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Audrey Pettifor

Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Verified email at email.unc.edu
Cited by 15062

Young people's sexual health in South Africa: HIV prevalence and sexual behaviors from a nationally representative household survey

AE Pettifor, HV Rees, I Kleinschmidt, AE Steffenson… - Aids, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of HIV infection, HIV risk factors, and exposure to
national HIV prevention programs, and to identify factors associated with HIV infection among …

[HTML][HTML] Sexual power and HIV risk, South Africa

AE Pettifor, DM Measham, HV Rees… - Emerging infectious …, 2004 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pettifor is research director of the Adolescent Health Research Programme at the
Reproductive Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her …

Rethinking the heterosexual infectivity of HIV-1: a systematic review and meta-analysis

KA Powers, C Poole, AE Pettifor… - The Lancet infectious …, 2008 - thelancet.com
Studies of cumulative HIV incidence suggest that cofactors such as genital ulcer disease,
HIV disease stage, and male circumcision influence HIV transmission; however, the …

Early age of first sex: a risk factor for HIV infection among women in Zimbabwe

AE Pettifor, A Van der Straten, MS Dunbar, SC Shiboski… - Aids, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To explore the relationship between early age of coital debut (15 years of age or
younger) and risk for HIV infection among sexually active urbanized Zimbabwean women. …

The role of acute and early HIV infection in the spread of HIV and implications for transmission prevention strategies in Lilongwe, Malawi: a modelling study

…, AC Ghani, WC Miller, IF Hoffman, AE Pettifor… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background HIV transmission risk is higher during acute and early HIV infection than it is
during chronic infection, but the contribution of early infection to the spread of HIV is …

Keep them in school: the importance of education as a protective factor against HIV infection among young South African women

AE Pettifor, BA Levandowski, C MacPhail… - International journal …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Objective To identify risk factors for HIV infection among young women aged 15–24 years
reporting one lifetime partner in South Africa. Design In 2003, we conducted a nationally …

[HTML][HTML] Contraception use and pregnancy among 15–24 year old South African women: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey

C MacPhail, AE Pettifor, S Pascoe, HV Rees - BMC medicine, 2007 - Springer
Background Adolescent reproductive health has not continued to receive the attention it
deserves since the start of the HIV epidemic. In South Africa, high numbers of adolescent …

Patient retention from HIV diagnosis through one year on antiretroviral therapy at a primary health care clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa

K Clouse, AE Pettifor, M Maskew… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To compare patient retention at 3 stages of pre-antiretroviral (ART) care and 2
stages of post-ART care to identify when greatest attrition occurs. Design: An observational …

[HTML][HTML] Cash transfers for HIV prevention: A systematic review

…, P Godfrey-Faussett, P Ghys, AE Pettifor - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Given the success of cash programs in improving health outcomes and
addressing upstream drivers of HIV risk such as poverty and education, there has been an …

[HTML][HTML] Is the sexual behaviour of young people in sub-Saharan Africa influenced by their peers? A systematic review

E Fearon, RD Wiggins, AE Pettifor… - Social Science & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa are highly vulnerable to HIV, other sexually transmitted
infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancies. Evidence for the effectiveness of individual …