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Broadening Mental Health Services to Disadvantaged Communities in South Africa: Reflections on Establishing a Community Based Internship
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sherine van Wyk --- Psychology Department, South Africa Anthony V. Naidoo --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThe need to provide mental health services in disadvantaged communities remains a priority in South Africa. This paper illustrates how in consultation and partnership with the peri-urban community of Jamestown, a counselling psychology internship was established to provide a range... -
Estimating One's Own and Others' Multiple Intelligence: A Cross-Cultural Study from Guinea Bissau and Portugal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Félix Neto --- Universidade do Porto, Portugal Adrian Furnham --- Department of Psychology, UK Maria da Conceição Pinto --- Universidade do Porto, PortugalThis study examined the estimations of multiple intelligences for self, partner and parents. One hundred and fifty two students (males = 81, females = 68, and 3 have not indicated their sex; mean age = 24.02, SD = 3.08) from... -
Experiences of Managers and Healthcare Personnel Involved in a Functional Healthcare Public Private Partnership
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Esmeralda Ricks --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Dalena van Rooyen --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Moloko Priscilla Gantsho --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa Wilma ten Ham --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South AfricaThis study explored the experiences of managers and healthcare personnel involved in a functional healthcare public private partnership (PPP) in a semi-rural area situated in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Data on how managers and healthcare personnel experienced their... -
Children and youth at risk: adaptation and pilot study of the CHAMP (Amaqhawe) programme in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Arvin Bhana Inge Petersen Andy Mason Zoleka Mahintsho Carl Bell Mary McKayThis paper reports on the adaptation and pilot study of the CHAMP programme (Collaborative HIV/AIDS and Adolescent Mental Health Programme) in South Africa with specific reference to outcome effects among adults. CHAMP was originally developed in the United States and... -
Prevalence of HIV infection among premarital couples in southeast Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Odie Ugochukwa Umeora Chidi EsikeThe Catholic Church in Nigeria offers premarital HIV screening to couples, yet instances of voluntary screening are rare in southeast Nigeria. This study examines the contribution of such tests to HIV detection, and evaluates the prevalence of HIV infection in... -
Youth's perceptions of HIV infection risk: a sex-specific test of two risk models
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Yetunde ShoboThe study examines the associations between the cumulative and additive risk models and Nigerian youth's likelihood of perceiving vulnerability to HIV infection. Both models of risk seem to provide unique contributions to such understanding. The analysis is based on data... -
Faithfulness to partners: a means to prevent HIV infection, a source of HIV infection risks, or both? A qualitative study of women's experiences in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: ThomasM Painter KassambaL Diaby DanielleM Matia LillianS Lin ToussaintS Sibailly MoïseK Kouassi EhounouR Ekpini ThierryH Roels StefanZ WiktorA cross-sectional study was carried out at a programme to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV (MTCT) at a public antenatal clinic in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The objectives were to obtain information from women concerning their reactions to HIV test results... -
Predictors of sexual-risk behaviour and HIV-preventive practices among university students in Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Yifru Berhan --- College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ethiopia Dejene Hailu --- College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ethiopia Abraham Alano --- College of Medicine and Health Sciences, EthiopiaA cross-sectional study design was used to assess sexual-risk behaviour and HIV-preventive practices among students at Hawassa University, Ethiopia, in 2009. Among 1 220 students eligible for the study, approximately 29% reported experience of sex (36.3% of the males and... -
Factors associated with HIV infection among sexually experienced adolescents in Africa: a pooled data analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Stella Babalola --- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United StatesThe article examines the factors associated with HIV status among adolescents aged 15–19 years in 13 African countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Malawi, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The data were... -
The Madikwe Forum: a comprehensive partnership for supporting governance of Botswana's HIV and AIDS response
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Gavin George --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Division (HEARD), South Africa Candice Reardon --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Division (HEARD), South Africa Jonathan Gunthorp --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Division (HEARD), South Africa Themba Moeti --- African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP), Botswana Innocent Chingombe --- African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP), Botswana Lesego Busang --- African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP), Botswana Godfrey Musuka --- African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP), BotswanaThere is a need for actors within the philanthropic sector to pursue collaborative partnerships with developing nations which could result in sustainable country-led responses to HIV and AIDS. There is also a need to evaluate the structures governing these partnerships... -
