Rhian Twine

Dados Biográficos

ID3583368
NOMERhian Twine
PRENOMESRhian
SOBRENOMETwine
ASSINATURATWINE R
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0002-0766-6556
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS51
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES17
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2007
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H3

  • Developmental Trajectories of Transactional Sex and Age-Disparate Relationships During Adolescence

    Open AccessNivedita L Bhushan, Katherine B Rucinski et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2024

  • The use of monitoring data and community feedback mechanisms to increase HIV testing among men during a cluster-randomised community mobilisation trial in South Africa

    Rebecca West, Rhandzekile Mathebula et al.ARTICLEAfrican Journal of AIDS Research2023

    This short communication describes the development and implementation of a programme monitoring and feedback process during a cluster-randomised community mobilisation intervention conducted in rural Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Intervention activities took place from August 2015 to July 2018 with the aim of addressing social barriers to HIV counselling and testing and engagement in HIV care, with a specific focus on reaching men. Mul…

  • ‘Voice needs teeth to have bite’! Expanding community-led multisectoral action-learning to address alcohol and drug abuse in rural South Africa

    Open AccessLucia D’ambruoso, Denny Mabetha et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    There is limited operational understanding of multisectoral action in health inclusive of communities as active change agents. The objectives were to: (a) develop community-led action-learning, advancing multisectoral responses for local public health problems; and (b) derive transferrable learning. Participants representing communities, government departments and non-governmental organisations in a rural district in South Africa co-designed the …

  • Lessons from community participation in primary health care and water resource governance in South Africa

    Open AccessJennifer Hove, Lucia D’ambruoso et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

  • 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…

  • Developing stakeholder participation to address lack of safe water as a community health concern in a rural province in South Africa

    Open AccessJennifer Hove, Lucia D’ambruoso et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Despite legislative and policy commitments to participatory water governance in South Africa, and some remarkable achievements, there has been limited progress to improve the water infrastructure servicing in marginalized rural communities. Around five million South Africans still do not have access to safe water. OBJECTIVE: This paper seeks to understand and advance processes to engage multisectoral stakeholders to respond to lack of…

  • Adolescents’ understanding of obesity

    Open AccessTshegofatso Seabi, Tshegofatso M Seabi et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Levels of obesity are rising in South Africa, notably among adolescent females. Excessive energy-dense diets and physical inactivity are among the factors contributing to this increase. Given that these factors are largely behavioural, understanding young people's views of obesity can contribute to more targeted behavioural interventions. Yet little is known of how rural South African adolescents view obesity. OBJECTIVES: The aim of t…

  • Understanding non-communicable diseases

    Open AccessEilidh Cowan, Lucia D’ambruoso et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    Background: NCDs are non-infectious, long-term conditions that account for 40 million deaths per annum. 87% of premature NCD mortality occurs in low- and middle-income countries.Objective: The aims were:develop methods to provide integrated biosocial accounts of NCD mortality; and explore the practical utility of extended mortality data for the primary health care system.Methods: We drew on data from research programmes in the study area. Data we…

  • Deliberative engagement methods on health care priority-setting in a rural South African community

    Open AccessAviva Tugendhaft, Karen Hofman et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021

    Public engagement in priority-setting for health is increasingly recognized as a means to ensure more ethical, inclusive and legitimate decision-making processes, especially in the context of Universal Health Coverage where demands outweigh the available resources and difficult decisions need to be made. Deliberative approaches are often viewed as especially useful in considering social values and balancing trade-offs, however, implementation of …

  • Sleep and BMI in South African urban and rural, high and low-income preschool children

    Open AccessDale E Rae, Simone A Tomaz et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Shorter sleep is associated with a higher BMI z-score in South African preschoolers, despite high levels of PA, with UL children appearing to be particularly vulnerable

  • Examining Mediators of the Relationship Between Community Mobilization and HIV Incidence Among Young South African Women Participating in the HPTN 068 Study Cohort

    Open AccessAnna M Leddy, Torsten B Neilands et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

    We previously demonstrated that village community mobilization (CM) was associated with reduced HIV incidence among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa. Little remains known about the mechanisms linking CM to HIV incidence. Using longitudinal data from 2292 AGYW in the HPTN 068 cohort (2011-2017), we examined whether school attendance, pro-social engagement, and hope for the future mediated the relationship between CM and HIV …

  • Associations of Father and Adult Male Presence with First Pregnancy and HIV Infection

    Open AccessLisa Albert, Jessie K Edwards et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

