Psychosocial interventions for improving engagement in care and health and behavioural outcomes for adolescents and young people living with HIV: a systematic …

CA Laurenzi, S du Toit, W Ameyan… - African Journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Introduction: Adolescents and young people comprise a growing proportion of new HIV
infections globally, yet current approaches do not effectively engage this group, and …

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 …

Barriers and facilitators to HIV prevention interventions for reducing risky sexual behavior among youth worldwide: a systematic review

F Mbengo, E Adama, A Towell-Barnard, A Bhana… - BMC infectious …, 2022 - Springer
Background Interventions aimed at reducing risky sexual behavior are considered an
important strategy for averting Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection among youth …

Protective factors for adolescent sexual risk behaviours and experiences linked to HIV infection in South Africa: a three-wave longitudinal analysis of caregiving …

WE Rudgard, MG Saminathen, M Orkin… - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Background Structural interventions are endorsed to enhance biomedical and behavioural
HIV prevention programmes for adolescents. Aiming to inform future interventions, we …

What the HIV pandemic experience can teach the United States about the COVID-19 response

SA Strathdee, NK Martin, EV Pitpitan… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
The COVID-19 epidemic that first began in China in early 2020 has quickly become a
pandemic that is having a tremendous impact on the physical and mental health of …

Factors associated with age-disparate sexual partnerships among males and females in South Africa: a multinomial analysis of the 2012 national population-based …

M Mabaso, L Mlangeni, L Makola, O Oladimeji… - Emerging themes in …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background In South Africa, age-disparate to sexual relationships where the age
difference between partners is 5 years or greater is an important contributor to the spread of …

'I trap her with a CD, then tomorrow find her with a big old man who bought her a smart phone'. Constructions of masculinities and transactional sex: a qualitative study …

L Howard-Merrill, J Wamoyi, D Nyato… - Culture, Health & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Men's role in transactional sex is relatively unexplored, limiting initiatives to prevent
exploitative transactional sex and its negative health implications for girls and women. We …

A mixed-methods, exploratory, quasi-experimental evaluation of a radio drama intervention to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania

M Pichon, DJ Carter, L Howard-Merrill… - … in Reproductive Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Age-disparate transactional sex (ADTS) is associated with HIV, unintended
pregnancy, school dropout and violence, yet few interventions have successfully prevented …

Shifting social norms to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania: what we can learn from intervention development research

L Howard-Merrill, C Zimmerman, R Sono… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This paper reflects on the development process (2015–2020) of the Learning Initiative for
Norms, Exploitation, and Abuse (LINEA) Intervention. The LINEA Intervention is a multi …

Long-term mediation of a sexual risk-reduction intervention for South African adolescents.

S Kim, LS Jemmott, L Icard, AM Teitelman… - Health …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objetivo: Los adolescentes en Sudáfrica se ven afectados de manera desproporcionada por
el VIH. Un experimento controlado aleatorizado por grupos que examinó los efectos de una …