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Creating a world free from violence: the Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention trial
2015New studies have shown that carefully designed interventions, which focus on transforming gender norms and work at multiple levels, can significantly reduce women’s experience of violence within one to two years.DocumentClaiming the human right to health for women who have sex with women through South Africa’s national strategic plans on HIV and STIs
2015Women who have sex with women (WSW), whether or not they identify as lesbian or bisexual, have been under-analysed in high income countries and low and middle income countries for a range of sexual and reproductive health concerns including risk of acquiring HIV. Rarely are WSW highlighted for targeted public health interventions or included in national STI or HIV/AIDS policies.DocumentReflections on femininity, love and HIV: the story of 4Play: Sex Tips for Girls
Center for Communication Programs, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 20134Play: Sex Tips for Girls was a television drama that brought a rare touch of glamour and a distinctly feminine sensibility to the HIV communication genre in South Africa.DocumentEvaluation of Season Two of the television drama series, Intersexions
2015Intersexions I was a multi-award winning series, receiving eleven South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTA), the Screen Excellence Award for best drama, the AfricommNet award for best mass media and the internationally acclaimed Peabody Award.DocumentHIV-related discrimination among grade six Students in nine Southern African countries
PLoS ONE, 2014HIV-related stigmatisation and discrimination by young children towards their peers have important consequences at the individual level and for our response to the epidemic, yet research on this area is limited.DocumentReducing the overall HIV-burden in South Africa: is ‘reviving ABC’ an appropriate fit for a complex, adaptive epidemiological HIV landscape?
2015This journal article questions the recommendations to ‘revive ABC (abstain, be faithful, condomise)’ as a mechanism to ‘educate’ people in South Africa about HIV prevention as the South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey, 2012, suggests.DocumentAIDS and society in South Africa: building a community of practice
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006The first 25 years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic have been largely focused on bio-medical research. Gradually, social science researchers, donors, policymakers and activists have recognised that HIV/AIDS is more than simply a health issue and that the pandemic has developmental, governance and security implications.DocumentHIV/AIDS and human security in South Africa
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), based at the University of Cape Town, held a two-day policy seminar on June 2006. The seminar, on the theme, “HIV/AIDS and Human Security in South Africa” , drew on knowledge and expertise on the scope and response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and southern Africa.OrganisationSouth African Health Review / Health Systems Trust
The South African Health Review (SAHR) provides both current and longer-term analysis and assessment of health policy developments and their implementation in South Africa, and monitors changes and chDocumentThe HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa: convergence with tuberculosis, socioecological vulnerability, and climate change patterns
South African Medical Journal, 2014This journal article argues that people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) have weakened physiological responses and are immunologically vulnerable to pathogens and stressors in their environment, putting them at a health disadvantage in climate-based rising temperatures, water scarcity, air pollution, potential water- and vector-borne disease outbreaks, and habitat redistributions.Pages