Barriers and facilitators to implementing an evidence-based woman-focused intervention in South African health services.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, numerous behavior change, risk-reduction, and biomedical interventions have been developed and tested. While some of these interventions have shown to be efficacious in randomized trials, it often takes almost two decades for an intervention to be translated into practice. Meanwhile, South Africa continues to have among the highest prevalence of HIV globally, with women of childbearing age bearing the burden of the epidemic. Given the urgency of the HIV epidemic among vulnerable women in South Africa, it is imperative that evidence-based interventions be implemented rapidly into practice. This study presents a first step toward examining the acceptability and feasibility of implementing the Women's Health CoOp (WHC) in clinics and substan

SUBMITTER: Howard BN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5697075 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature