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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
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
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
What Do People Actually Learn from Public Health Campaigns? Incorrect Inferences About Male Circumcision and Female HIV Infection Risk Among Men and Women in Malawi

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Godlonton, Susie; Thornton, Rebecca; Venkataramani, Atheendar Date: 28 May 2015 Qualitative studies and polling data from sub-Saharan Africa indicate that many individuals may mistakenly believe that male circumcision directly protects women from contracting HIV. This study examines whether individuals who learn that ... Read more
What do people actually learn from public health education campaigns? Incorrect inferences about male circumcision and female HIV infection risk in a cluster randomized trial in Malawi

Author: Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Godlonton, Susan; Thornton, Rebecca; Venkataramani, Atheendar Date: 28 May 2015 Objective: To examine whether individuals who learn that voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) partially reduces female-to-male HIV transmission erroneously infer a reduction in male-to-female HIV transmission risk. Design: Cluster ... Read more
Who is taking up voluntary medical male circumcision? Early evidence from Tanzania

Author: Gummerson, Elizabeth ; Maughan-Brown, Brendan ; Venkataramani, Atheendar Date: 28 May 2015 We examined the impacts of nationwide voluntary medical male circumcision efforts in Tanzania. Using Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data, we found that circumcision rates increased from 37 to 47% in regions targeted by the programme. ... Read more
Who is taking up voluntary medical male circumcision?Early Evidence from Tanzania

Author: Gummerson, Elizabeth ; Maughan-Brown, Brendan ; Venkataramani, Atheendar Date: 2013 We examined the impacts of nationwide voluntary medical male circumcision efforts in Tanzania. Using Demographic and Health Surveys data, we found that circumcision rates increased from 37% to 47% in regions targeted by the program. Those who ... Read more

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