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    HIV Prevalence and Risk Behaviours Among Foreign Migrant Women Residing in Cape Town, South Africa

    HIV prevalence and risk behaviour among foreign migrants in South Africa has not been explored. This paper describes the effectiveness of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to recruit foreign migrant women resid...

    Loraine Townsend, Maggie Giorgio, Yanga Zembe, Mireille Cheyip… in AIDS and Behavior (2014)

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    HIV Prevalence and Risk Factors Among Male Foreign Migrants in Cape Town, South Africa

    While migration has been shown to be a risk factor for HIV, variation in HIV prevalence by subgroups of migrants needs further exploration. This paper documents the HIV prevalence and key characteristics among...

    Margaret Giorgio, Loraine Townsend, Yanga Zembe, Mireille Cheyip… in AIDS and Behavior (2017)

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    Timing and Predictors of Initiation on Antiretroviral Therapy Among Newly-Diagnosed HIV-Infected Persons in South Africa

    Despite a decade of advancing HIV/AIDS treatment policy in South Africa, 20% of people living with HIV (PLHIV) eligible for antiretroviral treatment (ART) remain untreated. To inform universal test and treat (...

    Anna Larsen, Mireille Cheyip, Abraham Tesfay, Peter Vranken… in AIDS and Behavior (2019)

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    What will it take for the Global Plan priority countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV?

    The 2016 ‘Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free’ global agenda, builds on the 2011-2015 ‘Global Plan’. It prioritises 22 countries where 90% of the world’s HIV-positive pregnant women live and aims to eliminate ver...

    Ameena E. Goga, Thu-Ha Dinh, Shaffiq Essajee, Witness Chirinda… in BMC Infectious Diseases (2019)

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    Longitudinal adherence to maternal antiretroviral therapy and infant Nevirapine prophylaxis from 6 weeks to 18 months postpartum amongst a cohort of mothers and infants in South Africa

    Despite improved policies to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT), adherence to maternal antiretroviral therapy (ART) and infant Nevirapine prophylaxis (NVP) is low in South Africa. We describe ART ...

    Anna Larsen, Vuyolwethu Magasana, Thu-Ha Dinh, Nobubelo Ngandu… in BMC Infectious Diseases (2019)

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    Examining the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors with Knowledge of HIV-Positive Status and Antiretroviral Therapy Exposure Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Living with HIV in South Africa

    Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living with HIV have poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) outcomes. We examined the relationship between psychosocial factors with knowledge of HIV-positive status and anti...

    Janan J. Dietrich, Kim Jonas, Mireille Cheyip… in AIDS and Behavior (2023)

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    Linkage to HIV Care and Early Retention in Care Rates in the Universal Test-and-Treat Era: A Population-based Prospective Study in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    HIV linkage, and retention are key weaknesses in South Africa’s national antiretroviral therapy (ART) program, with the greatest loss of patients in the HIV treatment pathway occurring before ART initiation. T...

    Edward Nicol, Wisdom Basera, Ferdinand C Mukumbang, Mireille Cheyip… in AIDS and Behavior (2023)

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