Topic / Sub-Saharan Africa
Projects
- IBIS: Transformative approaches to rapidly and efficiently test demand creation interventions to promote HIV retesting in adults at increased risk of HIVKenya and Uganda
- Owete: Self-test strategies and linkage incentives to improve ART and PrEP uptake in menKisumu, Kenya
- PROTECT: Inoculating and boosting against HIV vaccine misinformation among adolescent girls and young women in South AfricaJohannesburg, South Africa
- Improving HIV testing, linkage, and retention in care for men through U=U messaging in South AfricaEast London and Cape Town, South Africa
- The Effects of Large-Scale, Government-Led Cash Transfer Programs on Health Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- Akiba: A savings intervention to reduce men’s engagement in HIV risk behaviorsKisumu, Kenya
- Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U) Messaging Increases Uptake of HIV Testing Among Men: Results from a Pilot Cluster Randomized TrialCape Town, South Africa
- Secondary Distribution of HIV Self-tests: an Innovative Strategy for Promoting Partner Testing and Reducing HIV RiskKisumu, Kenya
- Indlela: Behavioural Insights for Better HealthJohannesburg, South Africa
Featured Publications
- Mobile delivery of COVID-19 vaccines improved uptake in rural Sierra LeoneNature (2024)
- A Systematic Review of Peer Support Interventions for Adolescents Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan AfricaAIDS Patient Care and STDs (2023)
- Improving HIV testing, linkage, and retention in care among South African men through U= U messaging: A study protocol for two sequential hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trials.BMC Public Health (2023)
- Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine uptake among adults in South Africa: multimethod evidence from a population-based longitudinal studyBMJ Global Health (2023)
- Maximising the value of nudge units for global healthThe Lancet Global Health (2023)
- The effects of cash transfers on adult and child mortality in low- and middle-income countriesNature (2023)
- Longitudinal changes in COVID-19 vaccination intent among South African adults: evidence from the NIDS-CRAM panel survey, February to May 2021BMC Public Health (2023)
- Adaptive Strategies for Retention in Care among Persons Living with HIVNEJM Evidence (2023)
- A savings intervention to reduce men’s engagement in HIV risk behaviors: study protocol for a randomized controlled trialTrials (2022)
- A quasi-experimental cohort study evaluating a conditional economic incentive on first-dose COVID-19 vaccination rates among older adults in South AfricaBMJ Global Health (2022)
- Planning and commitment prompts to encourage reporting of HIV self-test results: A cluster randomized pragmatic trial in Tshwane District, South AfricaPLOS Global Public Health (2022)
- Incentives to promote accessing HIV care and viral suppression among HIV self-screening test users who obtain a reactive resultFrontiers in Reproductive Health (2022)
- Adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among women at high risk of HIV infection in Kenya.PLOS ONE (2022)
- Adoption of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among women at high risk of HIV infection in KenyaPLOS one (2022)
- The effects of cash transfer programmes on HIV-related outcomes in 42 countries from 1996 to 2019Nature Human Behaviour (2022)
- Detailed Geographic Information, Conflict Exposure, and Health ImpactsWorld Development (2022)
- Trends in Transactional Sex Among Women at Risk for HIV in Rural Kenya During the First Year of the COVID-19 PandemicJAMA Network Open (2022)
- Testing a social network approach to promote HIV self-testing and linkage to care among fishermen at Lake Victoria: study protocol for the Owete cluster randomized controlled trialTrials (2022)
- Effect of universal HIV testing and treatment on socioeconomic wellbeing in rural Kenya and Uganda: a cluster-randomised controlled trialThe Lancet Global Health (2022)
- The effect of providing women sustained access to HIV self-tests on male partner testing, couples testing, and HIV incidence in Kenya: a cluster-randomised trialThe Lancet HIV (2021)
- Behavioural science to improve effectiveness of HIV programmes, South AfricaBulletin of the WHO (2021)
- Participatory Prototyping of a Tailored Undetectable Equals Untransmittable Message to Increase HIV Testing Among Men in Western Cape, South AfricaAIDS Patient Care and STDs (2021)
- ‘When I have these kits … I have confidence’ – HIV self-testing provides agency for women in their sexual decision-makingGlobal Public Health (2021)
- Health and Economic Outcomes Associated With COVID-19 in Women at High Risk of HIV Infection in Rural KenyaJAMA Network Open (2021)
- Undetectable = Untransmittable (U = U) Messaging Increases Uptake of HIV Testing Among Men: Results from a Pilot Cluster Randomized TrialAIDS and Behavior (2021)
- HIV testing approaches to reach the first UNAIDS 95% target in sub-Saharan AfricaThe Lancet HIV (2021)
- Financial incentives for achieving and maintaining viral suppression among HIV-positive adults in Uganda: a randomised controlled trialThe Lancet HIV (2019)
- The US President's Malaria Initiative and under-five child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.PLOS Medicine (2017)
- A qualitative study of secondary distribution of HIV self-test kits by female sex workers in KenyaPLOS ONE (2017)
News
- Alison Buttenheim, Harsha Thirumurthy, and two colleagues from Wits University in South Africa published a commentary in The Lancet Global Health - Maximising the value of nudge units for global health. The commentary reflects on the work of the Indlela nudge unit in South Africa over the past three years. It also addresses the need for nudge units and behavioral scientists engaged in global health research to invest in strengthening local capacity.The Lancet Global Health · Harsha Thirumurthy · Alison Buttenheim
- BEGIN Lab Co-Director Alison Buttenheim co-authors the Indlela NUDGE Handbook, a practical guide to applying behavioral insights to challenges in HIV service deliveryIndela · Alison Buttenheim