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A COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF HOME-BASED HIV COUNSELLING AND TESTING INTERVENTION VERSUS THE STANDARD (FACILITY BASED) HIV TESTING STRATEGY IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA.

Author/s: Tabana H, Nkonki L, Hongoro C, Doherty T, Ekström AM, Naik R, Zembe-Mkabile W, Jackson D, Thorson A.

Publication details: (2015)  PLoS ONE 10(8): e0135048. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0135048

Adherence to anti-retroviral therapy in North Central Nigeria

Author/s: Avong YK ,van Wyk B, Njab J, Abimiku AG, Ndembi N, Okuma J, Ogbanufe O, Ekong E, Dakum P & Blattner W.

Publication details: (2015). Current HIV Research, 13(4), 268-278.

An Approach to Developing a Prediction Model of Fertility Intent Among HIV-Positive Women and Men in Cape Town, South Africa: A Case Study.

Author/s: Dan Bai, Cheng-Shiun Leu, Joanne E. Mantell, Theresa M. Exner, Diane Cooper, Susie Hoffman, Elizabeth A. Kelvin, Landon Myer, Debbie Constant, Jennifer Moodley.  

Publication details: AIDS Behav 2016 DOI 10.1007/s10461-016-1441-7

An explorative qualitative study of experiences and challenges to exclusive breastfeeding among mothers in rural Zimbabwe.

Author/s: Nduna T, Marais D & van Wyk B.

Publication details: (2015). ICAN: Infant, Child & Adolescent Nutrition journal, 7(2). doi:10.1177/1941406414568562.

Between the Clinic and the Community: Temporality and Patterns of ART Adherence in the Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Author/s: Larkan F, van Wyk B, Stevens P & Saris AJ

Publication details: (2015). African Sociological Review, 19(2), 26-52.

Clinic-level factors influencing patient outcomes on antiretroviral therapy in primary health clinics in South Africa.

Author/s: Charalambous S, Grant AD, Churchyard GJ, Mukora R, Schneider H, Fielding KL.

Publication details: AIDS. 2016 Apr 24;30(7):1099-109. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000001014.

Distributed-efficacy and social practice in the context of 'ending AIDS'.

Author/s: Burman CJ, Aphane M, Mamabolo R, Mtapuri O, Delobelle P.  

Publication details: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa. 2015;11(1):39-63.

Effects of early feeding on growth velocity and overweight/obesity in a cohort of HIV unexposed South African infants and children.

Author/s: Vundli Ramokolo, Carl Lombard, Meera Chhagan, Ingunn MS Engebretsen, Tanya Doherty, Ameena E Goga, Lars Thore Fadnes, Wanga Zembe, Debra J Jackson and Jan Van den Broeck.

Publication details: International Breastfeeding Journal 2015, 10:14 doi:10.1186/s13006-015-0041-x

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Empowering patients to link to care and treatment: qualitative findings about the role of a home-based HIV counselling, testing and linkage intervention in South Africa.

Author/s: Lucia C. Knight, Heidi Van Rooyen, Hilton Humphries, Ruanne V. Barnabas and Connie Celum.

Publication details: AIDS Care, Vol 27, Issue 9, 2015 pp 1162-1167 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2015.1035633

Expanding the prevention armamentarium portfolio: A framework for promoting HIV-Conversant Communities within a complex, adaptive epidemiological landscape.

Author/s: Burman CJ, Aphane M, Mtapuri O, Delobelle P.

Publication details: SAHARA: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance. 2015 Dec;12(1):18-29. PubMed PMID: 25888256.

Extended pre-exposure prophylaxis with lopinavir–ritonavir versus lamivudine to prevent HIV-1 transmission through breastfeeding up to 50 weeks in infants in Africa (ANRS 12174): a randomised controlled trial.

Author/s: Nicolas Nagot, Chipepo Kankasa, James K Tumwine, Nicolas Meda, G Justus Hofmeyr, Roselyne Vallo, Mwiya Mwiya, Mary Kwagala, Hugues Traore, Amwe Sunday, Mandisa Singata, Chafye Siuluta, Eric Some, David Rutagwera, Desire Neboua, Grace Ndeezi, Debra Jackson, Valérie Maréchal, Dorine Neveu, Ingunn M S Engebretsen, Carl Lombard, Stéphane Blanche, Halvor Sommerfelt, Claire Rekacewicz, Thorkild Tylleskär, Philippe Van de Perre†, for the ANRS 12174 Trial Group.

