Search Results - "Bekker, G."

Goals for girls: a cluster-randomized trial to investigate a school-based sexual health programme amongst female learners in South Africa by Pike, C, Coakley, C, Ahmed, N, Lee, D, Little, F, Padian, N, Bekker, L G

“…Abstract The delivery of comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents at school is recognized as a long-term strategy to support adolescent health…”
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Acceptability, feasibility and cost of point of care testing for sexually transmitted infections among South African adolescents where syndromic management is standard of care by Marcus, Rebecca, C, Pike, Gill, K, Smith, P, Rouhani, S, Mendelsohn, A, Mendel, E, Lince-Deroche, N, Naidoo, K, Ahmed, N, Stirrup, O, Roseleur, J, Leuner, R, Meyer-Rath, G, Bekker, L. G

“…Background Young people (YP) in southern Africa are at substantial risk of HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Despite the epidemiological and…”
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HIV viraemia and mother‐to‐child transmission risk after antiretroviral therapy initiation in pregnancy in Cape Town, South Africa by Myer, L, Phillips, TK, McIntyre, JA, Hsiao, N‐Y, Petro, G, Zerbe, A, Ramjith, J, Bekker, L‐G, Abrams, EJ

“…Objectives Maternal HIV viral load (VL) drives mother‐to‐child HIV transmission (MTCT) risk but there are few data from sub‐Saharan Africa, where most MTCT…”
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Urgent appeal to allow all professional nurses and midwives to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in South Africa by Davey, D.L. Joseph, Wilkinson, L, Grimsrud, A, Nelson, A, Gray, A, Raphael, Y, Wattrus, C, Pillay, Y, Bekker, L.-G

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Changing prevalence of tuberculosis infection with increasing age in high-burden townships in South Africa by WOOD, R, LIANG, H, WU, H, MIDDELKOOP, K, ONI, T, RANGAKA, M. X, WILKINSON, R. J, BEKKER, L.-G, LAWN, S. D

“…SETTING: Crowded townships of Cape Town, South Africa, where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence and tuberculosis (TB) notification rates are among…”
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Heterologous vaccination of BNT162b2 in Ad26. COV2.S-vaccinated healthcare workers elicits long-term humoral immune response by Jacbonson, B, Khan, A, Shulman, A H, Segal, B, Mayne, E, Bekker, L-G, Sanne, I, Gray, G

“…Background. To date, there are no immunological data for the SARS-CoV-2 heterologous vaccination schedule in the South African (SA) population. Objectives. To…”
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Feasibility and acceptability of conducting HIV vaccine trials in adolescents in South Africa : going beyond willingness to participate towards implementation by Mathebula, M., Middelkoop, K., Slack, C., Bekker, L-G., Pike, C., Wallace, M., Roux, S., Strode, A., Smith, P., Latka, M.H., Chandia, J., Gray, G., Nchabeleng, M., Bennie, T., Churchyard, G.

“…Background. HIV/AIDS remains a leading cause of death in adolescents (aged 15 - 25 years), and in sub-Saharan Africa HIV-related deaths continue to rise in…”
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Impact of human immunodeficiency virus and CD4 count on tuberculosis diagnosis: analysis of city-wide data from Cape Town, South Africa by Gupta, R. K., Lawn, S. D., Bekker, L-G., Caldwell, J., Kaplan, R., Wood, R.

“…BACKGROUND: The impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and CD4 count on the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) at population level is incompletely…”
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Chest radiograph reading and recording system: evaluation for tuberculosis screening in patients with advanced HIV by DAWSON, R, MASUKA, P, EDWARDS, D. J, BATEMAN, E. D, BEKKER, L.-G, WOOD, R, LAWN, S. D

“…SETTING: An antiretroviral treatment (ART) service in Gugulethu township, Cape Town, South Africa.OBJECTIVE: To assess the inter-observer agreement when using…”
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis for South African adolescents: What evidence? by Bekker, L-G, Gill, K, Wallace, M

“…Adolescents and young women, particularly in South Africa, are at increased risk of HIV acquisition. To date, we have had limited primary prevention options to…”
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Spatio–Environmental Analysis of Vespula germanica Nest Records Explains Slow Invasion in South Africa by Veldtman, Ruan, Daly, Derek, Bekker, Gerard F. H. v. G.

