Four-country report on formative research into the development of a HIV behavioural risk reduction intervention for PLWHA: Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): A.Strebel, A.Cloete, L.Simbayi, D.Ntseane, K.Nthomang, M.Segwabe, O.Phorano
KEYWORDS: BOTSWANA, HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS PREVENTION, LESOTHO, SWAZILAND
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6360
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4252
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4252
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Abstract
This research project was part of a multi-country study which was conducted in eight sub-Saharan African countries including four in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, namely South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland from 2005 to 2007. The main goal of the overall project was to develop and/or adapt behavioural and supportive interventions to assist people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) reduce their risk of re-infection or infecting others.-
Related Research Outputs:
- Impact of HIV/AIDS on SADC countries: recommendations to funders
- Southern Africa: a review of the region
- An audit of HIV/AIDS policies in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe
- Globalization and emerging trends in African states' foreign policy-making process
- Examining women's vulnerability to HIV transmission and the impact of AIDS: the role of peer education/peer support in Lesotho's garment industry
- The phenomenology of bodily care: caregivers' experiences with AIDS patients before antiretroviral therapies in Lesotho
- Civil society organizations and their capacity to implement HIV/AIDS programmes in Gaborone, Botswana
- HIV/AIDS and land: case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa
- Review of the HIV/AIDS policy, legislation, financing & implementation of programmes in Mozambique
- Research visit to Swaziland, Lesotho and Mauritius
- A review of HIV/AIDS policy, financing, legislation and programmes: South African case study: Draft
- The impact of HIV/AIDS on the health sector: national survey of health personnel, ambulatory and hospitalised patients and health facilities, 2002
- Prevention of mother to child transmission: a report of an assessment of a pilot programme in fifteen health facilities in Gauteng province
- A comparative analysis of the financing of HIV/AIDS programmes in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, October 2003
- The development, implementation and evaluation of interventions for the care of orphans and vulnerable children in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe: A literature review of evidence-based interventions for home-based child-centred development
- HIV/AIDS/STD knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours in a rural South African adult population
- HIV/Aids and land: case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa
- A study to determine the links between HIV/AIDS, current demographic status and livelihoods in rural Swaziland
- Traditional healers on board to fight HIV/AIDS
- HIV/AIDS impact assessment study project: first trimester report March - July 2006