV antiretroviral
therapy (ART) for all those infected with the virus at any CD4 count. Successfully reaching …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring perceptions of low risk behaviour and drivers to test for HIV among South African youth

T Muravha, CJ Hoffmann, C Botha, W Maruma… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence among South African youth is high, yet
HIV testing remains suboptimal. We explored how perceptions of HIV risk and behaviours …