Background In high HIV burden settings, maximising the coverage of prevention strategies is
crucial to achieving epidemic control. However, little is known about the reach and effect of …

Introduction: Community mobilization (CM) is increasingly recognized as critical to
generating changes in social norms and behaviours needed to achieve reductions in HIV …

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 …

Introduction Evidence has shown that the experience of violence by a partner has important
influences on women's risk of HIV acquisition. Using a randomized experiment in northeast …

There is limited information about sexual behavior among older Africans, which is
problematic given high HIV rates among older adults. We use a population-based survey …

Background HIV and non-communicable disease (NCD) are syndemic within sub-Saharan
Africa especially among older persons. The two epidemics interact with one another within a …

The interface between humans, domestic animals, and wildlife has been implicated in the
emergence of infectious diseases and the persistence of endemic human and animal …

Background: The pre-pubertal socioeconomic environment may be an important
determinant of age at menarche, adult height, body proportions and adiposity: traits closely …

Objectives We examined the potential influence of both sample selection effects and
Hawthorne effects in the behavioural HIV Prevention Trial Network 068 study, designed to …

Objective A limited understanding exists of the relationship between disability and older
persons' living arrangements in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We examine the …