Herman Meulemans

Biographic Data

ID1725524
NAMEHerman Meulemans
GIVEN NAMESHerman
FAMILY NAMEMeulemans
SIGNATUREMEULEMANS H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Antwerp
ORCID0000-0002-5698-7209
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Factors influencing risky sexual behaviour among Mozambican miners

    Open AccessEmilia Martins-Fonteyn, Osvaldo Loquiha et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2017

    In Mozambique, behavioural theory emphasising personal behavioural changes is the main strategy to combat HIV among miners. Our findings suggest there is a need to change thinking processes about how to influence safer sexual behaviour. This is viewed to be the result of a person's individual decision, due to of the complexity of social and contextual factors that may also influence sexual behaviours. This only stresses the need for HIV preventio…

  • Improving access to quality care for female slum dwellers in urban Maharashtra, India

    Open AccessJoris Michielsen, Denny John et al.ARTICLESocial Theory & Health2011References: 15

  • Management of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in an urban setting in Zambia

    Open AccessChanda Mulenga, David Mwakazanga et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    There is a need to emphasise the importance of submitting follow-up sputum during patient education and counselling in order to enhance patient adherence and ultimately treatment outcome

  • Who is accessing public-sector anti-retroviral treatment in the Free State, South Africa? An exploratory study of the first three years of programme implementation

    Open AccessEdwin Wouters, Christo Heunis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    Our analysis showed significant changes in the demographic, socio-economic, geographic, and medical characteristics of the patients during the first three years of the programme. Knowledge of the characteristics of these patients can assist policy makers in developing measures to retain them in care. The information reported here can also be usefully applied to target patient groups that are currently not reached in the implementation of the ART …

  • The National Strategic Plan of South Africa

    Open AccessEdwin Wouters, Henriëtte Van Rensburg et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2010Cited by: 5References: 43

    Hitherto, the story of HIV/AIDS in South Africa is, to a large extent, one of lost opportunities. Whereas the country has one of the worst epidemics in the world, consecutive national AIDS strategies have been repeatedly marked by failure over almost three decades. Understandably, South Africa's most recent HIV/AIDS policy, the HIV & AIDS and STI Strategic Plan for South Africa, 2007-2011 (NSP), has been greeted with general acclaim. However, wha…

  • State of the ART

    Edwin Wouters, Francis Van Loon et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2009

    The South African public-sector antiretroviral treatment (ART) program has yielded promising early results. To extend and reinforce these preliminary findings, we undertook a detailed assessment of the clinical efficacy and outcomes over two years of ART. The primary objective was to assess the clinical outcomes and adverse effects of two years of ART, while identifying the possible effects of baseline health and patient characteristics. A second…

  • Slow to share

    Edwin Wouters, Herman Meulemans et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2009

    HIV serostatus disclosure to community members has been shown to have potential public and personal health benefits. This study examined the impact of bonding and bridging social capital (i.e. close and distant ties) on public disclosure and described the complex relationship between bonding and bridging social capital in the context of serostatus disclosure among AIDS patients enrolled in South Africa's public sector antiretroviral treatment (AR…

  • Physical and emotional health outcomes after 12 months of public-sector antiretroviral treatment in the Free State Province of South Africa

    Open AccessEdwin Wouters, Christo Heunis et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2009

    This study provides evidence that the South African public-sector ART programme is effective in delivering sustained improvement in patient well-being. However, the results should encourage clinicians and lay health workers to be vigilant regarding the adverse effects of treatment, because they can seriously affect physical and emotional QoL

  • Public-sector ART in the Free State Province, South Africa

    Open AccessEdwin Wouters, Willemien Van Damme et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2009Cited by: 7References: 43

  • Short-term physical and emotional health outcomes of public sector ART in the Free State province of South Africa

    Open AccessEdwin Wouters, Herman Meulemans et al.ARTICLEQuality of Life Research2007