Introduction: Adolescents are a unique and sometimes neglected group in the planning of
healthcare services. This is the case in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where more than …

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Background: Little is known about the effect of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) on
life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa. Objective: To estimate life expectancy of patients …

Background A growing number of studies highlight men's disinclination to make use of HIV
services. This suggests there are factors that prevent men from engaging with health …

Background. South Africa's National Strategic Plan (NSP) for 2007-2011 aimed to achieve
new antiretroviral treatment (ART) enrolment numbers equal to 80% of the number of newly …

Background Increased mortality among men on antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been
documented but remains poorly understood. We examined the magnitude of and risk factors …

Background Stigma is a known barrier to HIV testing and care. Because access to
antiretroviral therapy reduces overt illness and mortality, some scholars theorized that HIV …

Background Despite large investments in HIV testing, only an estimated 45% of HIV-infected
people in sub-Saharan Africa know their HIV status. Optimum methods for maximising …

HIV/AIDS and food insecurity are two of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in sub-
Saharan Africa, with each heightening the vulnerability to, and worsening the severity of, the …

Introduction: Increasingly, there is a need for health authority scale up of successfully piloted
differentiated models of antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery. However, there is a paucity of …