Gender and racial disparitiesHIV prevalenceSouth AfricaBackgroundIn South Africa, persistence of the HIV epidemic and associated gender and racial disparities is a major concern after more than 20?years of democratic dispensation and efforts to create a more healthy and equal society. This paper ...
The article estimates the prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of young people in South Africa who have experienced parental death. It examines the associations between parental death and young people's HIV status and sexual behaviors. The article shows that more than one quarter of young So...
BACKGROUND: Although the role of mobile populations in the spread of HIV has been documented in several countries, there are few data on HIV among truck drivers in South Africa and the sex workers with whom they interact. GOAL: To determine HIV prevalence and risk behavior in a sample of ...
A problem with ELISA is that it produces false-positive results in people who have been exposed to parasitic diseases such as malaria; that is particularly troublesome in Africa, where both AIDS and malaria are rampant. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which screen for viral RNA and ...
Eswatini, Lesotho, and South Africa. In 2023, Eswatini had the highest prevalence of HIV with a rate of around 25 percent. Other countries, such as Zimbabwe, have significantly decreased their HIV prevalence. Community-based HIV services are considered crucial to the prevention and treatment of...
barriers to either accessing or adhering to HIV treatment including lack of resources to attend to facilities and food insecurity. We describe the interactions between managing household income and ART adherence for PLHIV in low-income urban and semi-urban settings in the Western Cape, South Africa...
However, to date, limited epidemiological data exist on the role of transactional sex in increasing HIV acquisition, especially among young women in sub-Saharan Africa. Our paper presents data on the prevalence of self-reported engagement in transactional sex and explores whether transactional sex is...
摘要: Studies the increasing prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in a rural district in South Africa from 1992 through 1995. Methodology used in the study; Estimation of the prevalence of infection in the rural district; Results of the study....
This study evaluated the prevalence and correlates of posttraumatic stress in a sample of HIV lay counsellors in South Africa. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 117 HIV lay counsellors in 71 health facilities in one health district (Nkangala) in Mpumalanga province in South Africa. ...
It is also possible that the lower prevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the first wave was due to impaired humoral immunity in PLWH, which could have resulted in a lack of specific antibody production, which in turn could have led to negative results in the test used in this study...