“Life is so easy on ART, once you accept it”: Acceptance, denial and linkage to HIV care in Shiselweni, Swaziland
Conclusions The manner in which PLHIV process a positive result can influence their engagement with HIV treatment and care. Thus, there is a need for individually tailored approaches to HTS, including the potential for counselling over multiple sessions if required, supporting status acceptance, and disclosure. This is particularly relevant considering 90-90-90 targets and the need to better support PLHIV to engage with HIV treatment and care following diagnosis. (Source: Social Science and Medicine)
Source: Social Science and Medicine - January 25, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Establishment, dispersal and impact of the flower-galling mite Aceria lantanae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae) on Lantana camara (Verbenaceae) in South Africa
This study was therefore conducted to determine the establishment, seasonal performance and dispersal rate of A. lantanae in the aforementioned South African provinces and neighbouring Swaziland. The effect of A. lantanae along with the other previously-established biological control agents on inflorescence and seed production of susceptible L. camara varieties was determined by insecticide exclusion experiments in the field. Aceria lantanae became established at 58.6% of the original release sites located in the four provinces. The mite has also established widely within the geographic range of L. camara in South Africa a...
Source: Biological Control - January 18, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: research
Prevalence of preoperative penile abnormalities among voluntary male medical circumcision patients in Swaziland
Circumcision has been found to be an effective strategy for lowering the transmission of HIV in Africa. The Luke Commission, a mobile hospital outreach program, has used this information to decrease the rate of HIV in Swaziland by performing voluntary male medical circumcisions throughout the country. During many of these circumcisions, genital medical conditions and penile abnormalities are simultaneously discovered and corrected. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery - January 11, 2017 Category: Surgery Authors: Anthony R. Oddo, Elizabeth Ruedrich, Christopher Zust, Lindsey Marugg, Echo VanderWal, Harry VanderWal, Rebekah Sartori, Ronald Markert, Mary C. McCarthy Source Type: research
Christians' cut: popular religion and the global health campaign for medical male circumcision in Swaziland.
This article considers interpretive differences by Christians across the Kingdom's three ecumenical organisations, showing how a diverse group people singly glossed as 'Christian' in most public health acceptability studies critically rejected the procedure in unity, but not uniformly. Participants saw medical male circumcision's promotion and messaging as offensive and circumspect, and medical male circumcision as confounding gendered expectations and sexualised ideas of the body in Swazi Culture. Pentecostal-charismatic churches were seen as more likely to accept medical male circumcision, while traditionalist African In...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 10, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Golomski C, Nyawo S Tags: Cult Health Sex Source Type: research
Task shifting or shifting care practices? The impact of task shifting on patients ’ experiences and health care arrangements in Swaziland
In the quest to achieve early HIV treatment goals, national HIV treatment programmes dependent on international funding have been dramatically redesigned over the last 5 years. Bottlenecks in treatment provisi... (Source: BMC Health Services Research)
Source: BMC Health Services Research - January 10, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane and Eileen Moyer Source Type: research