  • Associations Between Key Psychosocial Stressors and Viral Suppression and Retention in Care Among Youth with HIV in Rural South Africa

    Open AccessLindsey M Filiatreau, Audrey Pettifor et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

    Despite improvements in access to antiretroviral treatment over the past decade, sub-optimal HIV care outcomes persist among youth with HIV (YWH) in rural South Africa. Psychosocial stressors could impede improved HIV treatment outcomes within this population. We linked self-reported psychosocial health and demographic data from a cross-sectional survey conducted among YWH aged 12-24 in rural South Africa to individual medical record data, includ…

  • Emotional Violence is Associated with Increased HIV Risk Behavior Among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women in the HPTN 068 Cohort

    Open AccessAnna M Leddy, Amanda Selin et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2021

    Limited research has explored how emotional intimate partner violence (IPV) shapes HIV risk behaviors. Using cross-sectional data from the HPTN 068 post-trial visit (N = 1942), we assessed the association between emotional IPV and its sub-domains (verbal abuse and threats) with condomless sex, transactional sex, and frequent alcohol use among young women in South Africa. In adjusted multivariable logistic regression models, any emotional IPV and …

  • Health Care Providers' Challenges to High-Quality HIV Care and Antiretroviral Treatment Retention in Rural South Africa

    Open AccessAimée Julien, Sibyl Anthieren et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2021Citada por: 2Referências: 48

    Provision of high-quality HIV care is challenging, especially in rural primary care clinics in high HIV burden settings. We aimed to better understand the main challenges to quality HIV care provision and retention in antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs in rural South Africa from the health care providers' perspective. We conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 23 providers from nine rural clinics. Using thematic and framework a…

  • Building cooperative learning to address alcohol and other drug abuse in Mpumalanga, South Africa

    Open AccessOladapo Oladeinde, Denny Mabetha et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    There is significant willingness and capacity among community stakeholders to work in partnership with authorities to address priority health concerns. As a process, participation can help to raise and frame issues, which may help to better inform action and encourage shared responsibility. Broader understandings of participation require reference to, and ultimately transfer of power towards, those most directly affected, developing community voi…

  • Screen Time and Sleep of Rural and Urban South African Preschool Children

    Open AccessSimone A Tomaz, Trina Hinkley et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    This study aimed to investigate the extent to which preschool children meet guidelines for screen time ( n = 27, urban low-income n = 96 and rural low-income n = 142) completed a questionnaire. Urban high-income children had higher rates of exceeding screen time guidelines (67.0%) than children from urban low-income (26.0%) and rural low-income (3.5%) settings. Most children (81.0%) met sleep guidelines on weekdays and on weekends (75.0%). More u…

  • Correlates of ART Use Among Newly Diagnosed HIV Positive Adolescent Girls and Young Women Enrolled in HPTN 068

    Open AccessLindsey M Filiatreau, Maya A Wright et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2020

  • 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, …

  • Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems

    Open AccessLaith Hussain‐Alkhateeb, Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2019

    Half of the world's deaths and their causes pass unrecorded by routine registration systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Verbal autopsy (VA) collects information on medical signs, symptoms and circumstances from witnesses of a death that is used to assign likely medical causes. To further contextualise information on mortality, understanding underlying determinants, such as logistics, barriers to service utilisation and heal…

  • HIV self-testing

    Open AccessTiarney D Ritchwood, Amanda Selin et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    NCT03162965 , registered 19th May 2017

  • Gender Norms and HIV Testing/Treatment Uptake

    Open AccessJulie Pulerwitz, Ann Gottert et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2019

    How does the endorsement of different dimensions of gender norms by men and/or women influence their use of HIV testing and antiretroviral treatment? This question was examined using data from a 2014 population-based survey of 1053 women and 1004 men, ages 18-49, in rural South Africa. We used a global measure for views toward gender norms (the GEM Scale), plus four subsets of scale items (all reliabilities ≥ 0.7). In multivariate analyses using …

  • Cross-sectional associations of physical activity and gross motor proficiency with adiposity in South African children of pre-school age

    Open AccessCatherine E Draper, Simone A Tomaz et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2019

    Objective The study aimed to investigate the relationship between physical activity, gross motor skills and adiposity in South African children of pre-school age. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting High-income urban, and low-income urban and rural settings in South Africa. Participants Children (3–6 years old, n 268) were recruited from urban high-income ( n 46), urban low-income ( n 91) and rural low-income ( n 122) settings. Height and weigh…