Publication details: www.thelancet.com Published online November 18, 2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00984-8

Factors associated with linkage to care following home-based HIV counseling and testing: a prospective cohort study in rural South Africa.

Author/s: Naik R, Fox MP, Doherty T, Jackson D, Tabana H, Swanevelder S, Thea D, Feeley F.

Publication details: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2015; 18:19843. http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.1.19843

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HIV Counselling and Testing in Secondary Schools: What Students Want.

Author/s: Estelle Lawrence, Patricia Struthers, Geert van Hove.

Publication details: Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine; Vol 16, No 1 (2015), 6 pages. doi: 10.4102/hivmed.v16i1.390

http://sajhivmed.org.za/index.php/hivmed/article/view/390

 

HIV/AIDS Competent Households: Interaction between a Health-Enabling Environment and Community-Based Treatment Adherence Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Author/s: Caroline Masquillier, Edwin Wouters, Dimitri Mortelmans, Brian van Wyk, Harry Hausler, Wim Van Damme.  

Publication details: PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0151379 March 10, 2016

Impact of maternal HIV seroconversion during pregnancy on early HIV vertical transmission, South Africa 2011-2012

Author/s: Dinh TH, Delaney K, Goga A, Jackson D, Lombard C, Woldesenbet S, Mogashoa M, Pillay Y, Shaffer N. 

Publication details: PLOS One. 2015; 10(5): e0125525. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125525

Improving the counselling skills of lay counsellors in antiretroviral adherence settings: a cluster randomised controlled trial in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Author/s: Dewing S1, Mathews C, Schaay N, Cloete A, Simbayi L, Louw J.

Publication details: AIDS Behav. 2015 Jan;19(1):157-65. doi: 10.1007/s10461-014-0781-4.

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Independent and interactive effects of HIV infection, clinical stage and other comorbidities on survival of children treated for severely malnourished in rural South Africa: A retrospective multi-cohort study


Publication details: South African journal of child health 11(1):46 · March 2017 DOI: 10.7196/SAJCH.2017.v11i1.1202

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Knowledge and Attitudes of non-occupational HIV post-exposure Prophylaxis amongst first- and second-year Medical Students at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

Author/s: Nondumiso B.Q. Ncube, Willem A.J. Meintjes, Lumbwe Chola.

Publication details: African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 6, No 1 (2014), 9 pages. doi: 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.665

Missed Opportunities along the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Services Cascade in South Africa: Uptake, Determinants, and Attributable Risk (the SAPMTCTE)

Author/s: Selamawit Woldesenbet, Debra Jackson, Carl Lombard, Thu-Ha Dinh, Adrian Puren, Gayle Sherman, Vundli Ramokolo, Tanya Doherty, Mary Mogashoa, Sanjana Bhardwaj, Mickey Chopra, Nathan Shaffer, Yogan Pillay, Ameena Goga, South African PMTCT Evaluation (SAPMCTE) Team.

Publication details: PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0132425 July 6, 2015 1/15

Missed opportunities for early infant HIV Diagnosis: Results of a National Study in South Africa.

Author/s: Woldesenbet S Jackson D, Doherty T and 5 others.  

Publication details: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 2015 68 (3) 1525-4135

Narrative Methods and Sociocultural Linguistic Approaches in Facilitating In-depth Understanding of HIV Disclosure in a Cohort of Women and Men in Cape Town, South Africa.

Author/s: Diane Cooper, Joanne E. Mantell, Ntobeko Nywagi, Nomazizi Cishe and Katherine Austin-Evelyn.

Publication details: Frontiers in Public Health, May 2016 | Volume 4 | Article 95
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00095

 

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Obligation to family during times of transition: care, support and the response to HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa.

Author/s: Lucia Knight, Victoria Hosegood & Ian M. Timæus

Publication details: (2016). AIDS Care, 28:sup4, 18-29, DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1195486

On the road to HIV/AIDS competence in the household: building a health-enabling environment for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Author/s: Masquillier C, Wouters E, Mortelmans D & van Wyk B.

Publication details: (2015). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,12(3): 3264–3292. doi: 10.3390/ijerph120303264

Perceptions of HIV and sexual risk behaviours among community members in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

Author/s: Davids A, Simbayi L & van Wyk B.

Publication details: (2015). Journal of Global Health Care Systems, 5(3).
doi: http://www.jghcs.info/index.php/j/article/view/399

Re-imagining decision making: addressing a discrete social driver of HIV/AIDS through the lens of complexity science.