Water policy in southern Africa: A brief synopsis of some of the macro driving forces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AR TurtonThe water sector reforms that are underway in many parts of southern Africa are a manifestation of a global phenomenon. This is rooted in the human response to the undesirable consequences of development, and seeks to introduce the notion of... -
Mutual Participation in the Health Worker-Patient Relationship
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: GJO Marincowitz --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Limpopo Province Unit,The importance of a mutual participatory model in medical care and decision making is supported by literature that now shows a link between patient participation and an improved health outcome. Illness (and the sick role) constitutes a state of diminished... -
Love, lust and the emotional context of multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships among young Swazi adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Allison Ruark --- Department of International Health, USA Lunga Dlamini --- Department of International Health, USA Nonhlanhla Mazibuko --- Department of International Health, USA Edward C Green --- Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, USA Caitlin Kennedy --- Department of International Health, USA Amy Nunn --- Division of Infectious Diseases, USA Timothy Flanigan --- Division of Infectious Diseases, USA Pamela J Surkan --- Department of International Health, USAMen and women in Swaziland who are engaged in multiple or concurrent sexual partnerships, or who have sexual partners with concurrent partners, face a very high risk of HIV infection. Ninety-four in-depth interviews were conducted with 28 Swazi men and... -
Materials science, technology and innovation in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Jung Yong Kim --- Organic Electronics and Spintronics Laboratory, Department of Materials Engineering, EthiopiaIn Ethiopia, the first Materials Engineering Department was inaugurated at Adama Science and Technology University in 2013. The department, pursuing world-class excellence both in teaching and research, will strongly contribute to Materials Science, Technology and Innovation (STI)-led industrialisation in Ethiopia... -
Prospects for the advancement of Women Chartered Accountants in Public Accounting firms in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: E. Sadler --- University of South Africa,Female chartered accountants comprise a small minority of the accounting profession in South Africa, although dramatic increases in their numbers have occurred in recent years. The personnel partners of a selection of public accounting firms were surveyed about their employment... -
Ethics and the Everyday: Reconsidering approaches to research involving children and young people
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rachel Bray --- Centre for Social Science Research, South Africa Imke Gooskens --- Centre for Social Science Research, South AfricaGuidelines on ethical practice in research with children tend to focus on ways to protect children from potential economic and emotional exploitation. While such concerns deserve attention we argue that they represent only a portion of the moral framework in... -
How Partnerships between African and European Entrepreneurs Can Support the UN Post-2015 Development Agenda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Helene Tenzer --- Department of International Business, Germany Markus Pudelko --- Department of International Business, GermanyThis article discusses how the private sector, and here specifically African–European partnerships between entrepreneurs, can assist to attain the development goals formulated by the United Nations’ Post-2015 Agenda for Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on meetings between African and European entrepreneurs convened... -
HHV-8 transmission from mother to child
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: Angela Revelas --- Pathological Department, GreeceTransmission of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8), the aetiological agent of Kaposi’s sarcoma, is known to occur during sex among homosexual men. However, other modes of HHV-8 transmission have yet to be elucidated in endemic populations. -
A Profile of the East African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Frederick Onyango Ogola --- Strathmore University Business School, Kenya George N. Njenga --- Strathmore University Business School, Kenya Peter C. Mhando --- The Pennsylvania State University, USA Moses N. Kiggundu --- Carleton University Sprott School of Business, CanadaRegional integration in East Africa dates back more than a hundred years. This article provides a general synopsis of the East African Community (EAC) and traces the evolution of regional integration in Eastern Africa from colonial times to the present... -
Gender inequality dynamics in the prevention of a heterosexual HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jane Wathuta --- School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThis paper critiques the approach to the elimination of gender inequality as an HIV prevention strategy in the just ended era of the Millennium Development Goals, with the aim of contributing to the formulation of policy guidelines for sub-Saharan Africa... -
