Behavioural strategies to reduce HIV transmission: how to make them work better

TJ Coates, L Richter, C Caceres - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
This paper makes five key points. First is that the aggregate effect of radical and sustained
behavioural changes in a sufficient number of individuals potentially at risk is needed for …

Preventing HIV infection in women: a global health imperative

QA Karim, S Sibeko, C Baxter - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Women account for approximately one-half of all human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
infections worldwide. Sexual transmission is the dominant mode of HIV transmission to …

Predictors of condom use among young adults in South Africa: The reproductive health and HIV research unit national youth survey

ES Hendriksen, A Pettifor, SJ Lee… - … journal of public …, 2007 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We examined correlates of condom use among a national random probability
sample of sexually experienced young adults aged 15 to 24 years (n= 7686) in South Africa …

Early coital debut and associated HIV risk factors among young women and men in South Africa

A Pettifor, K O'Brien, C MacPhail, WC Miller… - … perspectives on sexual …, 2009 - JSTOR
METHODS: Data from a nationally representative survey that included 7,692 sexually active
South African youth aged 1 5-24 were used to assess characteristics related to sexual debut …

HIV risk perceptions and first sexual intercourse among youth in Cape Town, South Africa

KG Anderson, AM Beutel, B Maughan-Brown - International family planning …, 2007 - JSTOR
METHODS: Longitudinal data collected in 2002 and 2005 from 3,017 black, colored and
white youth in Cape Town, South Africa, were analyzed using multivariate regression to …

South African adolescents: pathways to risky sexual behavior

DW Brook, NK Morojele, C Zhang… - AIDS Education & …, 2006 - Guilford Press
This study tested a developmental model of pathways to risky sexual behavior among South
African adolescents. Participants comprised 633 adolescents, 12–17 years old, recruited …

A decade later: follow-up review of South African research on the consequences of and contributory factors in teen-aged pregnancy

CI Macleod, T Tracey - South African Journal of Psychology, 2010 - journals.co.za
In this paper, we review South African research conducted in the last 10 years on the
consequences of and contributory factors in teen-aged pregnancy. We discuss research into …

Condom use among South African adolescents: Develo** and testing theoretical models of intentions and behavior

A Bryan, A Kagee, MR Broaddus - AIDS and Behavior, 2006 - Springer
We developed and tested models of intentions and behavior among adolescents from Cape
Town, South Africa. Data from 261 participants who completed an initial measure of …

Factors associated with consistent condom use among rural young women in South Africa

N Jama Shai, R Jewkes, J Levin, K Dunkle, M Nduna - AIDS care, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Despite high levels of awareness of HIV, condom use, particularly consistent use, is
suboptimal among young South African women. This paper aims to investigate the factors …

Sexual risk reduction interventions do not inadvertently increase the overall frequency of sexual behavior: a meta-analysis of 174 studies with 116,735 participants

ND Smoak, LAJ Scott-Sheldon… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
A meta-analytic review of the influence of HIV risk reduction interventions on sexual
occasions, number of partners, and abstinence was conducted to assess whether condom …