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The Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE) is a South African non-profit organisation working in the area of HIV/AIDS research, programme development and communication.


CADRE is committed to fast-tracking appropriate and effective responses to HIV/AIDS through informing policy and developing coherent strategic models for interventions. CADRE works in sub-Saharan Africa with a primary focus on southern Africa.


Our work includes:

  • HIV/AIDS policies, strategies, models and interventions
  • Qualitative and quantitative epidemiological,
    socio-behavioural and communications surveys
  • Monitoring and evaluation of HIV/AIDS interventions
  • Communications research and interventions

CADRE strives to place key HIV/AIDS research in the public domain. Our website provides access to a wide range of contemporary HIV/AIDS research, conference papers, communication materials and links to HIV/AIDS organisations.

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Synthesis on research on prevention of sexual transmission of HIV in South Africa

Submitted by cadre-editor on Thu, 10/18/2012 - 11:27.
Date Published: 
2012 Jul 1
Authors: 
Kevin Kelly, Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, Rethabile Mashale, Nkhensani Nkwashu, & Ravikanthi Rapiti

The USAID Sexual HIV Prevention Programme (SHIPP) was designed in order to assist the Government of South Africa (GOSA) in implementing effective HIV combination-prevention programmes. The goal of this document is to provide a synthesis of what is known about the drivers of HIV infection and an understanding of HIV prevention needs, opportunities, challenges and priorities – for South Africa (SA) in general and for the three provinces of Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Mpumalanga in particular.

The document is presented in two sections. The first, entitled ‘Situation analysis’, consists of seven categories of information: 1. The changing profile of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, 2. The epidemiology of HIV in the three focal provinces, 3. The vectors of sexually transmitted HIV infection, 4. Patterns of sexual association driving HIV infection, 5. Social conditions driving HIV infection, 6. Nodes of high HIV incidence, 7. Economic and environmental factors underlying susceptibility to HIV transmission

The second section is an HIV-prevention response-analysis focusing on six categories of information: 1. Bio-medical approaches to the prevention of sexual transmission of HIV, 2. Social and behavioural change communication, 3. Behaviour change, 4. Effectiveness of responses relevant to specific population and age groups, 5. Coverage and effectiveness of responses relevant to most-at-risk populations, 6. Implementation and effectiveness of community and structural interventions

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