South Africa and HIV
Check the most recent online additions, updated daily.
Content from selected partners can be found by following the relevant links in the central panel below - or check out our editor's selection of the best sector specific information from other websites.
- HINARI
Documents from the Hinari service are available online and are either free of charge or available at reduced rates to registered users in developing countries How to access the full text of articles
- Male sex work in Southern and Eastern Africa
- P. Boyce; G. Isaacs / Oxfam, 2011
- This research presented explored the social contexts, life experiences, vulnerabilities and sexual risks experienced by men who sell sex in Southern and Eastern Africa, with a focus on five countries; Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Uga...
- South African women who experience intimate partner violence have increased incidence of HIV infection
- R.K. Jewkes; K. Dunkle; M. Nduna / The Lancet, 2010
- Research linking gender inequity and gender-based violence to HIV is limited. This paper assess whether intimate partner violence (IPV) and relationship power inequity increase risk of incident HIV infection in South African women. ...
- Experiences from sexual and reproductive health, HIV and AIDS
- Knowledge Services, IDS, 2009
- The true test of the effectiveness of health and development research is whether people use it – for decision-making, influencing, referencing, or most importantly, to bring about change. Development actors are paying...
- Sexual health and HIV: New reports highlight how research can make an impact
- Health Research Policy and Systems, 2011
- As part of the Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Policy (SHHEP) project researchers and communications experts came together to share and analyse the strategies they used to influence policy. This publication is a supplement of the ...
- Dissemination of information and sexual behaviour among circumcised and uncircumcised men in rural Malawi
- S. Godlonton; A. Munthali; R. Thornton / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2010
- Despite the substantial effort in the past decade by multi-national organizations, governments and non- governmental organization, HIV/AIDS continues to spread (USAID 2005). Recently, attention has been placed on male circumcision as ...
- Incorporating flexibilities of TRIPS to ensure better access to HIV treatment
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2011
- This policy brief describes how the flexibilities contained in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and reaffirmed by the Doha Declaration provide important opportunities for World Trade Organiza...
- Why has the South African TB programme failed?: identifying new control strategies
- R. Wood; S.D. Lawn; S. Johnstone-Robertson; L.G. Bekker / South African Medical Journal, 2011
- This article looks at the reasons for the failure of South Africa’s current tuberculosis (TB) control programme by looking at the major drivers of the TB epidemic. The authors also identify new control strategies that they argue...
- Global lessons learned around HIV and AIDS
- id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Twenty-five years of knowingly living with HIV, the global community is still falling behind the virus in its alarming, complex and often hidden progress. Despite many diverse and creative successes in committed peoples’ respons...
- Studies on health and well-being among people aged 50 years and over in eight countries in Africa and Asia
- Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, 2010
- Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health...
- Assessing the prevalence and consequences of tuberculosis in South Africa
- N. R. Gandhi; A. Moll; A.W. Sturm / The Lancet, 2006
- Tuberculosis is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with HIV-1 infection in sub-Saharan Africa. HIV greatly increases the risk of active tuberculosis disease and about 80 per cent of patients presenting wit...