Development and characterisation of a modified multi-purpose pine oil detergent for a small-scale manufacturer in Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mosotho George --- Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Lesotho Ts'ukulu Motsamai --- Chemistry and Chemical Technology, LesothoThe interest in small-scale manufacturing of simple products seems to be growing in Lesotho. However, this could have undesirable effects without insights into the chemical processes involved in such presumed simple processes. This manuscript reports the partnership between the National... -
Predictors of multiple concurrent and multiple sexual partnerships among male and female youth aged 18–24 in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Motlatso Gladys Mlambo --- Centre for Rural Health, Family Medicine Department, South Africa Karl Peltzer --- HIV/AIDS/STIs and TB (HAST), Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Witness Chirinda --- Medical Research Council, South AfricaThis study aimed to determine predictors of multiple concurrent and multiple sexual partnerships among South African male and female youth. Data were from a cross-sectional population-based household survey of 3 123 youths aged 18 to 24 years from four South... -
Public-Private Partnerships in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Future Management Research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Bernadine J. Dykes --- Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, USA Carla D. Jones --- College of Business Administration, USAPublic-private partnerships (PPPs) are cooperative arrangements between governments and multinational corporations (MNCs) that are created to finance, construct and manage infrastructure projects. PPPs are a means for governments to gain much-needed private sector investment and expertise for economic development. Historically,... -
Sexual and reproductive health risk behaviours among South African university students: results from a representative campus-wide survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susie Hoffman --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, USA Michael Levasseur --- Department of Epidemiology, USA Joanne E. Mantell --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, USA Mags Beksinska --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South Africa Zonke Mabude --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South Africa Claudia Ngoloyi --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South Africa Elizabeth A. Kelvin --- Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, School of Urban Public Health, Hunter College & The CUNY School of Public Health, USA Theresa Exner --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, USA Cheng-Shiun Leu --- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, USA Lavanya Pillay --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South Africa Jennifer A. Smit --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Health Research Unit (MatCH Research Unit), South AfricaAmong South African university students, HIV prevalence is lower than in age-peers, but at 3.8% it is not negligible. We examined prevalence of factors potentially associated with HIV risk, focusing on partnership characteristics and consistent condom use. We hypothesised that... -
Perceptions of why Malawians engage in concurrent sexual partnerships among a select population of radio listeners: findings from an exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Rupali J Limaye --- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Maryland Amanda Berman --- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Maryland Jane Brown --- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Maryland Triza Kakhobwe --- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, MalawiConcurrent sexual partnerships have been identified as a potential driver in the HIV epidemic in Southern Africa. This study utilised an innovative approach to explore perceptions of why Malawians may engage in these relationships, and their suggestions for reducing the... -
Trust in business alliances between mainstream and emerging companies in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kgope P. Moalusi --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South Africa Melinde Coetzee --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored perceived trust between mainstream and emerging business partner entities in South Africa. A purposive sample of 25 managers from mainstream companies (n = 7) and emerging companies (n = 18) participated in the study. The managers Q-sorted... -
Unpacking the practice of ukujola in contemporary South Africa: understanding informal/casual sexual relations of young African adults in the context of HIV and AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Themba Mgwaba --- School of Built Environment and Development Studies, South Africa Pranitha Maharaj --- DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Economic Development, School of Built Environment and Development Studies, South AfricaHIV and AIDS continue to pose a global health and development challenge, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the world. In spite of the accelerated efforts to combat the... -
Developing governance models and funding mechanisms of state–civil society partnerships for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention based on lessons from Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Martin Hushie --- Department of Behavioural Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, GhanaThe contribution of civil society organisations (CSOs) to national HIV/AIDS responses in sub-Saharan African countries, with Global Health Initiatives’ (GHIs) funding channelled through National AIDS Commissions (NACs), is well researched. Less well understood are the governance models and funding mechanisms... -
