ReviewCurrent HIV/AIDS reports2015
A Political and Social History of HIV in South Africa.
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- The Social, Behavioral, and Ethical Modalities of COVID-19 on HIV Care in South Africa: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Impact of HIV on Clinical Presentation, Microbiological and Laboratory Findings, and Outcome.Journal of intensive care medicine · 2025Observational
- Ubuntu Is a Critical Component in the Fight against Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Tuberculosis Stigma: Nursing Students' Perceptions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The fall-And rise-In hospital-based care for people with HIV in South Africa: 2004-2017.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- TB programme stakeholder views on lessons from the COVID-19 response in South Africa.Public health action · 2023Article
- Addressing coloniality of power to improve HIV care in South Africa and other LMIC.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2023Article
- How the COVID-19 Pandemic Alters the Landscapes of the HIV and Tuberculosis Epidemics in South Africa: A Case Study and Future Directions.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- "A NOWADAYS DISEASE": HIV/AIDS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN A RURAL SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNITY.AJS; American journal of sociology · 2021Article
- 'You're only there on the phone'? A qualitative exploration of community, affect and agential capacity in HIV self-testing using a smartphone app.Sociology of health & illness · 2021Article
- Conspiracy theories in the era of COVID-19: A tale of two pandemics.International journal of clinical practice · 2021Article
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- Conspiracy Beliefs Are Associated with Lower Knowledge and Higher Anxiety Levels Regarding COVID-19 among Students at the University of Jordan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Moving towards elimination: findings from the South Africa prevention of mother to child transmission evaluation (SAPMTCTE).BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Needs must: living donor liver transplantation from an HIV-positive mother to her HIV-negative child in Johannesburg, South Africa.Journal of medical ethics · 2019Article
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- A realist approach to eliciting the initial programme theory of the antiretroviral treatment adherence club intervention in the Western Cape Province, South Africa.BMC medical research methodology · 2018Article
- Addressing antiretroviral therapy-related diagnostic coverage gaps across South Africa using a programmatic approach.African journal of laboratory medicine · 2018Article
- Do countries rely on the World Health Organization for translating research findings into clinical guidelines? A case study.Globalization and health · 2016Article
- Legal knowledge, needs, and assistance seeking among HIV positive and negative women in Umlazi, South Africa.BMC international health and human rights · 2016Article
- Barriers to adherence to antiretroviral treatment in a regional hospital in Vredenburg, Western Cape, South Africa.Southern African journal of HIV medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
For the past 25 years, South Africa has had to deal with the inexorable and monumental rise of HIV. From one or two isolated cases, in the late 1980s, South Africa now has an estimated 6.4 million people infected with HIV, with high rates of concomitant tuberculosis, which will profoundly affect the country for decades to come. For nearly 10 years, the South African government's response to the HIV epidemic was described as denialist, which was estimated to have resulted in the deaths of 330,000 people because lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) was not provided (Chigwedere et al. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 49:410-15, 2008; Heywood 2004). However, the story of the HIV and AIDS response in South Africa over the past 5 years is one of great progress after almost a decade of complex and tragic denialism that united civil society in a way not seen since the opposition to apartheid. Today, South Africa can boast of close to 3 million people on ART, by far the largest number in the world. Prevention efforts appear to be yielding results but there continues to be large numbers of new infections, with a profound peak in incidence in young women aged 15 to 24 years. In addition, infections occur across the gender spectrum in older age groups. As a result of the massive increase in access to ART after 2004 and particularly after 2008 as political will towards the HIV ART programme improved, there has been a marked increase in life expectancy, from 56 to 61 years in the period 2009-2012 alone; the aggressive expansion of the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) to HIV-positive pregnant women has been accompanied by dramatic decrease in HIV transmission to infants; and a 25 % decrease in child and infant mortality rates in the period 2009-2012. This progress in access is significantly due to a civil society movement that was prepared to pose a rights-based challenge to a governing party in denial and to brave health officials, politicians and clinicians working in a hostile system to bring about change.
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