Samvedana Plus Implementation Design

This comprehensive report outlines the entire monitoring and evaluation plan for the Samvedana Plus programme.

Sexual Risk Behavior, Alcohol Use, and Social Media Use Among Secondary School Students in Informal Settlements in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, South Africa

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South Africa’s HIV prevalence among young people remains among the highest in the world. A cross-sectional study was carried out in 2012 to estimate prevalences of sexual risk behaviour and hazardous alcohol use (HAU) (via the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test) as well as to investigate potential associations between these outcomes and social media use.

Declines in violence and police arrest among female sex workers in Karnataka state, south India, following a comprehensive HIV prevention programme

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Female sex workers (FSWs) frequently experience violence, harassment and arrest by the police or their clients, but there is little evidence as to the impact that such factors may have on HIV risk or whether community interventions could mitigate this impact.

Influences on visit retention in clinical trials: Insights from qualitative research during the VOICE trial in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Researchers conducted a qualitative study of the social contextual factors that influenced adherence to PrEP in the VOICE trial.

'I heard about this study on the radio': using community radio to strengthen Good Participatory Practice in HIV prevention trials

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Community radio is a potent tool for raising awareness and local knowledge about medical research and, in addition to other methodologies, can be used to promote recruitment into clinical trials.

Circumstances, experiences and processes surrounding women's entry into sex work in India

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Evidence suggests that, in India, the early stages of a woman's career as a sex worker may be an important period to target for HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention.

The cost and cost-effectiveness of gender-responsive interventions for HIV: a systematic review

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STRIVE researchers present a systematic review of the costs and cost-effectiveness of gender-responsive HIV interventions.

Wanawake Na Maisha curriculum

The MAISHA study aimed to design and implement a cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the impact of participatory gender training for women in existing microfinance loan groups on participants’ experience of physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence as well as other outcomes such as gender empowerment, economic and health-related outcomes. 

HIV prevention for young South African women: Lessons from Swa-Koteka - Audrey Pettifor

In this webinar Audrey Pettifor presents results from a cash transfer study in rural South Africa.

A community-based qualitative study to explore the experience and understandings of intimate partner violence among women in sex work and their intimate partners in north Karnataka, India

This qualitative community-based research is valuable for better understanding the mechanisms by which multi-levelled factors may be increasing vulnerability to intimate partner violence.

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