Implications of incomplete restorative justice in South African land restitution: lessons from the Moletele case
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nerhene C. Davis --- Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, South AfricaSince 2005, South Africa’s post-apartheid state has opted to impose inclusive business model arrangements between land claimant communities and private sector partners to ensure the “successful” resolution of claims involving prime agricultural land. This approach was deemed compatible to achieve... -
Assessment of an HIV-prevention intervention for couples in peri-urban Uganda: pervasive challenges to relationship quality also challenge intervention effectiveness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Phoebe Kajubi --- , Uganda Allison Ruark --- , USA Norman Hearst --- , USA Sam Ruteikara --- , Uganda Edward C Green --- , USAReducing multiple and concurrent partnerships has been identified as a priority in generalised HIV epidemics, yet developing successful interventions to bring about such behaviour change has proven challenging. We offered a three-session intervention aimed to improve couple relationship quality and... -
Project planning and control analysis for suburban photovoltaic alternative electric power supply in Southwestern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ibikunle Olalekan Ogundari --- , Nigeria Funso Ayotunde Otuyemi --- , UKAlternative photovoltaic (PV) electric power systems are designed for suburban residential complexes in Nigeria’s Southwestern region as succour to erratic grid power supply. The initial project in suburban Ibadan, Oyo State was analyzed as model for other stakeholders in the... -
Women’s perspectives on relationship dynamics with their partners and their role in HIV acquisition, HIV disclosure, hormonal contraceptive uptake, and condom use
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: John C Chapola --- , Malawi Kendra Hatfield-Timajchy --- , USA Agatha K Bula --- , Malawi Stacey Hurst --- , USA Lameck Chinula --- , Malawi Athena P Kourtis --- , USA Jennifer H Tang --- , MalawiBackground: Limited information exists about relationship dynamics and their role in HIV acquisition, HIV disclosure, hormonal contraceptive uptake, and condom use among women in Malawi. -
Barriers to condom use in casual sexual relationships known as ukujola in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mbongeleni Thembalihle Mgwaba --- , South Africa Pranitha Maharaj --- , South AfricaSouth Africa has the largest number of people living with HIV in the world. Of the nine provinces in South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal is the worst affected. HIV is largely transmitted through unprotected penetrative sexual intercourse. Male latex condoms are central... -
“I didn’t support PrEP because I didn’t know what it was”: Inadequate information undermines male partner support for young women’s pre-exposure prophylaxis use in western Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kawango Agot --- , Kenya Miriam Hartmann --- , USA Sophie Otticha --- , Kenya Alexandra Minnis --- , USA Jacob Onyango --- , Kenya Marylyn Ochillo --- , Kenya Sarah T Roberts --- , USAThe HIV infection rate is higher among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Africa than men in the same age range. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can be used by women discreetly; however, for most AGYW, male partner approval is desired... -
Primary health care–family partnership for better diabetes outcomes of patients: a systematic review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: MH Mphasha --- University of Limpopo, South Africa L Skaal --- University of Limpopo, South Africa TM Mothiba --- University of Limpopo, South Africa C Ngoatle --- University of Limpopo, South Africa LS Hlahla --- University of Limpopo, South Africa -
HIV knowledge, disclosure and sexual risk among pregnant women and their partners in rural South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Molatelo Elisa Shikwane --- , South Africa Olga M. Villar-Loubet --- , USA Stephen M. Weiss --- , USA Karl Peltzer --- , South Africa Deborah L. Jones --- , USAPartner involvement has been deemed fundamental for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, although it remains difficult to achieve. This study aimed to explore the attitudes and behaviours of pregnant women and their partners who participated in a... -
To tell or not to tell: Negotiating disclosure for people living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment in a South African setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Pride Linda [d302e18]Disclosure of HIV status occurs for a variety of reasons and in various contexts, such as to sexual partners to enable safer sexual choices, to health-care workers to access treatment and care services and to family and community members to... -
High-risk behaviors among adult men and women in Botswana: Implications for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Mpho Keetile --- , , BotswanaThe government of Botswana has been spending a lot of money in the prevention, treatment, care and support for HIV/AIDS patient for decades. This paper uses data from the third Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS III) to explore high-risk behaviors... -
