Publications

Chapters in books

Heunis JC, Wouters E & Kigozi NG

HIV, AIDS and tuberculosis in South Africa: trends, challenges and responses. In Van Rensburg HCJ (Ed.).Health and health care in South Africa (2nd ed.). Pretoria: Van Schaik. (pp. 293-360).

Articles

Meulemans H

Impact of community-based support services on antiretroviral treatment programme delivery and outcomes in resource-limited countries: a synthetic review. BMC Health Services Research 12(2102), 194.

Wouters E

Life with HIV as a chronic illness: a theoretical and methodological framework for antiretroviral treatment studies in resource-limited settings. Social Theory and

Health 10(4): 368-391.

Wouters E, Booysen FlR, Ponnet K & Van Loon F

Wording effects and the factor structure of the hospital anxiety & depression scale in HIV/AIDS patients on antiretroviral treatment in South Africa. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34881.

De Wet K, Wouters E & Engelbrecht MC?
Exploring task-shifting practices in antiretroviral treatment facilities in the Free State Province, South Africa. Journal of Public Health Policy 32, S1: S94-101 (doi:10.1057/jphp.2011.30).

Heunis JC, Wouters E, Norton WE, Engelbrecht MC, Kigozi NG, Sharma A & Ragin C
Patient- and delivery-system factors related to acceptance of HIV counseling and testing services among TB patients in South Africa: A qualitative study with community health workers and program managers. Implementation Science 6:27 (doi:10.1186/1748-5908-6-27).

Heunis C, Wouters E, Kigozi G, Engelbrecht M, Tsibolane Y, Van der Merwe S & Motlhanke S
Accuracy of tuberculosis routine data and nurses’ views of the TB-HIV information system in the Free State, South Africa. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care 22(1): 67-73 (doi:10.1016/j. jana.2010.06.003).

Kigozi NG, Heunis JC & Van den Berg HS
Tuberculosis patients’ perspectives on HIV counseling by lay counsellors vis-à-vis nurses: an exploratory study in two districts of the Free State Province, South Africa. Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery 13(1): 71-80 (ISSN: 16825055).

Kigozi NG, Heunis JC, Wouters E & Van den Berg HS
Tuberculosis patients’ reasons for, and suggestions to address, non-uptake of HIV testing: a cross-sectional study in the Free State Province, South Africa. BMC
Health Services Research 11:110 (doi:10.1186/1472- 6963-11-110).

Pienaar A, Swanepoel Z, Van Rensburg D & Heunis C
A qualitative exploration of resilience in preadolescent AIDS orphans living in a residential care facility. Journal of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance 8(3): 128-137 (doi: 10.1080/1729037 6.2011.9724995).

Rau A, Coetzee JK & Vice A
Narrating student life in a time of risk. Forum: Qualitative Social Research VI(3): 81-98 (published late December 2010).

Uebel KE, Fairall LR, Van Rensburg D, Mollentze WF, Bachmann MO, Lewin S, Zwarenstein M, Colvin CJ, Georgeu D, Mayers P, Faris GM, Lombard C & Bateman ED
Task shifting and integration of HIV care into primary care in South Africa: the development and content of the streamlining tasks and roles to expand treatment and care for HIV (STRETCH) intervention. Implementation Science 6:86 (doi:10.1186/1748-5908- 6-86).

Wouters E, Heunis C, Michielsen J, Van Loon FB & Meulemans H
The long road to universal antiretroviral treatment coverage in South Africa. Future Virology 6(7): 801-812 (doi: 10.2217/fvl.11.56).

Presentations

• International

Jacobs N, Booysen F & Wouters E

Sexual abstinence and the protective role of bonding social capital among antiretroviral treatment (ART) patients in Free State, South Africa: a prospective cohort study. (Poster presentation), Abstract number A-452-0283-16839. XIX International AIDS Conference. Washington DC, United States of America, 22-27 July.

Liautaud A, O’Hara LM, Engelbrecht M, Rau A, Bryce EA, Nophale L, Spiegel J & Yassi A

Building capacity to design, implement and evaluate workplace-based HIV and tuberculosis programmes for the healthcare workforce: Evaluating the first two phases of a South African-Canadian Workplace based Training Program. (Oral presentation). Canadian Association for Research on Health (CARWH) Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 1-2 June.

