Eliza Govender
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3562264 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eliza Govender |
| NOMBRES | Eliza |
| APELLIDO | Govender |
| FIRMA | GOVENDER E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0937-9438 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Preparedness of Primary Health Care Clinic (PHCC) Providers for the Provision of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to Adolescent Girls and Young Women (Agyw)
About two-thirds of all HIV infections in 2024 were in sub-Saharan Africa, where adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) bear a disproportionate burden. Daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) offers an HIV prevention option for AGYW at high risk who are unable to negotiate safer sex with male partners. Primary health care clinics (PHCCs) staffed by nurses are an important access point for health services, including antiretroviral treatment, f…
Written on the Skin
To address challenges associated with the uptake of daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by young women at high risk of acquiring HIV, a range of novel, long-acting, slow-release products are being developed and clinically evaluated. One such technology is an annual implant of tenofovir alafenamide (TAF). This study explores the perspectives of participants from a first-in-human trial of an annual TAF implant to inform considerations for fu…
“There is nobody who wouldn’t like to”
A novel long-acting HIV oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implant was first tested in a Phase I clinical trial in South Africa, and this study sought to understand motivations behind trial participants enrolment, highlighting considerations for recruitment in future studies. Qualitative research was conducted using in-depth interviews (IDIs) with 29 study participants, 18 of whom also participated in focus group discussions (FGDs). Participant…
Addressing Stigma and Structural Barriers to Communicating Covid-19 Using Community Radio
Some studies report that top-down COVID-19 communication interventions failed to address local structural challenges, such as stigma and lack of access to media forms, which led to communicative marginalisation among resource-limited communities. This article explores how the community radio medium could facilitate host community members’ participation in COVID-19 communication interventions amid these local structural factors. Participants were …
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Communication for development and social change is an evolving field both in research and practice, transcending paradigms of conventional communication towards engaging and somewhat exposing some of the real-life communicative disorders experienced by communities. While public health and communication for development and social change operate from diverse paradigmatic thinking and are applied quite independently as disciplinary fields of study, …
Communicating Covid-19
This edited collection, follows on from 'Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' (2021) and brings together different scholars from around the world to explore and critique the ongoing advances of communicating COVID, two years into the pandemic. \n \nPandemic life has become familiar to us, with all its disruptions and uncertainties. In the second year of COVID, many societies emerged well attuned to new waves of infections, whil…
A Socioecological Perspective to Understand Perceived Risks and Benefits of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Towards the Promotion of Combination HIV Prevention Strategies
HIV incidence rates remain disproportionately high among adolescent girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa, where women are 5–7 times more likely to become HIV-infected than their male peers. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a first-generation licenced biomedical innovation, can benefit populations at substantial risk of HIV acquisition, with options for independent product use for women in vulnerable situations. However, adoption of ne…
Access, participation, and social capital as intangible outcomes of community radio practice in Ghana
The battle for access to free speech and information flow in Ghana occurs within a context of popular resistance, struggles for national liberation and the control of power, knowledge and free expression. This still resonates within Ghana’s radio broadcasting sector. Unlike dominant approaches to communicating development, where change outcomes are exclusively based on quantifiable indicators such as message recall and engagement, communication f…
Putting entertainment and education back into community radio
Health communicators faced substantial challenges in effectively communicating COVID-19 among resource-limited communities due to the rapid changes of the pandemic. This article explores the possibility of communicating COVID-19 via community radio (CR) using entertainment education (EE) based strategies with host communities. A qualitative approach was adopted using focus group discussions and in-depth interviews to collect data, and reflexive t…
Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance
This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis. The ten-step participatory planning and action model to involve the community in the social change process is employed as the theoretical framework for…
Presidential communication approaches and the impact on public health
The HIV response in the African continent over past decades demonstrates the potency that the words and actions of political leaders have in either expediting or impeding the implementation and adoption of preventive measures at the individual and community levels. The article explores the health communication approaches employed by two South African past presidents (Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma) in responding to the HIV epidemic, and contrasts the…
Tailoring Communication to Increase the Promotion of Oral PrEP
In Sub-Saharan Africa, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence rates remain disproportionately high among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), who are five to seven times more likely to contract HIV than their male peers. Following the 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) Guideline on When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy and on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV, the South African Department of Health (DoH) released the National Pol…
