This study aims to adapt a couple-based motivational interviewing intervention to reduce alcohol use in HIV-affected South African couples and incorpo....
This study aims to to improve understanding of the care journey of people living with HIV in South Africa and identify targeted areas for intervention....
Phase 3 development of the Islatravir (EFdA) monthly oral formulation. This study looks to test the efficacy and feasibility of monthly PrEP as a prev....
COVID 19 DO ART: Demonstration of community-based HIV treatment to implement and evaluate a comprehensive community-based antiretroviral therapy deliv....
The present report presents findings from the baseline quantitative survey data only. It provides a situational analysis of the two districts (KCD and....
HIV/AIDS-related (HAR) stigma is still a prevalent problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, and has been found to be related to mental health of HIV-positive in....
Integrated HIV-non-communicable disease (NCD) services have the potential to avert death and disability, but require data on program costs to assess t....
Community-based HIV testing and counseling (HTC) programs have become an important part of the healthcare system in South Africa and other low- and mi....
Early childhood is a critical phase of development. In low resource settings, monitoring this stage of development and providing appropriate and time....
South Africa faces epidemics of HIV and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The aim of this study was to characterize the prevalence of non-communicable....
The pre-pubertal socioeconomic environment may be an important determinant of age at menarche, adult height, body proportions and adiposity: traits cl....
Socio-economic status (SES) is an important predictor of obesity, but how it is associated with differences in physical activity and sedentary behavio....
Working in an interdisciplinary manner at the crossroads of alcohol and HIV research is a challenge. This paper presents six novel approaches that cou....
mHealth has been proposed to address inefficiencies in the current South African healthcare system, including home-based HIV testing and counseling (H....
Valid measurement of substance use is necessary to evaluate preventive and treatment interventions. Self-report is fast and inexpensive, but its accur....
With the goal of supporting young children living in high HIV and AIDS prevalence areas to better realize their cognitive, social and physical potenti....
While evidence for home based counselling and testing (HBCT) as an effective HIV testing strategy is growing, men are often under-represented in this ....
Young people in South Africa are at high risk of HIV infection and yet may have more limited access to prevention and treatment services than others i....
To examine the feasibility of providing young adults with mobile phones for the purpose of mobile phone assisted self-interviewing to improve retentio....
School choice is a daunting task for caregivers who have to consider which school will optimally support their child's early social, emotional and cog....
There is increased focus on HIV prevention with African men who report experiencing childhood sexual (CSA) or physical abuse (CPA). The objective was ....
Background: Most of the world's women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) reside in sub-Saharan Africa. Although efforts to reduce mother-t....
Mobile phone-assisted personal interviewing (MPAPI) is becoming a more widely used technique to collect survey data. Not having a hard copy paper docu....
Objective: We evaluate the effect of clinic-based support by HIV-positive Peer Mentors, in addition to standard clinic care, on maternal and infant we....
Throughout Africa, Peer Mentors who are women living with HIV (WLH) are supporting pregnant WLH at antenatal and primary healthcare clinics. We evalua....
In South Africa where HIV prevalence is high, mentor mother programmes have been used to promote the health and wellbeing of women enrolled in governm....
HIV-positive pregnant women who drink put their children at risk of both HIV and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. The province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)....
Pregnant women living with HIV (WLH) face daily challenges maintaining their own and their babies' health and mental health. Standard Prevention of Ma....
Mobile phones enable engagement with adolescents through a familiar medium. Survey data are presented from 2,023 South African adolescents who were as....
Project Masihambisane, Zulu for 'let's walk together', is an effectiveness trial aimed at supplementing the government-based prevention of mother-to-c....
Male circumcision decreases HIV acquisition by 60%, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) almost eliminates
HIV transmission from HIV-positive people who a....
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global health problem of epidemic proportions, affecting a third of women across the globe and as many as 60% in ....
There are few readily available, relatively easy to use and culturally adaptable developmental assessment tools for young children in southern Africa.....
There is a growing global acknowledgement that improving child survival rates is no longer sufficient. Emphasis is shifting to the improvement of heal....
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of HIV-associated mortality in Africa. As HIV testing, linkage to care and antiretroviral treatment initiation ....
Prior work on data obtained from the urban Johannesburg-Soweto based Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort has documented extensive levels of travel to ....
This study uses the bioecological framework and methodology to select items for and to test a multidimensional structure of a measure of children's ec....
Conceptualizing both economic well -being (EWB) and children's development as multidimensional constructs, the present study examines their associatio....
There is a high prevalence of untreated postpartum depression among adolescent mothers with the greatest gap in services in low- and middle-income cou....
There has been a recent increase in debates on the ethics of social media research, passive sensor data collection, and big data analytics. However, l....
Populations in low-resource settings with high childhood morbidity and mortality increasingly are being selected as beneficiaries for interventions us....
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is one of the most common causes of preventable intellectual disability, and the key associated deficits are in....
In 2018, South Africa developed 24-hour movement behavior guidelines for children from birth to 5 years. This study reports on the stakeholder consult....
The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) Partnership is an initiative to reduce new HIV infections in Adolescent G....
Current approaches to longitudinal assessment of childrens developmental and psychological well-being, as mandated in the United Nations Sustainable D....
Providing facility-based care to the billions of people living in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) is
a challenge due to the multitude of barr....
In South Africa, men living with HIV are less likely than women to test and know their status (the first UNAIDS 90-90-90 target), and men have worse o....
Introduction: Among people living with HIV in South Africa, viral suppression is lower among men than women. The study aim was to test the impact of l....
Background: The International Study of Movement Behaviours in the Early Years, SUNRISE, was initiated to assess the extent to which young children mee....
Community-based delivery of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV, including ART initiation, clinical and
laboratory monitoring, and refills, could red....
Sub-Saharan Africa has been heavily impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Social data (e.g., social media, internet search, wearable device, etc) show gr....
Adolescents are increasingly experimenting with new 'craze drugs', including over-the-counter cough medicine (OTCCM). However, there is limited empiri....
With the growing ubiquity of smartphones and wearable devices, there is an increased potential of collecting passive sensing data in mobile health. Pa....
This chapter reflects on a practice-based community engagement (CE)2 framework that has evolved over the past 15 years in conducting HIV research in S....
In qualitative interviews, mothers described a range of positive and negative social interactions and the sounds that accompanied these. Potential pos....
This scoping review synthesises evidence on mHealth in South Africa specifically related to the use and application of mobile technology, the populati....
Passive sensor data from mobile devices can shed light on daily activities, social behavior, and maternal-child interactions to improve maternal and c....
UNAIDS fast track targets for ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030 call for viral suppression in 95% of people using antiretroviral therapy (ART) to treat....
COVID-19 deaths had exceeded 5 million globally on Nov 22, 2021.1 As the world struggles to contain COVID-19, the HIV pandemic of more than 37 million....
In South Africa, couple-based interventions (CBIs) have been used to increase HIV testing, reduce HIV transmission, and shift relationship dynamics. T....
It's 2041. Children born during the COVID-19 pandemic are graduating (virtually). For several decades, the internet has been part of everyday adult li....
Although the advanced HIV disease (AHD) care package reduces morbidity and mortality in people with AHD (defined in people living with HIV as WHO stag....
To reach 95% of persons living with HIV (PLWH) knowing their HIV status, alternative testing approaches such as HIV self-testing (HIVST) and secondary....
