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“You have to take action”: changing knowledge and attitudes towards newborn care practices during crisis in South Sudan

Sami, Samira; Kerber, Kate; Tomczyk, Barbara; Amsalu, Ribka; Jackson, Debra (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

Highest rates of neonatal mortality occur in countries that have recently experienced conflict. International Medical Corps implemented a package of newborn interventions in June 2016, based on the Newborn health in ...
Youths’ perceptions of the relation between alcohol consumption and risky sexual behaviour in the Western Cape, South Africa: a qualitative study

Carels, Cassandra; Florence, Maria; Adams, Sabirah; Sinclair, Deborah Louise (Springer, 2021)

The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that youth identify as contributing to alcohol consumption, and more specifcally its relation to risky sexual behaviour among youth. We employed an exploratory qualitative ...
‘You’ll always stay right’: understanding vaginal products and the motivations for use among adolescent and young women in rural KZN

Humphries, Hilton; Mehou-Loko, Celia; Phakathi, Sithembile; Mdladla, Makhosazana; Fynn, Lauren; Knight, Lucia; Karim, Quarraisha Abdool (Taylor & Francis, 2018)

The use of vaginal products may increase the risk of HIV infection by affecting the vaginal biome. Understanding what vaginal products young women are using, and why, is key to assessing the complexity of sexual health and ...