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Who is sexually active? Using a multicomponent sexual activity profile (MSAP) to explore, identify and describe sexuallyactive high-school students in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(BMC, 2019)
: Understanding sexual activity is necessary to prevent sexually transmitted infections. Evidence from
Sub-Saharan Africa suggests that 10–20% of youth aged 15–24 are sexually active before reaching 15 years, yet
estimating ...
“I would love if there was a young woman to encourage us, to ease our anxiety which we would have if we were alone”: Adapting the mothers2mothers mentor mother model for adolescent mothers living with HIV in Malawi
(Public Library of Science, 2019)
Pregnant and post-partum adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living with HIV in
sub-Saharan Africa experience inferior outcomes along the prevention of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV (PMTCT) cascade compared to ...
Social and economic barriers to adherence among patients at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia
(AOSIS, 2019)
Zambia is one of the countries hardest hit by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic with a national HIV prevalence estimated at 14% among those aged 15–49 years in ...
Development of a context-sensitive physical activity intervention for persons living with HIV and AIDS of low socioeconomic status using the behaviour change whee
(BCM, 2019)
: Regular physical activity (PA) has been recommended for the management of HIV and AIDS. The
purpose of this study was to develop a contextualised intervention for promoting PA among women living with
HIV and AIDS (WLWHA) ...
Trends and predictors of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in an era of protocol changes: Findings from two large health facilities in North East Nigeria
(Plos One, 2019)
Research studies have demonstrated a reduction in the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) to less than 2%, or 5% in non-breastfeeding and breastfeeding populations, respectively, with antiretroviral interventions.
A descriptive analysis of the role of a WhatsApp clinical discussion group as a forum for continuing medical education in the management of complicated HIV and TB clinical cases in a group of doctors in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2019)
As South Africa’s (SA) HIV programme increases in size, HIV/TB cases occur
that are often beyond the clinical scope of primary healthcare clinicians. In SA’s Eastern
Cape (EC) province, health facilities are geographically ...