The breakthrough of digital health
Male partners’ influence on women’s acceptance and use of PrEP products across two high HIV-burdened districts in South Africa
The demonstrated efficacy of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has brought hope of controlling the epidemic among women with limited HIV preventation options. Several studies have demonstrated the importance of male partner involvement in female sexual and reproductive health but there is limited research on male involvement in the adoption of HIV prevention methods among women. Using a culture-centred approach, this article discusses perceptions o…
Understanding women and men’s acceptability of current and new HIV prevention technologies in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Despite significant advances to the HIV epidemic, prevention remains a challenge globally. Adolescent girls and young women in southern and Eastern Africa are still at high risk of acquiring HIV infection with limited prevention options. The expanding product pipeline of novel drugs and delivery approaches has highlighted the importance of acceptability and uptake of these anti-retroviral based products to realize their full prevention potential.…
Influences of geo-spatial location on pre-exposure prophylaxis use in South Africa
Young women bear a disproportionately high burden of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, prioritising pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can be an integral part of HIV prevention combination strategies. Women initiated HIV prevention technology options will require consistent adherence, an imperative for product effectiveness. With several PrEP clinical trials underway; exploring women's acceptability to advances in HIV prevention technologies can …
Secrecy, empowerment and protection
for all populations at high risk of acquiring HIV opens the way for implementation of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The impact of new prevention technologies is, however, dependent on demand creation strategies such as user awareness, acceptability and access, which in turn are influenced by sociocultural and gender norms. This study was conducted in three locations in KwaZulu-Natal, urban, rural and peri-urban, with six participatory wor…
Entertainment education theory and practice in HIV/Aids communication
Within development communication, gaps remain in theory and practice: communication innovations are taking place which either do not incorporate theory or fail to challenge the assumptions of development communication and HIV/AIDS theory. This can lead to the implementation of unsuccessful interventions that lack theoretical frameworks or to uninformed practice, making it difficult to replicate. Further, research has demonstrated that Entertainme…
Entertainment education theory and practice in HIV/Aids communication
Within development communication, gaps remain in theory and practice: communication innovations are taking place which either do not incorporate theory or fail to challenge the assumptions of development communication and HIV/AIDS theory. This can lead to the implementation of unsuccessful interventions that lack theoretical frameworks or to uninformed practice, making it difficult to replicate. Further, research has demonstrated that Entertainme…
Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance
This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis. The ten-step participatory planning and action model to involve the community in the social change process is employed as the theoretical framework for…
Entertainment education theory and practice in HIV/Aids communication
Within development communication, gaps remain in theory and practice: communication innovations are taking place which either do not incorporate theory or fail to challenge the assumptions of development communication and HIV/AIDS theory. This can lead to the implementation of unsuccessful interventions that lack theoretical frameworks or to uninformed practice, making it difficult to replicate. Further, research has demonstrated that Entertainme…
Influences of geo-spatial location on pre-exposure prophylaxis use in South Africa
Young women bear a disproportionately high burden of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, prioritising pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can be an integral part of HIV prevention combination strategies. Women initiated HIV prevention technology options will require consistent adherence, an imperative for product effectiveness. With several PrEP clinical trials underway; exploring women's acceptability to advances in HIV prevention technologies can …
Secrecy, empowerment and protection
for all populations at high risk of acquiring HIV opens the way for implementation of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The impact of new prevention technologies is, however, dependent on demand creation strategies such as user awareness, acceptability and access, which in turn are influenced by sociocultural and gender norms. This study was conducted in three locations in KwaZulu-Natal, urban, rural and peri-urban, with six participatory wor…
Understanding women and men’s acceptability of current and new HIV prevention technologies in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Despite significant advances to the HIV epidemic, prevention remains a challenge globally. Adolescent girls and young women in southern and Eastern Africa are still at high risk of acquiring HIV infection with limited prevention options. The expanding product pipeline of novel drugs and delivery approaches has highlighted the importance of acceptability and uptake of these anti-retroviral based products to realize their full prevention potential.…
Male partners’ influence on women’s acceptance and use of PrEP products across two high HIV-burdened districts in South Africa
The demonstrated efficacy of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has brought hope of controlling the epidemic among women with limited HIV preventation options. Several studies have demonstrated the importance of male partner involvement in female sexual and reproductive health but there is limited research on male involvement in the adoption of HIV prevention methods among women. Using a culture-centred approach, this article discusses perceptions o…
Tailoring Communication to Increase the Promotion of Oral PrEP
