Andrew Boulle

Datos Biográficos

ID308687
NOMBREAndrew Boulle
NOMBRESAndrew
APELLIDOBoulle
FIRMABOULLE A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0002-7713-8062
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS15
TOTAL DE CITAS4
TOTAL COMO AUTOR15
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H1

  • A model-based approach to estimating the prevalence of disease combinations in South Africa

    Open AccessLeigh F Johnson, Reshma Kassanjee et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: The development of strategies to better detect and manage patients with multiple long-term conditions requires estimates of the most prevalent condition combinations. However, standard meta-analysis tools are not well suited to synthesising heterogeneous multimorbidity data. METHODS: We developed a statistical model to synthesise data on associations between diseases and nationally representative prevalence estimates and applied the m…

  • Sars-CoV-2 seroepidemiology in Cape Town, South Africa, and implications for future outbreaks in low-income communities

    Open AccessHannah Hussey, Helena Vreede et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    In low- and middle-income countries where SARS-CoV-2 testing is limited, seroprevalence studies can help describe and characterise the extent of the pandemic, as well as elucidate protection conferred by prior exposure. We conducted repeated cross-sectional serosurveys (July 2020 –November 2021) using residual samples from patients from Cape Town, South Africa, sent for routine laboratory studies for non-COVID-19 conditions. SARS-CoV-2 anti-nucle…

  • Maternal weight trajectories and associations with infant growth in South African women

    Open AccessHlengiwe P Madlala, Angela M Bengtson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Identification of unique longitudinal weight trajectory groupings might inform comprehensive efforts targeted at improving healthy maternal weight and infant outcomes

  • Evaluation of a public Covid-19 dashboard in the Western Cape, South Africa

    Open AccessMuzzammil Ismail, Erna Morden et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The study demonstrated that both the availability of data and an understanding of end-user need is critical when developing and delivering public health tools that may ultimately garner public trust and influence individual behaviour

  • Growth patterns of infants with in- utero HIV and ARV exposure in Cape Town, South Africa and Lusaka, Zambia

    Open AccessDorothy C Nyemba, Emma Kalk et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Infant growth trajectories differed by country, highlighting the importance of studying contextual influences on outcomes of infants who were HEU

  • Attrition from Care Among Men Initiating ART in Male-Only Clinics Compared with Men in General Primary Healthcare Clinics in Khayelitsha, South Africa

    Open AccessTali Cassidy, Morna Cornell et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2022

    Men have higher rates of attrition from antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs than women. In Khayelitsha, a high HIV prevalence area in South Africa, two public sector primary healthcare clinics offer services, including HIV testing and treatment, exclusively to men. We compared attrition from ART care among men initiating ART at these clinics with male attrition in six general primary healthcare clinics in Khayelitsha. We described baseline char…

  • Changing contextual factors from baseline to 9-months post-HIV diagnosis predict 5-year mortality in Durban, South Africa

    Ingrid V Bassett, Ai Xu et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2021

    Changes in an individual’s contextual factors following HIV diagnosis may influence long-term outcomes. We evaluated how changes to contextual factors between HIV diagnosis and 9-month follow-up predict 5-year mortality among HIV-infected individuals in Durban, South Africa enrolled in the Sizanani Trial (NCT01188941). We used random survival forests to identify 9-month variables and changes from baseline predictive of time to mortality. We incor…

  • Association between food intake and obesity in pregnant women living with and without HIV in Cape Town, South Africa

    Open AccessHlengiwe P Madlala, Nelia P Steyn et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Diet modification may promote healthy weight in pregnant women living with and without HIV

  • Feasibility of an HIV self-testing intervention

    Open AccessBernard Njau, Esther Lisasi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    The findings suggest that HIVST may be feasible to implement in this study setting, with the majority of participants reporting positive attitudes, supportive perceived norms, and self-efficacy. Hence, future HIVST interventions should address the negative beliefs, and perceived barriers towards HIVST to increase HIV testing among the target population in Northern Tanzania

  • Prospects for HIV control in South Africa

    Open AccessLeigh F Johnson, Calvin Chiu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2016

    BACKGROUND: The goal of virtual elimination of horizontal and mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa (SA) has been proposed, but there have been few systematic investigations of which interventions are likely to be most critical to reducing HIV incidence. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate SA's potential to achieve virtual elimination targets and to identify which interventions will be most critical to achieving HIV incidence reduct…

  • Elevation and cholera

    Open AccessMiguel Angel Luque-Fernandez, Miguel A Luque Fernandez et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2012

    This study highlights the importance of considering topographical elevation as a geographical and environmental risk factor in order to plan cholera preventive activities linked with water and sanitation in endemic areas. Furthermore, elevation information, among other risk factors, could help to spatially orientate cholera control interventions during an epidemic

  • Orphans of the Aids epidemic? The extent, nature and circumstances of child-headed households in South Africa

    Helen Meintjes, Katharine Halls et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2010

    There is widespread concern that the number of children living in "child-headed households" is rapidly increasing as a result of AIDS-related adult mortality in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Based on analyses of data from several representative national surveys over the period 2000-2007, this paper examines the extent to which this is the case in South Africa. It explores trends in the number of children living in child-only households and characte…

  • I don't use a condom (with my regular partner) because I know that I'm faithful, but with everyone else I do

    Open AccessChris Kenyon, Andrew Boulle et al.ARTICLESAHARA-J Journal of Social…2010Citada por: 4Referencias: 13

    Finding ways to reduce the high rates of sexual partner concurrency is increasingly believed to be vital to controlling HIV spread in southern Africa. We describe the frequency and correlates of sexual partner concurrency in a representative sample of 3 324 young South Africans aged 14-25. Of the 2 468 individuals who were sexually active 21% had engaged in concurrent sexual partnerships. Multivariate analysis revealed that concurrency was more c…

  • A network-level explanation for the differences in HIV prevalence in South Africa's racial groups

    Chris Kenyon, Sipho Dlamini et al.ARTICLEAfrican Journal of AIDS Research2009

    Analyses of individual-level risk factors have not been able to adequately explain why HIV has spread so extensively in southern Africa and why this has occurred especially within certain racial or ethnic groups. Using data from a longitudinal study of a representative sample of adolescents aged 14-22 living in Cape Town, South Africa, this article presents evidence of how differences in individual-level risk factors as well as sexual network str…

  • Exploring HIV risk perception and behaviour in the context of antiretroviral treatment

    Andrew Boulle, Katherine Hilderbrand et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2008

    The objective of this cross-sectional household survey was to assess factors influencing HIV risk perception, behaviour and intervention uptake in a community characterised by high HIV prevalence and availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART). The survey was conducted in Khayelitsha, South Africa and involved two-stage sampling with self-weighting clusters and random selection of households within clusters. One man and woman between 14 and 49 y…