Peters JA, Van der Walt M, Heunis JC, Baitsiwe PS & Osoba T

Barriers to implementing integrated TB/HIV service delivery in an antenatal care facility in Frances Baard District, Northern Cape, South Africa. (Oral presentation). Abstract no. OP-149-16 The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 16(12) Supplement 1: S207. 43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13-17 November.

Yassi A, Liautaud A, O’Hara L, Engelbrecht M, Rau A, Bryce E, Spiegel J, Nophale L & Uebel K

Building capacity to design, implement and evaluate workplace-based HIV and tuberculosis programmes for the Healthcare Workforce: Evaluating the first phase of a South African-Canadian Collaboration. (Oral presentation). International Commission on Occupational Health, Cancun, Mexico, 18-23 March.

Kigozi NG, Heunis JC & Engelbrecht MC
?TB patients’ reasons for, and suggestions to address, on-uptake of HIV testing in Free State, Republic of South Africa. 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health. Lille, France, 26-30 October. Abstract published in: The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 15(11) Supplement 3: S82.

Rau A & Kelly K
Findings from a study on men’s sexual and reproductive health: implications for HIV prevention communication. 1st International HIV Social Science and Humanities Conference. ICC Durban, 11-13 June.

• National

Brandsel L, Myeko N, Ntlola M, Tlhapuletsa F, Rau A & Khan R

Investigating Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) at Pelonomi Hospital in the Free State: Staff perceptions of OHS services, use of services for HIV and TB, and stigma in the workplace. (Poster presentation). Free State Provincial Department of Health Research Day, UFS, Bloemfontein, 7 June.

Heunis C, Engelbrecht M, Kigozi G & Wouters E

Acceptance of HCT services by TB patients: a qualitative study with CCGs and Programme Managers in two Free State districts. (Oral presentation). Free State Provincial Department of Health Research Day. Bloemfontein, 7 June.

Heunis C, Janse van Rensburg-Bonthuyzen E, Engelbrecht M, Kigozi G, Jacobs N, Wouters E & Van Rensburg D

The readiness of community caregivers to provide HCT services to TB patients in three local municipalities in the Free State. (Oral presentation). Symposium on Community Health Workers, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, 7 June.

Heunis C & Kigozi NG

Public health evaluation of training and mentoring interventions to improve TB patients’ uptake of HCT in the Free State: where are we now? (Oral presentation). Free State Provincial Department of Health Research Day, UFS, Bloemfontein, 7 June.

Kigozi NG, Heunis C & Engelbrecht MC

TB patients’ reasons for, and suggestions to address non-uptake of HIV testing in the Free State, Republic of South Africa. (Oral presentation). Free State Provincial Department of Health Research Day, UFS, Bloemfontein, 7 June.

Heunis C?
HIV testing of TB patients in the Eastern Free State. Research Cluster 2: Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation, Knowledge and Development: Research Showcase for the QwaQwa Region. QwaQwa Campus, UFS, 2 September.

Heunis C
A project to evaluate the effectiveness of policy-driven and evidence-based interventions to increase TB patients’ uptake of HIV testing: but is there an anomaly in the governing policies? Programme Governance & Political Transformation Research Seminar. Bloemfontein, Main Campus, UFS, 28-29 July.

Odegaard D, Heunis C, Motlhanke S, Van der Merwe S, Kigozi NG & Janse van Rensburg-Bonthuyzen E
Lessons learned from a protocol-in-process for a public health evaluation. American International Health Alliance HIV/AIDS Twinning Center 2011. Partners Meeting on Health and Social Service Professions Education. Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 20-22 June.

Study guidance

• Completed doctoral studies – with Supervisors

Wilke M

PhD (Nursing): Models of care for antiretroviral treatment delivery: a faith-based organisation's response. Prof Yvonne Botma (School of Nursing, UFS) and Prof Dingie van Rensburg (CHSR&D).

Kigozi NG
?PhD (Interdisciplinary): Facilitating factors and barriers to the uptake of HIV counselling and testing amongst tuberculosis patients in the Free State Province (South Africa). Profs JC Heunis and HCJ van Rensburg (both CHSR&D) and Dr HS van den Berg (Department of Psychology, UFS).