In Sub-Saharan Africa, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence rates remain disproportionately high among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), who are five to seven times more likely to contract HIV than their male peers. Following the 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) Guideline on When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy and on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV, the South African Department of Health (DoH) released the National Pol…
The breakthrough of digital health
Presidential communication approaches and the impact on public health
The HIV response in the African continent over past decades demonstrates the potency that the words and actions of political leaders have in either expediting or impeding the implementation and adoption of preventive measures at the individual and community levels. The article explores the health communication approaches employed by two South African past presidents (Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma) in responding to the HIV epidemic, and contrasts the…
Putting entertainment and education back into community radio
Health communicators faced substantial challenges in effectively communicating COVID-19 among resource-limited communities due to the rapid changes of the pandemic. This article explores the possibility of communicating COVID-19 via community radio (CR) using entertainment education (EE) based strategies with host communities. A qualitative approach was adopted using focus group discussions and in-depth interviews to collect data, and reflexive t…
Vernacular Radio and the Practice of Resistance
This article explores how local values and social identities can be integrated into Ghana’s formal COVID-19 public health communication interventions using community radio. The study adopted a qualitative approach using focus group discussions, in-depth interviews, and reflexive thematic analysis. The ten-step participatory planning and action model to involve the community in the social change process is employed as the theoretical framework for…
Communicating Covid-19
This edited collection, follows on from 'Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' (2021) and brings together different scholars from around the world to explore and critique the ongoing advances of communicating COVID, two years into the pandemic. \n \nPandemic life has become familiar to us, with all its disruptions and uncertainties. In the second year of COVID, many societies emerged well attuned to new waves of infections, whil…
A Socioecological Perspective to Understand Perceived Risks and Benefits of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Towards the Promotion of Combination HIV Prevention Strategies
HIV incidence rates remain disproportionately high among adolescent girls and young women in Sub-Saharan Africa, where women are 5–7 times more likely to become HIV-infected than their male peers. Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a first-generation licenced biomedical innovation, can benefit populations at substantial risk of HIV acquisition, with options for independent product use for women in vulnerable situations. However, adoption of ne…
Access, participation, and social capital as intangible outcomes of community radio practice in Ghana
The battle for access to free speech and information flow in Ghana occurs within a context of popular resistance, struggles for national liberation and the control of power, knowledge and free expression. This still resonates within Ghana’s radio broadcasting sector. Unlike dominant approaches to communicating development, where change outcomes are exclusively based on quantifiable indicators such as message recall and engagement, communication f…
Addressing Stigma and Structural Barriers to Communicating Covid-19 Using Community Radio
Some studies report that top-down COVID-19 communication interventions failed to address local structural challenges, such as stigma and lack of access to media forms, which led to communicative marginalisation among resource-limited communities. This article explores how the community radio medium could facilitate host community members’ participation in COVID-19 communication interventions amid these local structural factors. Participants were …
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Communication for development and social change is an evolving field both in research and practice, transcending paradigms of conventional communication towards engaging and somewhat exposing some of the real-life communicative disorders experienced by communities. While public health and communication for development and social change operate from diverse paradigmatic thinking and are applied quite independently as disciplinary fields of study, …
Preparedness of Primary Health Care Clinic (PHCC) Providers for the Provision of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to Adolescent Girls and Young Women (Agyw)
About two-thirds of all HIV infections in 2024 were in sub-Saharan Africa, where adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) bear a disproportionate burden. Daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) offers an HIV prevention option for AGYW at high risk who are unable to negotiate safer sex with male partners. Primary health care clinics (PHCCs) staffed by nurses are an important access point for health services, including antiretroviral treatment, f…
Written on the Skin
To address challenges associated with the uptake of daily oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by young women at high risk of acquiring HIV, a range of novel, long-acting, slow-release products are being developed and clinically evaluated. One such technology is an annual implant of tenofovir alafenamide (TAF). This study explores the perspectives of participants from a first-in-human trial of an annual TAF implant to inform considerations for fu…
“There is nobody who wouldn’t like to”
A novel long-acting HIV oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implant was first tested in a Phase I clinical trial in South Africa, and this study sought to understand motivations behind trial participants enrolment, highlighting considerations for recruitment in future studies. Qualitative research was conducted using in-depth interviews (IDIs) with 29 study participants, 18 of whom also participated in focus group discussions (FGDs). Participant…
Political science (11 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (6 obras) · Men who have sex with men (6 obras) · Pre-exposure prophylaxis (6 obras) · Public relations (6 obras) · Family medicine (5 obras) · Geography (5 obras)