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| Abigail HarrisonSummaryAffiliation: Brown University Country: USA Publications
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Key informant perspectives on policy- and service-level challenges and opportunities for delivering integrated sexual and reproductive health and HIV care in South AfricaJennifer A Smit
MatCH, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of the Witwatersrand, Durban, South Africa
BMC Health Serv Res 12:48. 2012..This study comprised formative research for the development of an integrated service delivery model in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province...
Gender, peer and partner influences on adolescent HIV risk in rural South AfricaAbigail Harrison
Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Sex Health 9:178-86. 2012..In preparation for a school-based intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, a cross-sectional survey of potential HIV risk factors in youth aged 14-17 (n=983) was conducted...- In the absence of marriage: long-term concurrent partnerships, pregnancy, and HIV risk dynamics among South African young adultsAbigail Harrison
Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
AIDS Behav 14:991-1000. 2010..These findings suggest the need to focus prevention efforts on the partnership context, including partner reduction, and structural factors that impede or enhance prevention success... - Gender role and relationship norms among young adults in South Africa: measuring the context of masculinity and HIV riskAbigail Harrison
Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Box 1836, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Urban Health 83:709-22. 2006..These findings are discussed in relation to previous research on gender, heterosexual interactions and masculinity in this area, as well as the implications for HIV prevention programs... - HIV prevention for South African youth: which interventions work? A systematic review of current evidenceAbigail Harrison
Brown University, Population Studies and Training Center, and Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Providence, RI, USA
BMC Public Health 10:102. 2010..In South Africa, HIV prevalence among youth aged 15-24 is among the world's highest. Given the urgent need to identify effective HIV prevention approaches, this review assesses the evidence base for youth HIV prevention in South Africa... 
Young people's sexual partnerships in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: patterns, contextual influences, and HIV riskAbigail Harrison
Brown University, Population Studies and Training Center and Department of Medicine, Box 1836, 68 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Stud Fam Plann 39:295-308. 2008..These fluid partnership patterns are an important feature of young people's sexual risk in the context of South Africa's severe HIV epidemic...- Hidden love: sexual ideologies and relationship ideals among rural South African adolescents in the context of HIV/AIDSAbigail Harrison
Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Cult Health Sex 10:175-89. 2008..These dichotomies of love and romance versus stigma and secrecy frame young people's discourse about sexuality. A discourse about healthy sexuality is largely absent, impeding the prevention of HIV in this setting... - The Mpondombili Project: preventing HIV/AIDS and unintended pregnancy among rural South African school-going adolescentsJoanne E Mantell
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Reprod Health Matters 14:113-22. 2006.... - Young men's HIV risks in South Africa: the importance of multiple risk behaviorsAbigail Harrison
AIDS 20:1467-8; author reply 1468-9. 2006 - Men, multiple sexual partners, and young adults' sexual relationships: understanding the role of gender in the study of riskLUCIA F O'SULLIVAN
Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Mazer 100, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
J Urban Health 83:695-708. 2006..Findings are discussed in terms of implications for prevention program targeting young urban adults... - Gender dynamics in the primary sexual relationships of young rural South African women and menLUCIA F O'SULLIVAN
Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, USA
Cult Health Sex 8:99-113. 2006..Efforts aimed at improving acceptance and adoption of alternative scripts for women and men may help to broaden young people's repertoire of HIV prevention options... - Why do women seek antenatal care late? Perspectives from rural South AfricaLandon Myer
School of Public Health and Primary Health Care at the University of Cape, Town, South Africa
J Midwifery Womens Health 48:268-72. 2003..Health education programs promoting antenatal care are required to explain the importance of effective antenatal care toward maternal and child health... - Where is the condom? Contraceptive practice in a rural district of South AfricaJennifer Smit
Africa Centre for Population Studies and Reproductive Health, Reproductive Health Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Afr J Reprod Health 6:71-8. 2002..Many (70.3%) women were not using any form of contraception. Counselling about contraceptive options should take into account the need for dual protection, and strategies for increasing condom use should be promoted...