Trial reportEuropean journal of public health2014
Randomized community-level HIV prevention intervention trial for men who drink in South African alcohol-serving venues.
Trial report in European journal of public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Health-promotion interventions targeting multiple behaviors: A meta-analytic review of general and behavior-specific processes of change.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Some Interventions to Shift Meta-Norms Are Effective for Changing Behaviors in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Rapid Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Complex solutions for a complex problem: A meta-analysis of the efficacy of multiple-behavior interventions on change in outcomes related to HIV.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2021Pooled it
- Structural and community-level interventions for increasing condom use to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Alcohol use disorder, contexts of alcohol use, and the risk of HIV transmission among South African male patrons of shebeens.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2014Trial
- Alcohol use and its association with HIV risk behaviors among a cohort of patients attending HIV clinical care in Tanzania, Kenya, and Namibia.AIDS care · 2014Trial
- Peer network approaches for improving HIV testing, prevention and care utilisation among men in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Alcohol Use and the Risk of Communicable Diseases.Nutrients · 2021Review
- The socioeconomic profile of alcohol-attributable mortality in South Africa: a modelling study.BMC medicine · 2018Article
- Alcohol use and sexual risk behaviour among men and women in inner-city Johannesburg, South Africa.BMC public health · 2017Article
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- Alcohol Consumption and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Persons Attending Alcohol Consumption Venues in Gaborone, Botswana.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2016Article
- Reducing HIV Risks in the Places Where People Drink: Prevention Interventions in Alcohol Venues.AIDS and behavior · 2016Review
- HIV testing is associated with increased knowledge and reductions in sexual risk behaviours among men in Cape Town, South Africa.African journal of AIDS research : AJAR · 2013Article
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundSouth African alcohol-serving establishments (i.e., shebeens) offer unique opportunities to reduce HIV risks among men who drink. PURPOSE: To test an individual- and a social structural-level HIV prevention intervention for men who drink in shebeens.
methodsTwelve matched pairs of township neighbourhoods were randomized to receive either (i) an HIV prevention intervention (guided by Social Action Theory) to reduce sexual risk and increase risk reduction communication in social networks, or (ii) an attention-matched control intervention that focused on the prevention of relationship violence. At the individual level, the interventions delivered skills building workshops focused on sexual risk reduction. At the social structural level, the intervention aimed to increase conversations about safer sex among men in the shebeens, distributed small media and implemented community educational events. Individual-level outcomes were assessed by following the workshop cohorts for 1 year (N = 984), and community-level outcomes were examined through cross-sectional community surveys conducted for 1 year in the shebeens (N = 9,678).
resultsMen in the HIV prevention workshops demonstrated greater condom use, more HIV prevention-oriented conversations and greater perceptions of safer sex norms than men in the comparison workshops. Changes at the community level demonstrated significant differences in condom use, although the pattern was not consistent over time.
conclusionsMulti-level interventions that target men who drink in South African shebeens may help reduce risks for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
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