Francesca Little

Datos Biográficos

ID7037697
NOMBREFrancesca Little
NOMBRESFrancesca
APELLIDOLittle
FIRMALITTLE F
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0002-5917-9928
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2002
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Are parenting programmes effective at scale? Associations with violence against adolescent girls, parenting and mental health in real-world delivery across eight African countries

    Open AccessLucie D Cluver, Christopher L Ward et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Evidence-based parenting programmes are widely used to prevent violence against children and improve parenting and mental health. Despite hundreds of randomised trials, little is known about their outcomes when delivered at scale within routine delivery. This study assesses the WHO-endorsed and UNICEF-endorsed Parenting for Lifelong Health programme for caregivers and adolescents, delivered through non-governmental organisation and …

  • Oral PrEP use among pregnant or parenting young women in South Africa

    Open AccessJenny Chen‐Charles, Jenny Chen-Charles et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2026

    Young women who are pregnant/parenting face elevated risk of early PrEP discontinuation. Differentiated, life-stage and youth-responsive interventions, such as counselling, partner involvement, and integration with maternal and child health, or sexual and reproductive health services, are critical to improving PrEP persistence among this priority population. This population should be prioritised in the rollout of long-acting PrEP formulations, wh…

  • Mean Length of Utterance

    Open AccessHeather Brookes, Patricia Makaure et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2025

    Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) has been widely used to measure children’s early language development in a variety of languages. This study investigates the utility of MLU to measure language development in four agglutinative and morphologically complex Southern Bantu languages. Using a variant of MLU, MLU3, based on the three longest sentences children produced, we analysed the utterances of 448 toddlers (16-32 months) collected using the MacArth…

  • FastPrEP

    Open AccessElzette Rousseau, Dvora Joseph Davey et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Adolescents and young people (AYP) are at increased risk of HIV acquisition and onward transmission in South Africa. The benefits of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are well established, however, epidemic impact depends on access, effective use and scale-up. FastPrEP is an implementation science project that aims to scale up oral and novel PrEP modalities through differentiated service delivery to improve uptake and optimal use of PrEP in ke…

  • PrEPared to choose

    Open AccessC Pike, Elzette Rousseau et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    This is a phase 3B clinical trial registered with the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (20230904). Ethical approval was granted by the Human Research Ethics Committee (Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, 567/2023). It is registered with the South African National Clinical Trial Registry (DOH-27-012024-5189, 26 January 2024) and ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT06807736, retrospectively registered on 4 February 2025)

  • Predictive Modelling of Postpartum Haemorrhage Using Early Risk Factors

    Open AccessShannon Holcroft, Innocent Karangwa et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024

    Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly in low-resource settings. This study aimed to develop a predictive model for PPH using early risk factors and rank their importance in terms of predictive ability. The dataset was obtained from an observational case-control study in northern Rwanda. Various statistical models and machine learning techniques were evaluated, including log…

  • A prospective randomised controlled trial investigating household Sars-CoV-2 transmission in a densely populated community in Cape Town, South Africa – the transmission of Covid-19 in crowded environm…

    Open AccessPhilip Smith, Francesca Little et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Participants had significant exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infections prior to the study. In this setting, household transmission mitigation was ineffective. However, CHWs may have facilitated other important healthcare and social referrals

  • Parenting for Lifelong Health for Young Children

    Open AccessChristopher L Ward, Inge Wessels et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2020

    Background Parenting programs suitable for delivery at scale in low‐resource contexts are urgently needed. We conducted a randomized trial of Parenting for Lifelong Health ( PLH ) for Young Children, a low‐cost 12‐session program designed to increase positive parenting and reduce harsh parenting and conduct problems in children aged 2–9. Methods Two hundred and ninety‐six caregivers, whose children showed clinical levels of conduct problems (Eybe…

  • Improving the accessibility of condoms in South Africa

    Landon Myers, L Myer et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2002

    Lack of access to condoms presents a fundamental barrier to HIV prevention across most of sub-Saharan Africa. One strategy to enhance the accessibility of condoms is to promote their informal distribution outside of health facilities through existing social networks. To investigate the prevalence and practices of informal condom distribution, we administered a questionnaire to individuals procuring condoms at 12 public health facilities in four r…