"Driving the devil away": qualitative insights into miraculous cures for AIDS in a rural Tanzanian wardMaria Roura
Centre for Population Studies, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, 49 51 Bedford Square, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, WC 1B 3DP, UK
BMC Public Health 10:427. 2010
..This study investigated FLs' attitudes towards different HIV treatment options (traditional, medical and spiritual) available in a rural Tanzanian ward...
Socio-economic change and parent-child relationships: implications for parental control and HIV prevention among young people in rural North Western TanzaniaJoyce Wamoyi
Programme for Sexual and Reproductive Health, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania
Cult Health Sex 13:615-28. 2011
..Families, and particularly parents, should be supported to respond to the emerging challenges and changes in their families and the wider society...
- Parental control and monitoring of young people's sexual behaviour in rural North-Western Tanzania: implications for sexual and reproductive health interventions
Joyce Wamoyi
National Institute for Medical Research, PO Box 1462, Mwanza, Tanzania
BMC Public Health 11:106. 2011
..This paper examines parental control and monitoring and the implications of this on young people's sexual decision making in a rural setting in North-Western Tanzania...
- "Women's bodies are shops": beliefs about transactional sex and implications for understanding gender power and HIV prevention in Tanzania
Joyce Wamoyi
National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania
Arch Sex Behav 40:5-15. 2011
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- Changes in sexual desires and behaviours of people living with HIV after initiation of ART: implications for HIV prevention and health promotion
Joyce Wamoyi
National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania
BMC Public Health 11:633. 2011
..The aim of the paper is to explore the changing sexual desires and behaviour of people on ART in Uganda over a 30 month period...
- Parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health in rural Tanzania: Implications for young people's sexual health interventions
Joyce Wamoyi
National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza Research Centre, Isamilo Road, P, O Box 1462, Mwanza, Tanzania
Reprod Health 7:6. 2010
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- Transactional sex amongst young people in rural northern Tanzania: an ethnography of young women's motivations and negotiation
Joyce Wamoyi
National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania
Reprod Health 7:2. 2010
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Barriers to accessing antiretroviral therapy in Kisesa, Tanzania: a qualitative study of early rural referrals to the national programGerry Hillary Mshana
National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, United Republic of Tanzania
AIDS Patient Care STDS 20:649-57. 2006
..Encouraging successful referrals to share their positive experiences and contribute to nascent community mobililzation could start to address this seemingly intractable problem...
- 'She was bewitched and caught an illness similar to AIDS': AIDS and sexually transmitted infection causation beliefs in rural northern Tanzania
Gerry Mshana
National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania
Cult Health Sex 8:45-58. 2006
..Punishment of accused witches occurs officially and informally, and this may increase with increasing AIDS deaths. There is an urgent need for culturally appropriate interventions to address HIV/AIDS causation beliefs in the region...
- Comparison of sexual behavior data collected using a coital diary and a clinic-based interview during a microbicide pilot study in Mwanza, Tanzania
Shelley Lees
Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania
Sex Transm Dis 37:497-501. 2010
..The performance of coital diaries (CDs) and clinic-based interviews to measure sexual behavior was compared during a pilot study for a Phase III microbicide trial...
