SynthesisCurrent HIV research2013
Sexual risk reduction interventions for HIV prevention among South African youth: a meta-analytic review.
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- Barriers and facilitators to HIV prevention interventions for reducing risky sexual behavior among youth worldwide: a systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Pooled it
- An integrated model of condom use in Sub-Saharan African youth: A meta-analysis.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2018Pooled it
- Behaviour change techniques in brief interventions to prevent HIV, STI and unintended pregnancies: A systematic review.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- School-based sexual health education interventions to prevent STI/HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
- A synthesis of meta-analytic evidence of behavioral interventions to reduce HIV/STIs.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2016Pooled it
- Evaluating the effects of a multi-level intervention on young women's contraceptive use: sexual and reproductive health results of a cluster-randomised factorial-design study in Tshwane, South Africa.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Trial
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- Effects of PREPARE, a Multi-component, School-Based HIV and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevention Programme on Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviour and IPV: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial.AIDS and behavior · 2016Trial
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- Evidence and gap map report: Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) interventions for strengthening HIV prevention and research among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).Campbell systematic reviews · 2023Article
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- Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Youth in Soweto, South Africa During the COVID-19 National Lockdown.Sexual medicine · 2022Article
- Effectiveness of a pre-adolescent inter-generational intervention to address HIV and obesity in South Africa, using a pretest-posttest design.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Process evaluation of a pre-adolescent transdisciplinary health intervention for inter-generational outcomes.PloS one · 2021Article
- Sexual knowledge and practice of adolescent learners in a rural South African school.African health sciences · 2020Article
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- Health Education Training Embedded in a Microfinance Platform Associated with Safer Sexual Behavior in Haitian Women.AIDS and behavior · 2019Article
- Impact of the adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health strategy on service utilisation and health outcomes in Zimbabwe.PloS one · 2019Article
- Vulnerabilities at First Sex and Their Association With Lifetime Gender-Based Violence and HIV Prevalence Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Engaged in Sex Work, Transactional Sex, and Casual Sex in Kenya.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo examine the efficacy of sexual risk reduction interventions among South African youth.
methodsElectronic databases were searched to identify studies published between 2007 and early 2013. Studies were eligible if they (1) targeted youth age 9-26, (2) evaluated sexual risk reduction interventions and (3) reported at least one behavioral outcome. Independent raters coded study characteristics, and intervention content. Weighted mean effect sizes were calculated; positive effect sizes indicated less sexual risk behavior and incident STIs.
resultsTen studies (k = 11; N = 22,788; 54% female; 79% Black-African) were included. Compared to controls, interventions were successful at delaying sexual intercourse and, among sexually active youth, at increasing condom use. A single study found reductions in the incidence of herpes simplex virus-2, but not HIV.
conclusionsImplementing behavioral interventions to delay sexual debut and improve condom use can help to reduce the transmission of HIV among South African youth.
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