The degree to which women are able to control various aspects of their sexual lives is
clearly a critical question for health promotion and the prevention of AIDS. It is evident that …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate trends in adult mortality in a population serviced by a public-
sector antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme in rural South Africa using a demographic …

Globally, large proportions of HIV-positive populations live in cities. The Fast-Track cities
project aims to advance progress toward elimination of HIV as a public health threat by …

Objective: To quantify the contribution that AIDS makes to adult mortality in rural South
Africa. Design: Demographic surveillance of the population in a rural area of northern …

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are of major public health concern in developing
countries, not least because they facilitate transmission of human immunodeficiency virus …

Using longitudinal data from three demographic surveillance systems (DSS) and a
retrospective cohort study, we estimate levels and trends in the prevalence and incidence of …

objective To develop indices to quantitatively assess and understand the spatial usage
patterns of health facilities in the Hlabisa district of South Africa. methodology We mapped …

Correspondence: Professor S Karim, University of Natal, King George V Avenue, Durban
4041, South Africa. E-mail: karims1@ nu. ac. za system. Zena and Mervyn were among the …

Abstract Background KwaZulu-Natal is the South African province worst affected by HIV and
the focus of early modeling studies investigating strategies of antiretroviral treatment (ART) …

Summary objective To describe heterogeneity of HIV prevalence among pregnant women in
Hlabisa health district, South Africa and to correlate this with proximity of homestead to …