Pinky Kunene

Biographic Data

ID1446109
NAMEPinky Kunene
GIVEN NAMESPinky
FAMILY NAMEKunene
SIGNATUREKUNENE P
AFFILIATIONSCentre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Acceptability of HIV self-testing among men and women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Charlene Harichund, Mosa Moshabela et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2019

    Successful implementation of Universal Test and Treat as a strategy to achieve the 90-90-90 target requires higher HIV testing rates. Currently, uptake of HIV testing is not optimal which has directed research initiatives towards identification of additional HIV testing methods. HIV self-testing (HIVST) has received growing attention as a complementary testing approach as it overcomes barriers that are commonly associated with current HIV testing…

  • Exploring factors that influence the integration of HIVST with HCT using a qualitative comparative cross-over design in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

    Open AccessCharlene Harichund, Quarraisha Abdool Karim et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2019

    The World Health Organization recommends using HIV self-testing (HIVST) to improve HIV testing coverage by integrating self-testing for HIV into public domain primary healthcare (PHC) clinics in areas with a high burden of HIV. However, an understanding of the relationship and interaction between HIVST and the standard HIV counselling and testing (HCT), the primary HIV testing approach within public PHC clinics, is limited. We therefore sought to…

  • Feasibility of HIV self-testing

    Charlene Harichund, Pinky Kunene et al.ARTICLEAfrican Journal of AIDS Research2019

    HIV status awareness is a rate limiting step in HIV treatment and prevention initiatives aimed at addressing the global HIV epidemic. Uptake of HIV testing remains suboptimal despite global campaigns aimed at improving uptake. HIV self-testing (HIVST) displays the potential to increase uptake of HIV testing in public health care facilities, which are the main access points for HIV testing, but evidence to support this notion is limited. Therefore…

  • HIV self-testing as part of a differentiated HIV testing approach

    Open AccessCharlene Harichund, Quarraisha Abdool Karim et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    As treatment and prevention efforts expand, the reasons for and frequency of testing is changing and there is a need to develop differentiated models for providing HIV testing services to meet client's needs. HIV self-testing is an important addition to enhance HIV testing efforts and should be offered in combination with HCT

  • Understanding safe sex

    Anna Harrison, Abigail Harrison et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2001Cited by: 19References: 15

    In South Africa's HIV/AIDS epidemic, young people, especially women, are at high risk due to an apparent gap between awareness and practice. In repeated peer group discussions with girls aged 14-15 and boys aged 16-19, we explored influences on safe sex behaviour. Separate male and female safe sex paradigms emerged, with boys less likely to perceive themselves as 'at risk' and more likely to use condoms. Girls had not used condoms, would have pre…

  • Exploring Traditional Leadership

    Pinky KuneneARTICLEAgenda1995

    Pinky Kunene explores the role of women in traditional Zulu culture and explains how certain traditions and power relations are changing due to white cultural influences. She believes that rural women are no more oppressed than women in general and warns against interpreting their oppression from an outsider's perspective and imposing foreign viewpoints on them