Needle and syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy for preventing HCV transmission among people who inject drugs: findings from a Cochrane Review …

L Platt, S Minozzi, J Reed, P Vickerman, H Hagan… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To estimate the effects of needle and syringe programmes (NSP) and opioid
substitution therapy (OST), alone or in combination, for preventing acquisition of hepatitis C …

Is poverty or wealth driving HIV transmission?

S Gillespie, S Kadiyala, R Greener - Aids, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Evidence of associations between socioeconomic status and the spread of HIV in different
settings and at various stages of the epidemic is still rudimentary. Few existing studies are …

Weighing the gold in the gold standard: challenges in HIV prevention research

NS Padian, SI McCoy, JE Balkus, JN Wasserheit - Aids, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Objective (s): Few HIV prevention interventions have been evaluated in randomized
controlled trials (RCTs). We examined design, implementation, and contextual …

Elimination of HIV in South Africa through expanded access to antiretroviral therapy: a model comparison study

JAC Hontelez, MN Lurie, T Bärnighausen… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Expanded access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) using universal test and treat
(UTT) has been suggested as a strategy to eliminate HIV in South Africa within 7 y based on …

Preventing HIV among young people: research priorities for the future

A Pettifor, LG Bekker, S Hosek… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To review the current state of knowledge on the prevention of sexual transmission
of HIV in adolescents and to highlight the existing gaps and priority areas for future research …

Feasibility, acceptability and cost of home‐based HIV testing in rural Kenya

J Negin, J Wariero, P Mutuo, S Jan… - Tropical medicine & …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To demonstrate the feasibility, acceptability and cost of home‐based HIV testing
and to examine the applicability of the model to high HIV prevalence settings. Methods …

Gender norms, gender role conflict/stress and HIV risk behaviors among men in Mpumalanga, South Africa

A Gottert, C Barrington, HL McNaughton-Reyes… - AIDS and Behavior, 2018 - Springer
Men's gender role conflict and stress (GRC/S), the psychological strain they experience
around fulfilling expectations of themselves as men, has been largely unexplored in HIV …

HIV prevalence and risk in long-distance truck drivers in South Africa: a national cross-sectional survey

S Delany-Moretlwe, B Bello, P Kinross… - … journal of STD & …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
We estimated the prevalence of HIV and assessed correlates of HIV infection in long-
distance truck drivers in South Africa. Between October 2003 and July 2004, 1900 long …

The relationship between age of coital debut and HIV seroprevalence among women in Durban, South Africa: a cohort study

H Wand, G Ramjee - BMJ open, 2012 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To investigate the impact of early sexual debut on HIV seroprevalence and
incidence rates among a cohort of women. Design Prospective study. Setting KwaZulu …

Effects of migration on risky sexual behavior and HIV acquisition in South Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2000–2017

A Dzomba, A Tomita, K Govender, F Tanser - AIDS and Behavior, 2019 - Springer
While human mobility has been implicated in fueling the HIV epidemic in South Africa, the
link between migration and HIV has not been systematically reviewed and quantified. We …