Agent based modelling of blood borne viruses: a scoping review

S Ale, E Hunter, JD Kelleher - BMC infectious diseases, 2024 - Springer
Background The models that historically have been used to model infectious disease
outbreaks are equation-based and statistical models. However, these models do not capture …

Health care providers' challenges to high-quality HIV care and antiretroviral treatment retention in rural South Africa

A Julien, S Anthierens, A Van Rie… - Qualitative health …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Provision of high-quality HIV care is challenging, especially in rural primary care clinics in
high HIV burden settings. We aimed to better understand the main challenges to quality HIV …

Mapping factors influencing initiation of antiretroviral treatment among adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol

PG Likoti, D Kuupiel, N Khuzwayo - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Since the Start Free, Stay Free, and AIDS-Free launch, UNAIDS targets
intended to promote interventions to prevent HIV transmission and promote access to ART …

The impact of same-day antiretroviral therapy initiation on retention in care and clinical outcomes at four eThekwini clinics, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

SM Govere, C Kalinda, MJ Chimbari - BMC Health Services Research, 2023 - Springer
Background Same-day initiation (SDI) of antiretroviral therapy (ART) increases ART uptake,
however retention in care after ART initiation remains a challenge. Public health behaviours …

“There is no fear in me… well, that little fear is there”: dualistic views towards HIV testing among South African adolescent girls and young women

Z Duby, K Jonas, TMC Appollis… - African Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In spite of the high HIV burden and high prevalence and incidence of HIV infection among
adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa, uptake of HIV testing in this …

Effect of perceived HIV risk on initiation of antiretroviral therapy during the universal test and treat era in South Africa

SM Govere, S Galagan, B Tlou… - BMC infectious …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background South Africa has not achieved the 90–90–90 goals, in part due to low
rates of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation among those aware of their HIV status …

Factors influencing rapid antiretroviral therapy initiation at four eThekwini clinics, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

SM Govere, C Kalinda, MJ Chimbari - AIDS and Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Timely uptake of Antiretroviral therapy considerably improves the health of people living with
the Human Immunodeficiency virus. We conducted a cross-sectional study of newly HIV …

Simulating the end of AIDS in New York: using participatory dynamic modeling to improve implementation of the ending the epidemic initiative

EG Martin, RH MacDonald, DE Gordon… - Public Health …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives In 2014, the governor of New York announced the Ending the Epidemic (ETE)
plan to reduce annual new HIV infections from 3000 to 750, achieve a first-ever decrease in …

A novel modelling framework to simulate the effects of HIV stigma on HIV transmission dynamics

D Bisanzio, ST Roberts, RD Stelmach, KN McClellan… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Introduction HIV remains a global public health challenge, with social determinants such as
stigma influencing transmission dynamics, access to testing, and treatment. HIV stigma …

Mixed-method estimation of population-level HIV viral suppression rate in the Western Cape, South Africa

E Mukonda, NY Hsiao, L Vojnov, L Myer… - BMJ Global Health, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction There are few population-wide data on viral suppression (VS) that can be used
to monitor programmatic targets in sub-Saharan Africa. We describe how routinely collected …