Nomhle Khoza

Biographic Data

ID3582206
NAMENomhle Khoza
GIVEN NAMESNomhle
FAMILY NAMEKhoza
SIGNATUREKHOZA N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0003-1312-7783
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS31
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Acceptability of an Integrated Model of Mental Health and PrEP Service Delivery for South African Adolescent Girls

    Open AccessLisa Mills, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2026

    Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) at elevated HIV risk often experience common mental disorders (CMD), which are linked to lower PrEP adherence. We piloted a CMD intervention, the Youth Friendship Bench SA (YFB), and delivered alongside PrEP to improve CMD symptoms and PrEP adherence among South African AGYW. From April 2023-February 2024, 116 AGYW (18-25 years) with CMD symptoms were randomized to YFB plus standard of care (SOC) or SOC alo…

  • Engagement of adolescent girls and young women into an early oral PrEP open-label study in Southern Africa

    Open AccessMiliswa Magongo, Nomsa Mhlanga et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02732730, 13 November 2018

  • Motivations for Starting and Stopping PrEP

    Open AccessLisa Mills, Nomhle Khoza et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2025

    Oral PrEP effectiveness depends on consistent use during periods of potential HIV exposure, but adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) find this challenging. Data on PrEP use decision-making and alignment with risk among AGYW are limited. From 2016 to 2018, we conducted in-depth interviews with participants in HPTN 082, an open-label PrEP study in South Africa and Zimbabwe, to explore reasons for PrEP starts, stops, and restarts. Of 60 PrEP acce…

  • Acceptability and Feasibility of Remote PrEP Visits for Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa

    Open AccessNomhle Khoza, Jennifer Velloza et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2025

  • The impact of conditional cash transfers for HIV prevention on peer relationships

    Open AccessNomhle Khoza, Makhosazane Nomhle Ndimande-Khoza et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    CCTs are currently being explored for HIV prevention among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Southern Africa. However, little is known about how CCT geared towards adolescents' influence peer relationships, despite evidence that peer relationships form a critical part of development in adolescence. This article presents findings from a qualitative study that explored CCT recipients' and non-recipients' perspectives on the impact of CCTs …

  • The sky is the limit; I am going there”

    Kaitlyn Atkins, Catherine Macphail et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2022

    Young women in South Africa face elevated risk of HIV infection compared to male peers. Cash transfers may mitigate their risk for HIV; however, there is limited understanding of mechanisms of impact. We explored hope as one potential mechanism. Longitudinal qualitative analysis was used to explore how cash transfer recipients in the HPTN 068 study conceptualised hope and how the intervention influenced their hope over time. We found the interven…

  • Exploring the feasibility and acceptability of integrating screening for gender-based violence into HIV counselling and testing for adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania and South Africa

    Open Accesson behalf of the EMPOWER study team, M Colombini et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Most stakeholders found GBV screening acceptable and feasible. Key principles that should be in place for young women to be asked safely about GBV during HIV counselling and testing included respect for confidentiality, a youth-friendly and non-judgmental environment, and a functioning referral network

  • Disclosure of PrEP use by young women in South Africa and Tanzania

    F Scorgie, Nomhle Khoza et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2021

    Investigating how young women disclose oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use is important given evidence that disclosure is associated with higher adherence. We report qualitative results on PrEP disclosure among young women in South Africa and Tanzania who participated in a PrEP demonstration project (EMPOWER). In total, 81 in-depth interviews were conducted with 39 young women aged 16-24 years-25 from Johannesburg and 14 from Mwanza-at appro…

  • The influence of HIV‐related stigma on PrEP disclosure and adherence among adolescent girls and young women in HPTN 082

    Open AccessJennifer Velloza, Nomhle Khoza et al.ARTICLEJournal of the International AIDS…2020

  • You talk about problems until you feel free”

    Open AccessDeborah Baron, F Scorgie et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Pan African Clinical Trials Registry PACTR202006754762723 , 5 April 2020, retrospectively registered

  • The effects of a cash transfer intervention on sexual partnerships and HIV in the HPTN 068 study in South Africa

    Marie C D Stoner, Kelly Kilburn et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2020

    Evidence on cash transfer interventions for HIV prevention in adolescent girls and young women is unclear and indicates that they may not work uniformly in all settings. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 22 girls and young women post-intervention to determine how a cash transfer study (HPTN 068) in South Africa was perceived to influence sexual behaviours and to explore mechanisms for these changes. Participants described how the interve…

  • Fostering gender equality and alternatives to violence

    Open AccessSarah Treves-Kagan, Suzanne Maman et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2020

    Gender-based violence and violence against children are significant problems in South Africa. Community mobilisation and gender-transformative programming are promising approaches to address and reduce violence. A quantitative evaluation of One Man Can, a gender-transformative community mobilisation programme in South Africa, found mixed results in increasing gender-equitable behaviours and reducing violence. To better understand these findings, …

  • Narrative sexual histories and perceptions of HIV risk among young women taking PrEP in southern Africa

    Open AccessF Scorgie, Nomhle Khoza et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Cited by: 2References: 1

  • Cash transfers for HIV prevention

    Open AccessCatherine Macphail, Nomhle Khoza et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    Clinicaltrials.gov NCT01233531 (1 Nov 2010). First participant enrolled 5 March 2011

  • Young women’s perceptions of transactional sex and sexual agency

    Open AccessMeghna Ranganathan, Catherine Macphail et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    This research underscores the need to recognise that transactional sex is embedded in adolescent romantic relationships, but that certain aspects make young women particularly vulnerable to HIV. This is especially true in situations of restricted choice and circumscribed employment opportunities. HIV prevention educational programmes could be coupled with income generation trainings, in order to leverage youth resilience and protective skills wit…

  • The effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence in young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068)

    Open AccessAudrey Pettifor, Catherine Macphail et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Global Health2016

    BACKGROUND: Cash transfers have been proposed as an intervention to reduce HIV-infection risk for young women in sub-Saharan Africa. However, scarce evidence is available about their effect on reducing HIV acquisition. We aimed to assess the effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence among young women in rural South Africa. METHODS: We did a phase 3, randomised controlled trial (HPTN 068) in the rural Bushbuckridge subdistrict in Mpum…

  • Process guidelines for establishing Intercoder Reliability in qualitative studies

    Open AccessCatherine Macphail, Nomhle Khoza et al.ARTICLEQualitative Research2016Cited by: 29References: 16

    Qualitative interviews are increasingly being utilized within the context of intervention trials. While there is emerging assistance for conducting and reporting qualitative analysis, there are limited practical resources available for researchers engaging in a group coding process and interested in ensuring adequate Intercoder Reliability (ICR); the amount of agreement between two or more coders for the codes applied to qualitative text. Assessi…