Publications
Browse our library of selected peer-reviewed journal articles and other publications authored and co-authored by Anova team members. These works share insights, innovations, and lessons learned from our programmes, contributing to the broader public health knowledge base.
Editorial & Commentary
- Securing our HIV response: The PEPFAR crisis in South Africa. South African Medical Journal. 2025.
Health Systems Strengthening
- Outcomes of a model integrating tuberculosis testing into COVID-19 services in South Africa. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine. 2022.
- Indicator-focussed technical assistance in South Africa’s HIV programme: A stepped-wedge evaluation. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2021.
- Targeted mentoring for human immunodeficiency virus programme support in South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2019.
HIV Prevention
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis persistence at two sites in an integrated primary health care programme in South Africa. Frontiers in Public Health. 2025.
HIV Testing, Linkage & Re-engagement
- Behaviourally-Informed Two-Way Text Messaging to Improve Return to HIV Care in South Africa: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial. AIDS and Behavior. 2025.
- Factors influencing the implementation of a guideline for re-engagement in HIV care in primary care settings in Johannesburg, South Africa: A qualitative study. PLOS Global Public Health. 2024.
- The heterogeneity among people re-engaging in HIV care in South Africa. Journal of the International AIDS Society. 2024.
- Results of the Sukuma Ndoda (“Stand up, Man”) HIV self-screening and assisted linkage to care project in Johannesburg: a quasi-experimental pre-post evaluation. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2024.
- Outcomes of a model for re-testing HIV-negative index contacts in Sedibeng, South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2023.
- Why do patients interrupt and return to antiretroviral therapy? Retention in HIV care from the patient’s perspective in Johannesburg, South Africa. PLOS ONE. 2021.
- CD4 testing after initiation of antiretroviral therapy: Analysis of routine data from the South African HIV programme. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2020.
HIV Treatment, Retention & Resistance
- Differentiated service delivery to improve antiretroviral distribution: implementation in five districts of South Africa. African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine. 2025.
- Effect of case management on viral load in adult clients enrolled due to non-suppression in Capricorn District, South Africa. PLOS ONE. 2025.
- Enhancing antiretroviral therapy initiation for hospitalized and recently discharged people living with HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa. Global Health: Science and Practice. 2025.
- Programmatic outcomes of adolescents in differentiated service delivery models in South Africa. Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases.
- A randomised trial of “Fresh Start” text messaging to improve return to care in people living with HIV who missed appointments in South Africa. AIDS. 2024.
- Understanding patients reinitiating antiretroviral therapy in two South African districts. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2022.
- Supporting retention in HIV care through a holistic, patient-centred approach: a qualitative evaluation. BMC Psychology.
- Targeted mentoring for human immunodeficiency virus programme support in South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine.
Key Populations
- The treatment gap and the HIV care continuum for cisgender men who have sex with men in three South African cities: Findings from a biobehavioural survey, 2019. PLOS Global Public Health. 2025.
- The accuracy of HIV rapid testing in integrated bio-behavioral surveys of MSM across five provinces in South Africa. Medicine (Baltimore). 2017.
- Anova Health Institute’s harm reduction initiatives for people who use drugs. Sexual Health. 2018.
- Estimating the population size of female sex workers in three South African cities. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 2018.
- The Mpumalanga Men’s Study (MPMS): Baseline biological and behavioral HIV survey in MSM. PLOS ONE. 2014.
- Towards MSM-appropriate health services in South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2013.
- HIV risk and prevention among MSM in peri-urban townships in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS and Behavior. 2013.
Maternal & Child Health
- Adherence to HIV vertical transmission prevention (VTP) policies in a tertiary-level obstetric unit in South Africa. Obstetric Medicine. 2025.
- Using fatherhood to engage men in HIV services via maternal, neonatal and child health entry points in South Africa. PLOS ONE. 2024.
- A single question on maternal HIV status can improve identification of children living with HIV in South Africa. The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2023.
- Dolutegravir resistance in three pregnant and breastfeeding women in South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2023.
- Postnatal clubs for integrated postnatal care in Johannesburg, South Africa: a qualitative assessment of implementation. BMC Health Services Research. 2022.
- Risk profile of postnatal women and their babies attending a rural district hospital in South Africa. Frontiers in Global Women’s Health. 2022.
- Outcomes of a Telephonic Postnatal Intervention for Mothers and Babies in Mopani District, Limpopo, South Africa. Frontiers in Global Women’s Health. 2022.
- High rate of loss to follow-up and virological non-suppression in HIV-infected children on antiretroviral therapy highlights the need to improve quality of care in South Africa. Epidemiology & Infection. 2021.
- Implementation of a PMTCT programme in a high HIV prevalence setting in Johannesburg, South Africa: 2002–2015. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2020.
Mental Health
Workplace wellbeing among health care workers providing HIV services in primary care in Johannesburg: A mixed-methods study. Frontiers in Public Health. 2023.
Sexual Health & STIs
- Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa. Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine. 2023.
- A cross-sectional analysis of gonococcal and chlamydial infections among men who have sex with men in Cape Town, South Africa. PLOS ONE. 2015.