Sexual behavior, pregnancy, and schooling among young people in urban South Africa

L Marteleto, D Lam, V Ranchhod - Studies in family planning, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines transitions in schooling, sexual activity, and pregnancy among
adolescents and young adults in urban South Africa. Data are analyzed from the Cape Area …

Household and community income, economic shocks and risky sexual behavior of young adults: evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002 and 2005

T Dinkelman, D Lam, M Leibbrandt - Aids, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To describe recent trends in adolescent sexual behavior in Cape Town, South
Africa, and to determine whether household and community poverty and negative economic …

Effect of early sexual debut on high school completion in South Africa

AV Bengesai, HTA Khan, R Dube - Journal of biosocial science, 2018 - cambridge.org
Early sexual debut is of major concern because it is a correlate for health and economic
shocks experienced in adulthood. In South Africa, this concern has provided impetus for …

[PDF][PDF] Assessment of HIV knowledge among university students using the HIV-KQ-18 scale: A cross-sectional study

P Talwar, MFB Abd Rahman - South East Asia Journal of Public …, 2015 - academia.edu
Globally, the spread of HIV/AIDS has become a major health concern due to its pandemic
proportions. Although people of any age are vulnerable to HIV, the younger populace are …

Disabled persons' knowledge of HIV prevention and access to health care prevention services in South Africa

AH Eide, C Schür, C Ranchod, P Rohleder, L Swartz… - AIDS care, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The main research question in this article is how access to information about HIV/AIDS and
level of HIV/AIDS prevention related knowledge are distributed among disabled people, and …

A network-level explanation for the differences in HIV prevalence in South Africa's racial groups

C Kenyon, S Dlamini, A Boulle, RG White… - African Journal of AIDS …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Analyses of individual-level risk factors have not been able to adequately explain why HIV
has spread so extensively in southern Africa and why this has occurred especially within …

An HIV/AIDS knowledge scale for adolescents: item response theory analyses based on data from a study in South Africa and Tanzania

LE Aarø, K Breivik, KI Klepp, S Kaaya… - Health education …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
A 14-item human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome knowledge
scale was used among school students in 80 schools in 3 sites in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cape …

An integrated model of HIV/AIDS testing behaviour in the construction industry

PA Bowen, R Govender, PJ Edwards… - Construction …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The South African construction industry is one of the economic sectors most adversely
affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Prevalence rates exceed those of most other sectors …

An investigation into the curriculum ideology that foregrounds the presentation of HIV/AIDS content in selected South Africa Life Sciences textbooks

L Mnguni - International Journal of STEM Education, 2019 - Springer
Background Research suggests that the South African school curriculum, including subjects
such as Life Sciences, may be failing to address students' socio-scientific challenges such …

The Integration of HIV and AIDS as a Socio-scientific Issue in the Life Sciences Curriculum

E Wolff, L Mnguni - African Journal of Research in Mathematics …, 2015 - journals.co.za
The potential of science to transform lives has been highlighted by a number of scholars.
This means that critical socio-scientific issues (SSIs) must be integrated into science …