Casale, Marisa
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Qualitative health research
Despite ample evidence of the protective role of social support for mental and physical health, key gaps remain in our understanding of the pathways and mediating processes explaining these relationships in specific vulnerable populations. The author applies a theoretical framework developed by House et al. to qualitative data, collected with 24 ca...
Maughan-Brown, Brendan Beckett, Sean Kharsany, Ayesha B M Cawood, Cherie Khanyile, David Lewis, Lara Venkataramani, Atheendar George, Gavin
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AIDS care
Early antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation is essential, but linkage to care following community-based services is often poor, and inadequately understood. This study examined factors influencing linkage to care following home-based HIV-testing services (HBHTS) in a hyper-endemic setting in South Africa. HBHTS was offered to participants (N = 10...
Starik, Nicole Mbango, Oskar Kandali Bengsch, Susanne Göttert, Thomas Zeller, Ulrich
In this study, we investigate and compare the response patterns of small mammal communities to increasing land use intensity in two study areas: private farmland at the southern boundary of Etosha National Park and smallholder farmland in Tsumeb agricultural area. Species richness, community composition and a standardized capture index (RCI) are co...
Chiza Chikoti, Patrick Tembo, Mathias Peter Legg, James Rufini Shirima, Rudolph Mugerwa, Habibu Sseruwagi, Peter
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Insects
Bemisia tabaci is an important vector of cassava brown streak viruses and cassava mosaic begomoviruses, the causal agents of cassava brown streak disease and cassava mosaic disease (CMD), respectively. A study was carried out to determine the genetic variability of B. tabaci associated with cassava and the occurrence of CMD in Zambia in 2013 and 20...
Puech, Elysandre Bamford, Marion Porraz, Guillaume Val, Aurore Théry-Parisot, Isabelle
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Walker, Caroline Burtscher, Doris Myeni, John Kerschberger, Bernhard Schausberger, Bernadette Rusch, Barbara Dlamini, Nosipho Whitehouse, Katherine
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Human Resources for Health
BackgroundCommunity health workers (CHWs) are increasingly engaged to address human resource shortages and fill primary healthcare gaps. In Eswatini, a cadre of CHWs called Rural Health Motivators (RHM) was introduced in 1976 to respond to key public health challenges. However, the emergence of health needs, particularly HIV/TB, has been met with i...
Essack, Zaynab Lynch, Ingrid Kaunda, Chammah J Stephenson, Rob Darbes, Lynae van Rooyen, Heidi
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Culture, health & sexuality
Sexual agreements between same-sex practising men facilitate communication about health promotion activities, including HIV prevention. In African contexts, male couples negotiate their sexual agreements in relation to rigid cultural prescriptions about male power and privilege, intense hostility towards same-sex sexualities and persistent heteroge...
Wikramanayake, Radhika M Paschen-Wolff, Margaret M Matebeni, Zethu Reddy, Vasu Southey-Swartz, Ian Sandfort, Theo G M
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Archives of sexual behavior
Sexually transmitted infection (STI) in lesbian and bisexual women is a relatively unexplored topic, particularly for women from low- and middle-income countries. Despite perceptions that women who have sex with women (WSW) are at negligible risk of contracting STI, existing research demonstrates that WSW do become infected with STI. Given the oppo...
Collins, Benjamin Wojcieszak, Marine Nowell, April Hodgskiss, Tammy Ames, Christopher J. H.
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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Ostrich eggshell and gastropod shell beads provide important evidence for understanding how past peoples decorated and cultured their bodies and may also be used as proxy evidence for interpreting the nature and extent of past social networks. This study focuses on the ostrich eggshell and gastropod shell bead assemblages from the terminal Pleistoc...
Paschen-Wolff, Margaret M Reddy, Vasu Matebeni, Zethu Southey-Swartz, Ian Sandfort, Theodorus
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Culture, health & sexuality
Women who have sex with women in Southern Africa, where HIV prevalence is high, are often presumed to have minimal risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV despite research documenting female-to-female transmission. This study examined the demographic and social factors contributing to female-to-female STI/HIV transmission knowledge a...