Author/s: Burman CJ, Moerschell L, Mamabolo R, Aphane M, Delobelle P.  

Publication details: African Journal of AIDS Research. 2015 2015/01/02;14(1):75-84.

Realist evaluation of the antiretroviral treatment adherence club programme in selected primary healthcare facilities in the metropolitan area of Western Cape Province, South Africa: a study protocol.

Author/s: Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Sara Van Belle, Bruno Marchal, Brian Van Wyk.

Publication details: BMJ Open 2016;6:e009977 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-009977

Reducing the overall HIV-burden in South Africa: is ‘reviving ABC’ an appropriate fit for a complex, adaptive epidemiological HIV landscape?

Author/s: Burman CJ, Aphane M, Delobelle P. 

Publication details: African Journal of AIDS Research. 2015 2015/01/02;14(1):13-28.

Risk factors for incident HIV infection among antenatal mothers in rural Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Author/s: Charles Bitamazire Businge, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza and Verona Mathews.

Publication details: Glob Health Action 2016, 9: 29060 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.29060.

Sexual and reproductive healthperceptions and practices as revealed in the sexual history narratives of SouthAfrican men living in a time of HIV/AIDS.

Author/s: Stern E, Rau, A and Cooper D. 2015.

Publication details: Journal of Social Aspects of AIDS.11:1, 233-244, DOI: 10.1080/17290376.2014.985701

The HIV Epidemic and Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy Integration: Views of South African Policymakers.

Author/s: Diane Cooper, Joanne E Mantell, Jennifer Moodley and Sumaya Mall. 

Publication details: BMC Public Health (2015) 15:217 DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1577-9

The impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) service scale-up on mechanisms of accountability in Zambian primary health centres: a case-based health systems analysis.

Author/s: Topp SM, Black J, Morrow M, Chipukuma JM, Van Damme W.

Publication details: BMC Health Services Research (2015) 15:67 DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-0703-9

The process of developing distributed-efficacy and social practice in the context of ‘ending AIDS

Author/s: C BURMAN, M APHANE, R MAMABOLO, O MTAPURI, P DELOBELLE. 
Publication details:  TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 11(1) July 2015, pp. 39-63.

The ‘community’ in community case management of childhood illnesses in Malawi.

Author/s: Zembe-Mkabile WZ, Jackson D, Sanders D, Besada D, Daniels K, Zamasiya T and Doherty T.

Publication details: Global Health Action 2016. 9: 29177

Towards Developing an Initial Programme Theory: Programme Designers’ and Managers’ Assumptions on the Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence Club Programme in Primary Health Care Facilities in the Metropolitan Area of Western Cape Province, South Africa.

Author/s: Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Sara Van Belle, Bruno Marchal, Brian Van Wyk.

Publication details: PLoS ONE. 10.1371/journal.pone.0161790

Weak signal detection: A discrete window of opportunity for achieving ‘Vision 90:90:90’?

Author/s: Christopher J. Burman, Marota Aphane & Peter Delobelle.

Publication details: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS: An Open Access Journal Volume 13, Issue 1, 2016; DOI:10.1080/17290376.2015.1123642

What are the constraints and opportunities for HIVST scale-up in Africa? Evidence from Kenya, Malawi and South Africa.

Author/s: Heidi van Rooyen, Olivia Tulloch, Wanjiru Mukoma, Tawanda Makusha, Lignet Chepuka, Lucia C Knight, Roger B Peck, Jeanette M Lim, Nelly Muturi, Ellen Chirwa and Miriam Taegtmeyer.

Publication details: Journal of the International AIDS Society 2015, 18:19445
http://www.jiasociety.org/index.php/jias/article/view/19445
http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.1.19445

 

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Which New Health Technologies Do We Need to Achieve an End to HIV/AIDS?

Author/s: Gray GE, Laher F, Doherty T, Abdool Karim S, Hammer S, Mascola J, et al

Publication details: (2016).  PLoS Biol 14(3): e1002372. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002372

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HIV Self-Testing Could “Revolutionize Testing in South Africa, but It Has Got to Be Done Properly”: Perceptions of Key Stakeholders.

Author/s: Tawanda Makusha, Lucia Knight, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Olivia Tulloch, Adlai Davids, Jeanette Lim, Roger Peck, Heidi van Rooyen.

Publication details: PLoS ONE 10(3): e0122783DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0122783 March 31, 2015

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