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The aim of the national prevalence survey is to enhance TB control in South Africa by informing the National TB Control Programme about the current ep....
Scope of work
The scope of work would include the following analytic work:
1.Analysis of data from three groups of participants (young, old and mixe....
The aim of this study is to map men's sexual behaviours from the perspective of their female sex partners. We aim to ascertain whether and how men's s....
Quality care is essential to the well-being and survival of people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The aim of this study is to explore....
A community-based HIV self-testing study in Blantyre, Malawi demonstrated that not all individuals living in couples tested with their partner. We des....
In the era of ambitious HIV targets, novel HIV testing models are required for hard-to-reach groups such as men, who remain underserved by existing se....
The focus of this study is to understand why men with tuberculosis (TB) in the community remain undiagnosed. A multi-method qualitative study applying....
Crucial to finding and treating the 4 million tuberculosis (TB) patients currently missed by national TB programmes, TB stigma is receiving well-deser....
The provision of good quality education in public sector schools in South Africa is intrinsically linked to the health,
wellbeing and productivity of ....
The objectives of this evaluation was to evaluate the relevance, impact, efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of the HEAIDS FTF campaign using....
Delay by men in seeking healthcare results in their higher mortality while on HIV or tuberculosis (TB) treatment and contributes to ongoing community-....
Tuberculosis (TB) is highly infectious and one of the leading killers globally. Several studies from sub-Saharan Africa highlight health systems chall....
Men's healthcare-seeking delay results in higher mortality while on HIV or tuberculosis (TB) treatment, and implies contribution to ongoing community-....
This chapter explains the key concepts and background as well as the four key roles among Zimbabwean Tonga religious practitioners. The identify and ....
Young people face sexual and reproductive health (SRH) problems including Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (A....
Conceptualizing father presence or absence in discreet terms masks the fluidity of men's involvement with children. It is necessary, in the case of Af....
Children develop in several interlocking systems in the context of their family, and within the interaction of such settings as home, school, and chur....
In this chapter, we examine fathers and father figures, and their changing roles in different cultural contexts; we draw attention to the notion of so....
According to the terms of reference, the main objective of this independent assessment was to add value to the country-level reviews by providing crit....
In examining men's perspectives of contraceptive use and abortion, JEREMIAH CHIKOVORE identifies contradictions and multiplicities within gender rela....
Having an involved father at home can make a big difference in the life of a young child. For one thing, the household with a father in residence is ....
What does it take to be a 'good man'? Men throughout the world are frequently subjected to negative representation. In the South African context this ....
Objective: To qualitatively investigate reasons why individuals who reported chronic cough of 2 weeks or more in a cross-sectional prevalence survey h....
Concerns regarding HIV and AIDS were elicited from 546 school youths (51% female, age range 9-25 years) in a Zimbabwean rural district, through a self....
Men's poorer engagement with healthcare generally and HIV care specifically, compared to women, is well-described. Within the HIV public health domain....
In the context of the ANRS 12249 Treatment as Prevention (TasP) trial, we investigated perceptions of regular and repeat HIV-testing in rural KwaZulu-....
A study to investigate why men do not seek care for TB-related symptoms setting.....
Poor-quality tuberculosis (TB) care is now a larger barrier to reducing mortality than poor access. South Africa (SA) has one of the highest TB burden....
Studies utilising Standardised Patients ( SP) to evaluate quality of tuberculosis care have become increasingly common in high burden countries howeve....
Mandatory face-to-face counselling is necessary during HIV testing but difficult to implement within the context of HIV self-testing. We investigated ....
Tuberculosis (TB) is treatable but is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide, with men over-represented in some key aspects of the disease bu....
Ten million people fell ill with TB worldwide in 2019, of whom 1.4 million died, and 2.9 million were not notified, or not diagnosed1 and therefore co....
We examined how different sectors of society experienced the first 21 days of the stay-at-home lockdown following the onset of the coronavirus disease....
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of mortality globally and particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Sex and gender interact with oth....
Medicine prescribing practices are integral to quality of care for leading infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (TB). We describe prescribing prac....
This paper assesses the levels of antiretroviral treatment (ART) adherence and mental health distress among study participants in a national behaviour....
Background South Africa has high burdens of tuberculosis (TB) and TB-HIV, yet the quality of patient care in the private sector is unknown. We describ....
Despite advances made in HIV prevention and treatment interventions in South Africa, barriers to their utilization continue to exist. Understanding pe....
Tuberculosis remains an important clinical and public health issue in South Africa, which has one of the
highest tuberculosis burdens in the world. We....
