The biobehavioral Women's Health CoOp in Pretoria, South Africa: study protocol for a cluster-randomized design.

ABSTRACT:

Background

South Africa has 6.4 million adults over the age of 15 living with HIV. Gender inequality issues continue to drive the HIV epidemic in South Africa, where Black African women bear the greatest HIV burden. Limited access to services; little capacity to negotiate sex and condom use; and other legal, social, and economic inequities make women highly vulnerable to HIV infection. Behavioral interventions have been shown to decrease risk behaviors, but they have been less successful in reducing HIV incidence. Conversely, biomedical prevention strategies have proven to be successful in reducing HIV incidence, but require behavioral interventions to increase uptake and adherence. Consequently, there is a need for integrated approaches that combine biomedical and behavioral inter

SUBMITTER: Wechsberg WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4287508 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature