Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in sub-Saharan Africa: who is left behind?

DY Melesse, MK Mutua, A Choudhury, YD Wado… - BMJ global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) continues to be a major public health
challenge in sub-Saharan Africa where child marriage, adolescent childbearing, HIV …

Declining HIV incidence in sub‐Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta‐analysis of empiric data

K Joshi, J Lessler, O Olawore… - African Journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Introduction: UNAIDS models suggest HIV incidence is declining in sub-Saharan Africa. The
objective of this study was to assess whether modelled trends are supported by empirical …

The HIV epidemic in South Africa: key findings from 2017 national population-based survey

K Zuma, L Simbayi, N Zungu, S Moyo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV worldwide. South Africa has
implemented five population-based HIV prevalence surveys since 2002 aimed at …

Declines in HIV incidence among men and women in a South African population-based cohort

A Vandormael, A Akullian, M Siedner… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Over the past decade, there has been a massive scale-up of primary and secondary
prevention services to reduce the population-wide incidence of HIV. However, the impact of …

Age patterns of HIV incidence in eastern and southern Africa: a modelling analysis of observational population-based cohort studies

KA Risher, A Cori, G Reniers, M Marston, C Calvert… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background As the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa matures, evidence about the age
distribution of new HIV infections and how this distribution has changed over the epidemic is …

HIV incidence rates in adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa

SSA Karim, C Baxter - The Lancet Global Health, 2019 - thelancet.com
The global acceleration of the AIDS response over the past decade, particularly increased
access to antiretrovirals for HIV treatment, has resulted in declining HIV incidence in many …

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] Evaluating the impact of DREAMS on HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women: a population-based cohort study in Kenya and South Africa

I Birdthistle, D Kwaro, M Shahmanesh, K Baisley… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Through a multisectoral approach, the DREAMS Partnership aimed to reduce
HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) by 40% over 2 years in …

Vaccine plus microbicide effective in preventing vaginal SIV transmission in macaques

MA Rahman, M Bissa, I Silva de Castro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The human immunodeficiency virus epidemic continues in sub-Saharan Africa, and
particularly affects adolescent girls and women who have limited access to antiretroviral …

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) …