• Current doctoral studies – with Supervisors

Gill W

PhD (Development Studies): Understanding the impact of HAART on sexual behaviour in Botswana. Prof Christo Heunis (CHSR&D), Prof Lucius Botes (Faculty of the Humanities, UFS) and Dr Florence Tadi (Department of Psychology, UFS).

Jacobs N?
PhD (Development Studies): Individual and situational determinants of sexual risk behaviour during the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment in the Free State. Profs FlR Booysen (Department of Economics, UFS) and E Wouters (Department of Sociology and Research Centre for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, University of Antwerp).

Uebel K
PhD (Internal Medicine): Developing, implementing and evaluating a practical approach to integrating HIV care into primary health care services in the Free State. Profs WF Mollentze (Department of Internal Medicine, UFS) and HCJ van Rensburg (CHSR&D).

Wilke M
PhD (Nursing): Models of care for antiretroviral treatment delivery: a faith-based organisations’ response. Profs Y Botma (School of Nursing, UFS) and HCJ van Rensburg (CHSR&D).

• Completed master’s studies – with Supervisors

Hamayanda P

MDS: Defining the role of home-based caregivers in the era of ART: A case study of George Compound in Lusaka, Zambia. Ega Janse van Rensburg-Bonthuyzen (CHSR&D).

Kurian M

MDS: An appraisal of the National Inter-Governmental HIV and AIDS Research Collaboration Portfolio (NIHARCP). Prof Christo Heunis (CHSR&D).

Mkandawire EPG

MDS: Exploring perceptions of risk to HIV and sexual behaviour of traditionally circumcised men in Zomba District, Malawi. Andre Janse van Rensburg and Prof Christo Heunis (both CHSR&D).

Mpofu S

MDS: Exploring the meaningful involvement of people living with HIV and AIDS (MIPA) — and the effects of stigma and the capacity of people living with HIV/AIDS on MIPA — in Zimbabwe’s HIV response: the case of Central and Western Districts, Harare Province. Dr Asta Rau (CHSR&D).

Murandu C

MDS: Correlates of male participation in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programme at Seke North Clinic, Makoni Suburb, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. Prof Christo Heunis (CHSR&D).

Chabateni C?
MDS: Access to education from AIDS orphans’ perspective in John Howard-Chawama compound, Lusaka, Zambia. Dr. F Steyn (CHSR&D Research Associate, Department of Social Work & Criminology, University of Pretoria).

Muyunda L
MDS: Investigating current perceptions, attitudes and practices towards tuberculosis among people living with HIV and community care givers in Ngombe Compound in Lusaka, Zambia. Prof JC Heunis and Dr NG Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

Njoroge JW
MDS: The impact of clinical mentoring on access to HIV prevention, care and treatment services in Lesotho. Prof JC Heunis (CHSR&D).

Saka L
MDS: An exploration of the role of culture in antiretroviral therapy uptake: a case study of Mwanachingwala, Zambia. Prof JC Heunis and Dr NG Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

• Current master’s studies – with Supervisors

Khan R

MSc at UBC: Stigma: Barrier to uptake of HIV counselling and testing in occupational settings among healthcare workers in Free State Province, South Africa (Provisional title). Prof Annalee Yassi, Dr David Moore, Dr Jane Buxton (all UBC) and Dr Asta Rau (CHSR&D).

Maphosa T

MDS: Elimination of Paediatric HIV a reality? An interim assessment of the implementation of the PMTCT program in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Dr Asta Rau (CHSR&D).

Masango M

MDS: Sexuality education in the era of HIV/AIDS amongst adolescent girls: A case study of Zengeza

high school in Chitungwiza high density suburb of Zimbabwe. Dr Michelle Engelbrecht and Dr Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

Mashapa F

MDS: Reasons for low uptake by men of voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services in Swaziland: a case study of the New Start Programme. Master’s in Developmental Studies, Bloemfontein: UFS. Supervisors: Prof Christo Heunis and Dr Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

Mudekunye I

MDS: Pregnancy desires and fertility outcomes among adolescent HIV-infected women in Zimbabwe.

Dr Michelle Engelbrecht and Dr Gladys Kigozi (both CHSR&D).

Sibaya-Chimedza I

MDS: A case study evaluating the wife-accompaniment policy for long-distance truck drivers as a HIV and AIDS prevention strategy at Unifreight Pvt Ltd. in Zimbabwe. Prof Christo Heunis (CHSR&D).