Engaging the 'Missing Men' in the HIV Treatment Cascade: Creating a Tailored Intervention to Improve Men's Uptake of HIV Care Services in Rural South Africa: A Study Protocol

Oluwafemi Adeagbo; Kammila Naidoo

doi:10.3390/ijerph18073709

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Engaging the 'Missing Men' in the HIV Treatment Cascade: Creating a Tailored Intervention to Improve Men's Uptake of HIV Care Services in Rural South Africa: A Study Protocol

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Engaging the 'Missing Men' in the HIV Treatment Cascade: Creating a Tailored Intervention to Improve Men's Uptake of HIV Care Services in Rural South Africa: A Study Protocol

Oluwafemi Adeagbo and Kammila Naidoo

International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol.18(7), p.3709

04/01/2021

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18073709

PMCID: PMC8036538

PMID: 33918148

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Men, especially young men, have been consistently missing from the HIV care cascade, leading to poor health outcomes in men and ongoing transmission of HIV in young women in South Africa. Although these men may not be missing for the same reasons across the cascade and may need different interventions, early work has shown similar trends in men's low uptake of HIV care services and suggested that the social costs of testing and accessing care are extremely high for men, particularly in South Africa. Interventions and data collection have hitherto, by and large, focused on men in relation to HIV prevention in women and have not approached the problem through the male lens. Using the participatory method, the overall aim of this study is to improve health outcomes in men and women through formative work to co-create male-specific interventions in an HIV-hyper endemic setting in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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Title: Subtitle: Engaging the 'Missing Men' in the HIV Treatment Cascade: Creating a Tailored Intervention to Improve Men's Uptake of HIV Care Services in Rural South Africa: A Study Protocol
Creators: Oluwafemi Adeagbo - Africa Health Research Institute
Kammila Naidoo - University of Johannesburg
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: International journal of environmental research and public health, Vol.18(7), p.3709
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18073709
PMID: 33918148
PMCID: PMC8036538
NLM abbreviation: Int J Environ Res Public Health
ISSN: 1661-7827
eISSN: 1660-4601
Publisher: Mdpi
Number of pages: 8
Grant note: 201433/Z/16/Z / Wellcome Trust Strategic Core Award 120391 / South African National Research Foundation (NRF); National Research Foundation - South Africa
Language: English
Date published: 04/01/2021
Academic Unit: Community and Behavioral Health
Record Identifier: 9984274666102771

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