This project consists of five programme areas which are: Strategic Information, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission, Other prevention: Medical ....
The provision of good quality education in public sector schools in South Africa is intrinsically linked to the health,
wellbeing and productivity of ....
This policy brief makes recommendations in terms of policy and programmes on female condoms.....
Globally intimate partner violence (IPV) is a public health problem that can be perpetrated by both males and females, although males are more likely ....
The Stigma Index measures the level of stigma and discrimination experienced by People living with HIV (PLHIV), and is a survey undertaken by nearly 5....
In South Africa, the key behavioural risk factors increasing vulnerability to HIV infection are age disparate sexual relationships, teenage pregnancy,....
The sexual behavior of individuals living with HIV determines the onward transmission of HIV. With the understanding that antiretroviral therapy (ART)....
SANAC has acknowledged that stigma and discrimination of PLHIV needs to be addressed. SANAC noted that although there has been tremendous progress mad....
Sexual risk behaviors place either of the sexual partners involved at increased risk of some negative health outcomes such as
increasing the chance o....
Condom use has increased significantly over the past decade among all adult age groups in South Africa, and it is widely believed to have played a maj....
South African townships have among the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Considerable research on understanding the high rates of HIV trans....
Little research has investigated interventions to improve the delivery of counselling in health care settings. We determined the impact of training an....
To date, there is a dearth of surveillance data on the prevalence of HIV and associated risk behaviours among men who have sex with men (MSM) in South....
This study explored South African adolescents' perceived risk and protection for HIV infection. Adolescents (N = 28) with a mean age of 14.6 years rec....
South Africa is known to have particularly high levels of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. This study aims to examine
the association b....
The first part of this chapter provides an account of the history of HIV and AIDS in South Africa through a review of the literature. The next sectio....
HIV counselling and testing (HCT) is considered important because it is an entry point to a comprehensive continuum of care for
HIV/AIDS. The South A....
South Africa ranks third highest in the world in generating new cases of the highly contagious disease, Tuberculosis and is one of the 22 high TB-burd....
South Africa has a high prevalence of mental health disorders - a substantial number of which remain undiagnosed and untreated. A South African popul....
The objectives of the current national study were to determine the rates of self-reported circumcision among South African men and, more importantly, ....
High risk sexual behaviour, alcohol and drug use, and mental health problems combine to yield high levels of HIV-risk behaviour among adolescents with....
The report covers the epidemiology of HIV from both social and biomedical points of view, providing us not only with statistical data on HIV prevalenc....
Male condoms remain a key tool in preventing the spread of HIV and the female condom (FC) holds similar potential. Using data collected through a nati....
Alcohol misuse remains a serious problem among South Africans, as almost a third of heads of households in informal urban areas who participated in SA....
Abstract: Alcohol use has been closely linked with HIV risk behaviors in South Africa. The places where people drink are often the same settings in w....
Concurrent sexual relationships facilitate the spread of HIV infection, and sex with non-primary partners may pose particularly high risks for HIV tra....
Construction firms have an important role in combating HIV/AIDS in the South African construction industry. The HIV/AIDS intervention management pract....
HIV testing benefits those who test positive, allowing them to receive treatment, but the benefits for those who test negative remain controversial. W....
Options for Health is an evidence-based sexual risk reduction intervention based on Motivational Interviewing (MI). Thirty-nine antiretroviral adheren....
South Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. Because living with HIV is stressful and because alcohol consumption is often used to cop....
It is generally assumed that orphan status increases the risk to children of a range of negative outcomes. In South Africa, death of parents due to HI....
South African townships have high HIV prevalence and a strong need for collective action to change normative sexual risk behaviors. This study investi....
South Africa is undergoing a process of epidemiological transition from infectious to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). While the burden of infectious....
This chapter briefly discuss same-sex behaviour and sexual identities in southern Africa in particular. Research findings from a qualitative study of....
In the Western Cape, lay counsellors are tasked with supporting antiretroviral (ARV) adherence in public healthcare clinics. Thirty-nine counsellors i....
Background: Women in South Africa are at particularly high-risk for HIV infection and are dependent on their male partners'
use of condoms for sexual....
There is growing interest in standard care programmes for antiretroviral (ARV) adherence support. In South Africa, individual counselling following AR....
This study examined the association between alcohol use and sexual behaviors among South African adults who reported current drinking. Street-interce....
The most efficient sexual behavior for HIV transmission is unprotected receptive anal intercourse. However, it is unclear what role heterosexual unpr....
South Africa's Constitutional protections against discrimination for sexual orientation afford countless opportunities to bring men who have sex with ....
It is now indisputable that male circumcision performed in a medical facility protects against HIV. But there is also evidence that the protective ben....
Health care systems have been described as ideal settings for behaviour change counselling interventions. There is little research evaluating the feas....
South Africa urgently needs HIV behavioural disinhibition risk reduction interventions for recently circumcised men for use in
clinic and community s....
Medical male circumcision (MMC) is now considered one of the best available evidence-based biomedical HIV prevention interventions. However, there is ....
Research capacity building engenders assets that allow communities (and, in this case, student fellows) to respond adequately to health issues and pro....
The aim of this study was to test a 180-minute group HIV risk-reduction counseling intervention trial with men undergoing traditional circumcision in ....
South Africa is home to the largest population of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Of this population gender non-conforming women like women who h....
We investigated alcohol-related sexual risk behavior from the perspective of social norms theory. Adults (N = 895, 62% men) residing in a South Afric....
This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study to investigate the challenges faced by people living with HIV/AIDS
(PLWHA) in communities in....
Objectives. We sought to examine behavioral risks and behavior changes associated with testing HIV-positive among sexually transmitted infection (STI)....
Understanding the general health status of children aged 18 years and below in relation to the HIV epidemic is paramount in South Africa - a country t....
This case study with one lay adherence counsellor assessed the implementation of Options for Health, a sexual risk-reduction intervention based on Mot....
Objective: To evaluate the feasibility, fidelity, and effect of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk reduction intervention delivered to HIV-infe....
This research project was part of a multi-country study which was conducted in eight sub-Saharan African countries including four in the Southern Afri....
South Africa has one of the fastest growing HIV epidemics in the world and new infections may often result from people who have tested HIV positive. T....
Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most affected region in the global AIDS epidemic. More than two out of three (68%) adults and nearly 90% of children in....
This chapter focuses on some sociocultural aspects of life within the majority black African population of South Africa, most of whom speak languages ....
This chapter highlights the critical importance of a continued focus on youth given the large spikes in HIV incidence in this age cohort, and also bec....
The gains made in international advocacy for children and families affected by HIV and AIDS still need to be achieved in South Africa. The gains made....
South Africa has the highest rates of HIV infection of any country in the world. Once an individual has been tested for HIV, prevention can be reinfo....
This chapter discussed the rationale for positive prevention and define its parameters, namely what positive prevention is and what it is not. We als....
The editors present the South African crisis as a template for addressing the myriad issues surrounding the epidemic worldwide, as the book brings tog....
Anal intercourse is an efficient mode of HIV transmission and may play a role in the heterosexual HIV epidemics of southern Africa. However, little i....
