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Recent Journal Articles
- Associations between depressive symptoms, socio-economic factors, traumatic exposure and recent intimate partner violence experiences among women in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study. BMC Women’s Health 2022;22:248. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01796-w.
- A qualitative study on experiences of HIV vaccine trial participants in a phase i/II double-blinded, randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial in Tanzania: lessons for COVID-19 vaccine testing. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology. 2021:210-7.
- The International Sexual Health And Reproductive Health Survey (I-SHARE-1): A Multi-Country Analysis of Adults from 30 Countries Prior to and During the Initial COVID-19 Wave. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Feb 7:ciac102. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciac102. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35136960.
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness, attitudes and uptake willingness among young people: gender differences and associated factors in two South African districts. Global Health Action. 2021 Jan 1;14(1):1886455.
- International Sexual Health And REproductive health (I-SHARE) survey during COVID-19: study protocol for online national surveys and global comparative analyses. Sexually transmitted infections. 2021 97(2), pp.88-92.
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices of young adults towards HIV prevention: an analysis of baseline data from a community-based HIV prevention intervention study in two high HIV burden districts, South Africa. BMC Public Health. 2020 Dec;20(1):1-0.
- A community-based HIV counselling and testing programme found a decreasing proportion of new HIV testers in South Africa. African Journal of AIDS Research. 2020 Jan 2;19(1):34-9.
- Social franchising of community-based HIV counselling and testing services to increase HIV testing and linkage to care in Tshwane, South Africa: study protocol for a nonrandomised implementation trial. BMC Public Health (2020) 20:118
- Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): learning from (policy) experiences across countries. Reproductive Health. 2019 Dec 1;16(1):158.
- RCT evaluation of Skhokho: a holistic school intervention to prevent gender-based violence among South African Grade 8s. PLoS one. 2019;14(10).
- Comparison of community-based HIV counselling and testing (CBCT) through index client tracing and other modalities: Outcomes in 13 South African high HIV prevalence districts by gender and age. PloS one. 2019 Sep 6;14(9):e0221215.
- Study on knowledge about associated factors of Tuberculosis (TB) and TB/HIV co-infection among young adults in two districts of South Africa. PloS one, 14(6), p.e0217836.
- Feasibility of community-based HIV self-screening in South Africa: a demonstration project. BMC Public Health 2019: 9:898. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7122-5
- Factors associated with past year physical and sexual intimate partner violence against women in Zimbabwe: results from a national cluster-based cross-sectional survey, Global Health Action, 2019.11:sup3, 1625594 https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1625594
- Rwafa T, Shamu S, Christofides N. Relationship power and HIV sero-status: an analysis of their relationship among low-income urban Zimbabwean postpartum women. BMC Public Health 2019 19:792 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7137-y
- Factors influencing sexually transmissible infection disclosure to male partners by HIV-positive pregnant women in Pretoria townships, South Africa: a qualitative study. Sexual health. 2019 May 10.
- Linkage to care of HIV positive clients in a community based HIV counselling and testing programme: A success story of non-governmental organisations in a South African district. PLoS ONE. 2019; 14(1): e0210826. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210826
- Does a history of sexual and physical childhood abuse contribute to HIV infection risk in adulthood? A study among post-natal women in Harare, Zimbabwe. PLoS one. 2019 Jan 4;14(1):e0198866.
- Social franchising of community‐based HIV testing and linkage to HIV care and treatment services: an evaluation of a pilot study in Tshwane, South Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 2018 Dec;21(12):e25216. https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.25216
Past journal articles
- Opportunities for linking research to policy: lessons learned from implementation research in sexual and reproductive health within the ANSER network. Health Research Policy and Systems. 2018 Dec;16(1):123.
- Mental ill health and factors associated with men’s use of intimate partner violence in Zimbabwe. BMC public health. 2018 Dec;18(1):376.
- Intimate partner violence, forced first sex and adverse pregnancy outcomes in a sample of Zimbabwean women accessing maternal and child health care. BMC Public Health. 2018 Dec 1;18(1):595.
- High-frequency intimate partner violence during pregnancy, postnatal depression and suicidal tendencies in Harare, Zimbabwe. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2016 Jan 1;38:109-14.
- Worldwide prevalence of non-partner sexual violence: A systematic review. Lancet 2014;383:1648–54. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62243-6.
- Intimate Partner Violence after Disclosure of HIV Test Results among Pregnant Women in Harare , Zimbabwe PLoS ONE 2014;9. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109447.
- Opportunities and obstacles to screening pregnant women for intimate partner violence during antenatal care in Zimbabwe. Culture, health & sexuality. 2013 May 1;15(5):511-24.
- Intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Zimbabwe: A cross-sectional study of prevalence, predictors and associations with HIV. Trop Med Int Heal 2013;18:696–711. doi:10.1111/tmi.12078.
- “‘ That Pregnancy Can Bring Noise into the Family ’”: Exploring Intimate Partner Sexual Violence during Pregnancy in the Context of HIV in Zimbabwe 2012;7:1–9. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043148.
- Prevalence and risk factors for intimate partner violence among Grade 8 learners in urban South Africa : baseline analysis from the Skhokho Supporting Success cluster randomised controlled trial 2015. doi:10.1093/inthealth/ihv068.
- A Systematic Review of African Studies on Intimate Partner Violence against Pregnant Women : Prevalence and Risk Factors 2011;6:1–9. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017591.
Books and Book Chapters
- Working towards eradicating the medicalisation of female genital mutilation/cutting. In Degomme O, Peeters E. (eds) 2021. Five years of global academic collaboration building evidence for sexual and reproductive health and rights policies. Ghent: Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policies (ANSER). http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8694618
- The use of preventive HIV medication (PrEP) awaiting approval in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Degomme O, Peeters E. (eds) 2021. Five years of global academic collaboration building evidence for sexual and reproductive health and rights policies. Ghent: Academic Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Policies (ANSER). http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8694618
- Naeemah, Karen Devries, Charlotte Watts, Christina Pallito, Max Petzold, Simukai Shamu, Claudio Garcio-Moreno. Prevalence of non-partner sexual violence: A review of global data. In Donnelly PD, Ward CL, (eds). Oxford textbook of violence prevention: Epidemiology, evidence, and policy. Oxford Textbooks in Public Health; Oxford: Oxford University Press 2015.
- Childbirth in Zimbabwe” In H. Selin, P.K. Stone (eds.), Childbirth Across Cultures, Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science 5. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- Know your Epidemic – Know your Response: Stop Violence against Women in South Africa. Pretoria: 2014. pp118