Executive summary Far-reaching changes to the structure and function of the Earth's natural
systems represent a growing threat to human health. And yet, global health has mainly …

Background: Monitoring progress toward global treatment targets using HIV programme
data in sub-Saharan Africa has proved challenging. Constraints in routine data collection …

Background Cash transfers have been proposed as an intervention to reduce HIV-infection
risk for young women in sub-Saharan Africa. However, scarce evidence is available about …

Background Virtually all low-and middle-income countries are undergoing an
epidemiological transition whose progression is more varied than experienced in high …

Recent declines in adult HIV-1 incidence have followed the large-scale expansion of
antiretroviral therapy and primary HIV prevention across high-burden communities of sub …

Stigma remains a significant barrier to HIV testing in South Africa. Despite being a social
construct, most HIV-stigma research focuses on individuals; further the intersection of …

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 …

Background In the context of an epidemiologic transition in South Africa, in which
cardiovascular disease is increasing, little is known about the stroke burden, particularly …

Objective To examine how multimorbidity might affect progression along the continuum of
care among older adults with hypertension, diabetes and human immunodeficiency virus …