Challenge of Evaluating a National HIV Prevention Programme: The Case of loveLife, South Africa

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Pettifor, Audrey E.; MacPhail, Catherine Lorne; Bertozzi, Stefano; & Rees, Helen V. (2007). Challenge of Evaluating a National HIV Prevention Programme: The Case of loveLife, South Africa. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 83(Suppl. 1), i70-4.

Abstract

Although 50% of all new global HIV infections occur among young people, our knowledge to date of the impact of adolescent HIV prevention interventions in developing country settings is limited. During 1999, a national HIV prevention programme for youth, called loveLife, was launched in South Africa. This paper describes the challenges faced in trying to evaluate such a national programme and the types of evidence that could be used to better understand the effect of programmes of national scale. A range of methods were planned to evaluate the programme, including national household surveys and programme monitoring data. Given the urgent need to scale-up programmes in an effort to reduce new HIV infections, a range of evidence should be assessed to measure the effect of large-scale, complex behavioural interventions as an alternative to randomised controlled trials.

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http://dx.doi.org/
10.1136/sti.2006.023689

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Journal Article

Year Published

2007

Journal Title

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Author(s)

Pettifor, Audrey E.
MacPhail, Catherine Lorne
Bertozzi, Stefano
Rees, Helen V.

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