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Attitudes towards people with HIV/AIDS: stigma and its determinants amongst young adults in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 2006 HIV/AIDS-related stigma is conceptualised as multi-dimensional, and indices are designed to measure its different dimensions. Findings show that it is uncommon for young adults to have high levels of negative behavioural intentions towards ... Read more
Changes in HIV-related stigma among young adults in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 2009 Background: Stigma is a recognised problem for effective prevention, treatment and care of HIV/AIDS.? However, few studies have measured changes in the magnitude and character of stigma over time. This paper provides the first quantitative ... Read more c b n d
Concurrent sexual partnerships among individuals on HAART in South Africa: an opportunity for HIV prevention

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan ; Venkataramani, Atheendar S ; Mah, Timothy L Date: 2009 Concurrent sexual partnerships, a common form of sexual partnering in much of southern Africa, play an important role in HIV transmission dynamics. This study examines the prevalence of concurrency and condom use among the general population ... Read more c b n d
Concurrent sexual partnerships among young adults in Cape Town, South Africa: How is concurrency changing?

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 28 May 2015 BACKGROUND: The current debate about the role of concurrent sexual partnerships in the spread of HIV is influenced by limited or weak empirical data on concurrency. There is still uncertainty about the most basic statistics and little is known ... Read more
Concurrent sexual partnerships and sexually transmitted diseases among African men in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 28 May 2015 Background: Most studies that assess the relationship between concurrent sexual partnerships and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) use dichotomous measures of whether concurrency was reported or not. However, different forms of concurrency ... Read more
A cut above the rest: Traditional Male Circumcision and HIV Risk Among Xhosa men in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan ; Venkataramani, Atheendar S ; Nattrass, Nicoli ; Seekings, Jeremy ; Whiteside, Alan W Date: 2011 Randomized clinical trials have shown that medical male circumcision substantially reduces the risk of contracting HIV. However, relatively little is known about the relationship between traditional male circumcision and HIV risk. This article ... Read more
Different dimensions of HIV-related stigma may have opposite effects on HIV testing: Evidence among young men and women in South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Nyblade, Laura Date: 28 May 2015 Although HIV-related stigma in general is known to deter HIV-testing, the extent to which different dimensions of stigma independently influence testing behaviour is poorly understood. We used data on young black men (n = 553) and women (n = ... Read more
Disability grants and individual and household welfare among HAART patients in South Africa

Author: Venkataramani, Atheendar ; Maughan-Brown, Brendan ; Nattrass, Nicoli ; Ruger, Jennifer Date: 2009 Objective: To examine whether the loss of disability grants creates perverse incentives to forego treatment and negatively impacts health and economic welfare among individuals on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in South Africa. ... Read more c b n d
Effects of household shocks and poverty on the timing of traditional male circumcision and HIV risk in South Africa

Author: Venkataramani, Atheendar; Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 28 May 2015 Poverty may influence HIV risk by increasing vulnerability to economic shocks and thereby preventing key health investments. We explored this by examining the relationship between household shocks and the timing of traditional male circumcision, ... Read more
Effects of household shocks and poverty on the timing of traditional male circumcision and HIV risk in South Africa

Author: Venkataramani, Atheendar; Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 28 May 2015 Poverty may influence HIV risk by increasing vulnerability to economic shocks and thereby preventing key health investments. We explored this possibility by examining the relationship between household shocks and the timing of traditional ... Read more
Experiences and perceptions of HIV/AIDS-related stigma amongst people on antiretroviral treatment in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 2007 HIV/AIDS-related stigma is a recognised problem for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) yet little research on experiences of stigma has been conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, the epicentre of the disease.? This paper employs quantitative ... Read more c b n d
Handwashing behavior and habit formation in the household: evidence from the pilot randomized evaluation of HOPE SOAP© in South Africa

Author: Sellman, Abigail Date: 2018 Handwashing with soap at critical times is a simple and effective way to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, such as diarrhea and acute respiratory infection, which are major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. ... Read more
Incorrect beliefs about male circumcision and male-to-female HIV transmission risk in South Africa: Implications for prevention

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Venkataramani, Atheendar Date: 28 May 2015 Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have shown that medical male circumcision (MC) substantially reduces the risk of female-to-male HIV transmission.1 Driven by this evidence base, a growing number of countries have adopted large-scale MC ... Read more
Increasing access to HIV testing: Impacts on equity of coverage and uptake from a national campaign in South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Lloyd, Neil; Bor, Jacob; Venkataramani, Atheendar Date: 28 May 2015 Background: HIV counselling and testing (HCT) is a critical component of HIV prevention and treatment efforts. Between April 2010 and June 2011 South Africa ran an ambitious, multi-sector, campaign aiming to test 15 million people nationwide. ... Read more
Inequality and Diversity in Cape Town: An Introduction and User's Guide to the 2005 Cape Area Study

Author: Seekings, Jeremy ; Jooste, Tracy ; Langer, Mirah ; Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 2005 The 2005 Cape Area Study comprises a survey of aspects of diversity and inequality in the South African city of Cape Town. The survey was designed as both part of an ongoing study of Cape Town (that includes a series of surveys) and part of ... Read more c b n d
Learning that circumcision is protective against HIV: Risk compensation among men and women in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Venkataramani, Atheendar Date: 19 Jul 2012 Objectives: We examined whether knowledge of the HIV-protective benefits of male circumcision (MC) led to risk compensating behavior in a traditionally circumcising population in South Africa. We extend the current literature by examining ... Read more
Male circumcision and sexual risk behaviors may contribute to considerable ethnic disparities in HIV prevalence in Kenya: an ecological analysis

Author: Kenyon, Chris Richard ; Vu, Lung ; Menten, Joris ; Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 2014 BACKGROUND: HIV prevalence varies between 0.8 and 20.2% in Kenya's various ethnic groups. The reasons underlying these variations have not been evaluated before. METHODS: We used data from seven national surveys spanning the period 1989 to ... Read more c b
Measuring HIV/AIDS Stigma

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 2004 This paper develops indices to measure HIV/AIDS stigma and explores potential determinants of this stigma. Indices are designed to measure the different dimensions of HIV/AIDS stigma. Findings show that levels of stigma vary depending on the ... Read more
A multidimensional quantitative evaluation of HIV/AIDS-related stigma in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 2008 This study arose out of a concern that previous South African national surveys may have underestimated the levels of HIV-related stigma because of limitations in the questions employed. It thus provides a more comprehensive evaluation of the ... Read more
Quantifying Stigma in the Adult Population of Cape Town

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan Date: 2006 This paper builds on previous analyses of HIV/AIDS-related stigma among young adults (aged 15-23) in the Cape Metropolitan Area by using a representative sample of adults from the same area. It compares the findings from both surveys, and ... Read more c b n d