“…Investigating the distributions of invasive species in marginal habitats can give clues to the factors constraining invasive spread. Vespula germanica is the…”
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Sisonke phase 3B open-label study: Lessons learnt for national and global vaccination scale-up during epidemics by Goga, A.E, Bekker, L.-G, Garrett, N, Takuva, S, Sanne, I, Odhiambo, J, Mayat, F, Fairall, L, Brey, Z, Bamford, L, Tanna, G, Gray, G

“…Sisonke is a multicentre, open-label, single-arm phase 3B vaccine implementation study of healthcare workers (HCWs) in South Africa, with prospective…”
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Heterologous vaccination of BNT162b2 in Ad26. COV2.S-vaccinated healthcare workers elicits long-term humoral immune response by Jacobson, B, Khan, A, Shulman, A H, Segal, B, Mayne, E, Bekker, L-G, Sanne, I, Gray, G

“…Background To date, there are no immunological data for the SARS-CoV-2 heterologous vaccination schedule in the South African (SA) population.Objectives To…”
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Does participation in an HIV vaccine efficacy trial affect risk behaviour in South Africa? by Gray, G.E, Metch, B, Churchyard, G, Mlisana, K, Nchabeleng, M, Allen, M, Moodie, Z, Kublin, J, Bekker, L.-G

“…Highlights ► Risk behaviour over time in the first HIV efficacy trial in South Africa is reported. ► No evidence of sexual risk compensation is observed. ►…”
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An integrated community TB-HIV adherence model provides an alternative to DOT for tuberculosis patients in Cape Town by Kaplan, R., Caldwell, J., Hermans, S., Adriaanse, S., Mtwisha, L., Bekker, L-G., Jennings, K., Wood, R.

“…SETTING: Cape Town, South Africa.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate anti-tuberculosis treatment outcomes and rate of antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation using weekly…”
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Antiviral and Antitumor Peptides from Insects by Chernysh, Sergey, Kim, S. I., Bekker, G., Pleskach, V. A., Filatova, N. A., Anikin, V. B., Platonov, V. G., Bulet, Philippe

“…Insects can rapidly clear microbial infections by producing a variety of immune-induced molecules including antibacterial and/or anti-fungal…”
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Uptake and acceptability of medical male circumcision among young males in two culturally distinct settings in South Africa: A longitudinal, community-based study (the MACHO study) by Smith, P J, Oulo, B, Wallace, M, Gill, K, Beijneveld, J A, Bennie, T, Myer, L, Dietrich, J J, Johnson, L F, Gray, G, Bekker, L-G

“…Young South Africans experience high rates of HIV infection. While nationally scaled medical male circumcision (MMC) can help to curb HIV infection rates in…”
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Protecting healthcare workers: A critical part of the COVID-19 response by Bekker, L-G, Delany-Moretlwe, S, Biccard, B, Du Toit, L, Lovat, L B, Dehbi, H-M, Moonesinghe, R, Rees, H, Avidan, M S

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Retreatment tuberculosis in a South African community: the role of re-infection, HIV and antiretroviral treatment by Middelkoop, K., Bekker, L-G., Shashkina, E., Kreiswirth, B., Wood, R.

“…BACKGROUND: Limited data exist on the impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or antiretroviral treatment (ART) on retreatment tuberculosis (TB).METHODS:…”
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Guideline on safer conception in fertile HIV-infected individuals and couples by Bekker, L.-G, Black, V, Myer, L, Rees, H, Cooper, D, Mall, S, Mnyami, C, Conradie, F, Mahabeer, I, Gilbert, L, Schwartz, S

“…Ninety years ago the isolation of insulin transformed the lives of people with type 1 diabetes. Now, models based on empirical data estimate that a 25-year-old…”
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