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Aging with HIV: Increased risk of HIV comorbidities in older adults
(MDPI, 2022)
With improved access to antiretroviral treatment (ART), adults with HIV live longer to
reach older age. The number of older adults living with HIV is increasing steadily, giving rise to
a new population of interest in ...
Association between socio-economic factors and HIV self-testing knowledge amongst South African women
(AOSIS, 2022)
Self-testing for HIV is an effective and alternative method of increasing HIV testing rates and a strategy for reaching populations that are underserved by HIV testing services. Nonetheless, many resource-constrained ...
The HIV epidemic in South Africa: Key findings from 2017 national population-based survey
(MDPI, 2022)
South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV worldwide. South Africa
has implemented five population-based HIV prevalence surveys since 2002 aimed at understanding
the dynamics and the trends of the ...
Factors associated with viral suppression among adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Free State province, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2022)
In 2019, about 1.7 million adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 years were living with HIV worldwide, of which 170000 were newly infected with HIV in 2019. South Africa has the highest number of persons living with ...
A systematic method for comparing multimorbidity in national surveys
(BMC, 2022)
Due to gaps in the literature, we developed a systematic method to assess multimorbidity using national
surveys. The objectives of this study were thus to identify methods used to defne and measure multimorbidity, to
create ...
Strengthening health system’s capacity for pre-exposure prophylaxis for adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men in South Africa (SHeS’Cap–PrEP): Protocol for a mixed methods study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
(Public Library of Science, 2022)
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective prevention intervention that can be used to
control HIV incidence especially among people who are at increased risk for HIV such as adolescent
girls and young women (AGYW) ...
A cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a scale to assess illness identity in adults living with a chronic illness in South Africa: A case of HIV
(BMC, 2022)
The chronic illness trajectory and its outcomes are well explained by the concept of illness identity; the extent to which ill individuals have integrated their diagnosed chronic illness into their identity or sense of ...
Can social innovation advance the PMTCT programme? A South African reflection
(Sinnergiak Social Innovation, 2022)
The prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programme is an initiative developed to enable health care practitioners to provide essential care to mothers in order to prevent the transmission of HIV to their ...
Multimorbidity patterns in a national HIV survey of South African youth and adults
(Frontiers Media, 2022)
Information pertaining to multimorbidity is frequently informed by studies
from high income countries and it is unclear how these findings relate to low and middle
income countries, where the burden of infectious disease ...
Is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) stage an independent risk factor for altering the periodontal status of HIV-positive patients? A South African study
(BMC, 2013)
The immunosuppresion in HIV patients makes them highly susceptible to microbial infections. The
aim of the study was to establish whether HIV stage (as depicted by CD4+ T lymphocyte counts) could
independently be associated ...