Access to primary healthcare during lockdown measures for COVID-19 in rural South Africa: an interrupted time series analysis

MJ Siedner, JD Kraemer, MJ Meyer, G Harling… - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives We evaluated whether implementation of lockdown orders in South Africa
affected ambulatory clinic visitation in rural Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN). Design Observational …

High coverage of ART associated with decline in risk of HIV acquisition in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

F Tanser, T Bärnighausen, E Grapsa, J Zaidi… - Science, 2013 - science.org
The landmark HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052 trial in HIV-discordant couples
demonstrated unequivocally that treatment with antiretroviral therapy (ART) substantially …

Increases in adult life expectancy in rural South Africa: valuing the scale-up of HIV treatment

J Bor, AJ Herbst, ML Newell, T Bärnighausen - Science, 2013 - science.org
The scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is expected to raise adult life expectancy in
populations with high HIV prevalence. Using data from a population cohort of over 101,000 …

Prevalence of sexually transmitted infections among young people in South Africa: A nested survey in a health and demographic surveillance site

SC Francis, TN Mthiyane, K Baisley, SL Mchunu… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and bacterial vaginosis (BV) are
associated with increased transmission of HIV, and poor reproductive and sexual health …

[HTML][HTML] Regression discontinuity designs in epidemiology: causal inference without randomized trials

J Bor, E Moscoe, P Mutevedzi, ML Newell… - …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
When patients receive an intervention based on whether they score below or above some
threshold value on a continuously measured random variable, the intervention will be …

HIV treatment as prevention: systematic comparison of mathematical models of the potential impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV incidence in South Africa

JW Eaton, LF Johnson, JA Salomon… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Many mathematical models have investigated the impact of expanding access
to antiretroviral therapy (ART) on new HIV infections. Comparing results and conclusions …

Antiretroviral therapy in prevention of HIV and TB: update on current research efforts

R Granich, S Gupta, AB Suthar, C Smyth… - Current HIV …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
There is considerable scientific evidence supporting the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART)
in prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) infections. The …

Cohort profile update: Africa Centre Demographic Information System (ACDIS) and population-based HIV survey

D Gareta, K Baisley, T Mngomezulu… - International journal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
ACDIS has made important contributions to our understanding of the HIV epidemic.
However, despite significant increases in antiretroviral therapy (ART) coverage, HIV …

Age patterns of HIV incidence in eastern and southern Africa: a modelling analysis of observational population-based cohort studies

KA Risher, A Cori, G Reniers, M Marston, C Calvert… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background As the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa matures, evidence about the age
distribution of new HIV infections and how this distribution has changed over the epidemic is …

Declines in HIV incidence among men and women in a South African population-based cohort

A Vandormael, A Akullian, M Siedner… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Over the past decade, there has been a massive scale-up of primary and secondary
prevention services to reduce the population-wide incidence of HIV. However, the impact of …