Impact of family networks on uptake of health interventions: evidence from a community‐randomized control trial aimed at increasing HIV testing in South Africa

K Makofane, HY Kim… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction While it is widely acknowledged that family relationships can influence health
outcomes, their impact on the uptake of individual health interventions is unclear. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of non-monetary incentives on uptake of couples' counselling and testing among clients attending mobile HIV services in rural Zimbabwe: a cluster …

EL Sibanda, M Tumushime, J Mufuka… - The Lancet Global …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Couples' HIV testing and counselling (CHTC) is associated with greater
engagement with HIV prevention and care than individual testing and is cost-effective, but …

The impact of a conditional financial incentive on linkage to HIV care: Findings from the HITS cluster randomized clinical trial in rural South Africa

HY Kim, M Inghels, T Mathenjwa, M Shahmanesh… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Introduction: HIV elimination requires innovative approaches to ensure testing and
immediate treatment provision. We investigated the effectiveness of conditional financial …

Home‐Based Intervention to Test and Start (HITS): a community‐randomized controlled trial to increase HIV testing uptake among men in rural South Africa

FC Tanser, HY Kim, T Mathenjwa… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction The uptake of HIV testing and linkage to care remains low among men,
contributing to high HIV incidence in women in South Africa. We conducted the “Home …

Taking HIV testing to families: designing a family-based intervention to facilitate HIV testing, disclosure, and intergenerational communication

H Van Rooyen, Z Essack, T Rochat, D Wight… - Frontiers in public …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Facility-based HIV testing does not capture many adults and children who are at
risk of HIV in South Africa. This underscores the need to provide targeted, age-appropriate …

Protocol: evaluation of an optimised couples-focused intervention to increase testing for HIV in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the Igugu Lethu ('Our treasure') …

N McGrath, N Ngcobo, Z Feng, P Joseph, P Dladla… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Between 2012 and 2015, the Uthando Lwethu (UL) study
demonstrated that a theory-based behavioural couples-focused intervention significantly …

Effect of home based HIV counselling and testing intervention in rural South Africa: cluster randomised trial

T Doherty, H Tabana, D Jackson, R Naik, W Zembe… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objective To assess the effect of home based HIV counselling and testing on the prevalence
of HIV testing and reported behavioural changes in a rural subdistrict of South Africa. Design …

A community mobilisation intervention to improve engagement in HIV testing, linkage to care, and retention in care in South Africa: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

SA Lippman, A Pettifor, MSK Dufour, CW Kabudula… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Community mobilisation, engaging communities in a process to collectively
enact change, could improve HIV testing and care engagement. In South Africa, current …

Preliminary results from a family-based HIV prevention intervention for South African youth.

L Armistead, S Cook, D Skinner, Y Toefy… - Health …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Objectives: Approximately 5.6 million South Africans are living with human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV; UNAIDS, 2010). Prevalence among Black adolescents and …

Can a conditional financial incentive (CFI) reduce socio-demographic inequalities in home-based HIV testing uptake? A secondary analysis of the HITS clinical trial …

M Inghels, HY Kim, T Mathenjwa… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In sub-Saharan Africa, home-based HIV testing interventions are designed to reach
sub-populations with low access to HIV testing such as men, younger or less educated …