Social and behavioural factors associated with risky sexual behaviours among university students in nine ASEAN countries: a multi-country cross-sectional study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Siyan Yi --- , , Singapore Vannarath Te --- , , Cambodia Supa Pengpid --- , , Thailand Karl Peltzer --- , , South AfricaWhile university students are potential human resources, this population group is particularly involved in health risk behaviours. Preventing risky sexual behaviours among them would contribute to prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and unwanted pregnancies, which have posed a... -
‘It’s not good to eat a candy in a wrapper’: male students’ perspectives on condom use and concurrent sexual partnerships in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Maroyi Mulumeoderhwa --- , , South AfricaThis paper reports on fieldwork carried out in 2011 with aim to investigate young men’s perspectives about condoms use, concurrent sexual partnerships and sex in the context of HIV/AIDS. This study employed a qualitative approach to collect data from 28... -
An evaluation of the innovative potentials of a HIV pilot exploring medical pluralism in rural South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Christopher J. Burman --- , South AfricaThis article reflects on an internal evaluation undertaken to estimate the potentials of a community-university pilot project to be developed into a bonafide innovation that can be applied at scale. The focus of the community-university partnership has been to reduce... -
Navigating intimate sexual partnerships in an era of HIV: dimensions of couple relationship quality and satisfaction among adults in Eswatini and linkages to HIV risk
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Allison Ruark --- , , USA Edward C. Green --- , , USA Amy Nunn --- , USA Caitlin Kennedy --- , USA Alfred Adams --- , Netherlands Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane --- , Netherlands Pamela J. Surkan --- , USACouple relationship functioning impacts individual health and well-being, including HIV risk, but scant research has focused on emic understandings of relationship quality in African populations. We explored relationship quality and satisfaction in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) using data from 148 in-depth... -
Project Last Mile and the development of the Girl Champ brand in eSwatini: engaging the private sector to promote uptake of health services among adolescent girls and young women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Marie A. Brault --- Yale School of Public Health, USA Sarah Christie --- Yale School of Public Health, USA Sasha Aquino --- Olson Zaltman Associates, USA Abigail Rendin --- Olson Zaltman Associates, USA Amanda Manchia --- Project Last Mile, South Africa Leslie A. Curry --- Yale School of Public Health, USA Erika L. Linnander --- Yale School of Public Health, USAIn eSwatini and across sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are at significantly higher risk of HIV infection and poorer sexual and reproductive health (SRH) than their male counterparts. AGYW demonstrate low demand for SRH services, further contributing... -
Making sense of fidelity: young Africans’ cross-national and longitudinal representations of fidelity and infidelity in their HIV-related creative narratives, 1997–2014
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Robyn Singleton --- Banyan Communications, USA Manon Billaud --- Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, USA Haley McLeod --- Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, USA Georges Tiendrebeogo --- Laafi Consulting, Burkina Faso Fatim Dia --- Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, USA Chris Obong’o --- PATH, Kenya Siphiwe Nkambule-Vilakati --- Super Buddies Club, Swaziland Benjamin Mbakwem --- Community and Youth Development Initiatives, Nigeria Gaelle Sabben --- Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, USA Kate Winskell --- Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, USAMutual fidelity and partner reduction have been identified as key behavioural strategies to prevent HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly following recognition of the role that multiple concurrent sexual partnerships play in driving generalised HIV epidemics. We analysed social representations... -
“We will tell when we are ready”: perinatally HIV-infected adolescents and self-disclosure of their status in Eswatini
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Baliwe P. Dlamini --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Ntombifikile G. Mtshali --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaAccess to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has promoted a significant decrease in mortality of vertically HIV-infected children. As a result, there has been an increasing growth of this population that reaches adolescence. These adolescents face problems such as self-disclosure and the... -
A guiding framework for promoting public-private partnerships in research and innovation: Evidence from a developing country context
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Shem Sikombe --- Copperbelt University, Zambia Franco Muleya --- Copperbelt University, Zambia Joseph Phiri --- Copperbelt University, Zambia Sambo Zulu --- Leeds Beckett University, UK Peter L. Simasiku --- Copperbelt University, Zambia Mercy Situtu --- Kitwe and District Chamber of Commerce and Industry, ZambiaPublic-private partnerships have long existed in literature, primarily in the construction sector. However, there is a paucity of research on the research and innovation ecosystem. This research aims to develop a framework for promoting public-private partnerships in research and innovation...
