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The HSRC Research Data Service provides a digital repository facility for the HSRC's research data in support of evidence based human and social development in South Africa and the broader region. Access to data is dependent on ethical requirements for protecting research participants, as well as on legal agreements with the owners, funders or in the case of data owned by the HSRC, the requirements of the depositors of the data. We facilitate data use by preparing comprehensive metadata and disseminating data and related documents to appropriate target audiences. Data sharing is subject to an End User License agreement. Data sets from the following projects have been curated and are available for use:
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Research data: HIV TESTING AND COUNSELLING (HTC)
2014 Secondary trauma and job burnout and associated factors among HIV lay counsellors in Nkangala district, South Africa
Nurses have been found to experience higher levels of stress-related burnout compared to other health care professionals. Despite studies sh...
2014 Uthando Lwethu ('our love'): a protocol for a couples-based intervention to increase testing for HIV: a randomized controlled trial in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Couples-based HIV counseling and testing (CHCT) is a proven strategy to reduce the risk of HIV transmission between partners, but uptake of ...
Download this report2014 Effect of community-based voluntary counselling and testing on HIV incidence and social and behavioural outcomes (NIMH Project Accept; HPTN 043): a cluster-randomised trial
Background Although several interventions have shown reduced HIV incidence in clinical trials, the community-level effect of effective inte...
Download this report2014 Exploring repeat HIV testing among men who have sex with men in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Despite the high prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) and the general adult population in South Africa, there is little d...