HIV prevention interventions for adolescents

S Hosek, A Pettifor - Current HIV/AIDS Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The goal of this paper is to review recent data on biomedical,
behavioral, and structural HIV prevention interventions for adolescents and young adults …

HIV decline in Zimbabwe due to reductions in risky sex? Evidence from a comprehensive epidemiological review

S Gregson, E Gonese, TB Hallett… - International journal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background Recent data from antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance and general population
surveys suggest substantial declines in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence in …

[HTML][HTML] Age-disparate relationships and HIV incidence in adolescent girls and young women: evidence from Zimbabwe

R Schaefer, S Gregson, JW Eaton, O Mugurungi… - Aids, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Age-disparate sexual relationships with older men may drive high rates of HIV
acquisition in young women in sub-Saharan Africa, but evidence is limited. We investigate …

Preventing HIV among adolescents with oral PrEP: observations and challenges in the United States and South Africa

S Hosek, C Celum, CM Wilson… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Adolescents and young adults aged< 25 are a key population in the HIV
epidemic, with very high HIV incidence rates in many geographic settings and a large …

Rethinking HIV prevention to prepare for oral PrEP implementation for young African women

CL Celum, S Delany‐Moretlwe… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction HIV incidence remains high among young women in sub‐Saharan Africa in
spite of scale‐up of HIV testing, behavioural interventions, antiretroviral treatment and …

Transformation of HIV from pandemic to low-endemic levels: a public health approach to combination prevention

A Jones, I Cremin, F Abdullah, J Idoko, P Cherutich… - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Large declines in HIV incidence have been reported since 2001, and scientific advances in
HIV prevention provide strong hope to reduce incidence further. Now is the time to replace …

[HTML][HTML] A decline in new HIV infections in South Africa: estimating HIV incidence from three national HIV surveys in 2002, 2005 and 2008

TM Rehle, TB Hallett, O Shisana, V Pillay-van Wyk… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Three national HIV household surveys were conducted in South Africa, in 2002,
2005 and 2008. A novelty of the 2008 survey was the addition of serological testing to …

Do age-disparate relationships drive HIV incidence in young women? Evidence from a population cohort in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

G Harling, ML Newell, F Tanser, I Kawachi… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Background: Based on ethnographic investigations and mathematical models, older sexual
partners are often considered a major risk factor for HIV for young women in sub-Saharan …

Epidemiology of HIV infection in the Middle East and North Africa

LJ Abu-Raddad, N Hilmi, G Mumtaz, M Benkirane… - AidS, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to be perceived as a
region with very limited HIV epidemiological data, raising many controversies about the …

[HTML][HTML] Sexual partnership age pairings and risk of HIV acquisition in rural South Africa

A Akullian, A Bershteyn, D Klein, A Vandormael… - Aids, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To quantify the contribution of specific sexual partner age groups to the risk of HIV
acquisition in men and women in a hyperendemic region of South Africa. Design: We …