Systematic review of mHealth interventions for adolescent and young adult HIV prevention and the adolescent HIV continuum of care in low to middle income …

M Goldstein, M Archary, J Adong, JE Haberer… - AIDS and Behavior, 2023 - Springer
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) in low to middle income countries (LMIC) have poorer
outcomes along each step in the HIV continuum of prevention and care compared to …

Blockchain and artificial intelligence technology for novel coronavirus disease 2019 self-testing

TP Mashamba-Thompson, ED Crayton - Diagnostics, 2020 - mdpi.com
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is rapidly spreading with a rising death toll
and transmission rate reported in high income countries rather than in low income countries …

Effectiveness of linkage to care and prevention interventions following HIV self-testing: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

OA Adeagbo, OA Badru, CN Nkfusai, LE Bain - AIDS and Behavior, 2024 - Springer
Over 38.4 million people were living with HIV globally in 2021. The HIV continuum includes
HIV testing, diagnosis, linkage to combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), and retention in …

Process evaluation of peer-to-peer delivery of HIV self-testing and sexual health information to support HIV prevention among youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South …

OA Adeagbo, J Seeley, D Gumede, S Xulu… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Peer-to-peer (PTP) HIV self-testing (HIVST) distribution models can increase
uptake of HIV testing and potentially create demand for HIV treatment and pre-exposure …

Effect of peer-distributed HIV self-test kits on demand for biomedical HIV prevention in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a three-armed cluster-randomised trial …

M Shahmanesh, TN Mthiyane, C Herbsst… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Study objective We investigated two peer distribution models of HIV self-testing (HIVST) in
HIV prevention demand creation compared with trained young community members (peer …

Thetha Nami: participatory development of a peer-navigator intervention to deliver biosocial HIV prevention for adolescents and youth in rural South Africa

M Shahmanesh, N Okesola, N Chimbindi, T Zuma… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Despite effective biomedical tools, HIV remains the largest cause of
morbidity/mortality in South Africa–especially among adolescents and young people. We …

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 …

Cohort profile: South African population research infrastructure network (SAPRIN)

MA Collinson, T Mudzana, T Mutevedzi… - International Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Since SAPRIN's inception in 2016, three existing health and demographic surveillance
system (HDSS) nodes in South Africa have been brought together to form a harmonized …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities for technologically driven dialogical health communication for participatory interventions: Perspectives from male peer navigators in rural South …

A Gibbs, D Gumede, M Luthuli, Z Xulu… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
There is increasing interest in the potential to deliver participatory dialogical HIV and
intimate partner violence (IPV) prevention interventions via digital platforms, though the …

[HTML][HTML] Khuluma: using participatory, Peer-Led and digital methods to deliver psychosocial support to young people living with HIV in South Africa

M Atujuna, N Simpson, M Ngobeni… - … in Reproductive Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Khuluma is a psychosocial and peer-to-peer mHealth intervention that uses text messaging
to facilitate support groups for adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) with the aim of …