Adolescent retention in HIV care within differentiated service-delivery models in sub-Saharan Africa

M Maskew, K Technau, MA Davies, R Vreeman… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Adolescents and young people living with HIV are at risk of disengaging from HIV care at all
stages of the care cascade. Differentiated models of care offer simplified HIV-service …

Facilitators and barriers to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake through a community-based intervention strategy among adolescent girls and young women in …

M Jackson-Gibson, AU Ezema, W Orero, I Were… - BMC public health, 2021 - Springer
Background While the introduction of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) as an HIV
prevention strategy has allowed women to exercise more control over the reduction of HIV …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Designing HIV prevention interventions that are acceptable to young adults in sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a mapping review and inductive thematic …

OD Somefun, MJI Nweje, M Casale, GH Ronnie… - Children and Youth …, 2024 - Elsevier
Rationale Understanding what young adults and other key stakeholders find acceptable for
HIV prevention interventions and reasons explaining acceptability or lack thereof is crucial …

Effect of peer-distributed HIV self-test kits on demand for biomedical HIV prevention in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a three-armed cluster-randomised trial …

M Shahmanesh, TN Mthiyane, C Herbsst… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Study objective We investigated two peer distribution models of HIV self-testing (HIVST) in
HIV prevention demand creation compared with trained young community members (peer …

Thetha Nami: participatory development of a peer-navigator intervention to deliver biosocial HIV prevention for adolescents and youth in rural South Africa

M Shahmanesh, N Okesola, N Chimbindi, T Zuma… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Despite effective biomedical tools, HIV remains the largest cause of
morbidity/mortality in South Africa–especially among adolescents and young people. We …

DREAMS impact on HIV status knowledge and sexual risk among cohorts of young women in Kenya and South Africa

S Floyd, S Mulwa, F Magut, A Gourlay, N Mthiyane… - AIDS, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: We sought evidence of DREAMS'impact on uptake of services and sexual risk
among adolescent-girls-and-young-women (AGYW). Design: Cohorts of AGYW aged 13–22 …

The impact of financial incentives on HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women in Eswatini: Sitakhela Likusasa, a cluster randomised trial

M Gorgens, S Ketende, AF Longosz, M Mabuza… - BMJ Global …, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Incentives conditional on school attendance or on remaining free of sexually
transmitted infections have produced mixed results in reducing HIV incidence. Methods HIV …

Young people's experiences of sexual and reproductive health interventions in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

T Zuma, J Seeley, S Mdluli, N Chimbindi… - … of Adolescence and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite efforts to address HIV-infection, adolescents and young peoples'(AYP) engagement
in interventions remain suboptimal. Guided by a risk protection framework we describe …

Women's perceptions of HIV-and sexuality-related stigma in relation to PrEP: qualitative findings from the Masibambane Study, Durban, South Africa

S Bergam, AD Harrison, N Benghu, S Khumalo… - AIDS and Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) offers effective HIV prevention. In South Africa,
PrEP is publicly available, but use among young women remains low. We explored young …