The Relationship Between Harmful Alcohol Use and Antiretroviral Non-adherence in People Accessing HIV Treatment in Cape Town, South Africa: An Event-Level Analysis

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra L. Rose ◽  
Jennifer M. Belus ◽  
Tianzhou Ma ◽  
Jasper S. Lee ◽  
Christine Wan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Hiv Treatment ◽  
Harmful Alcohol ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Level Analysis

scholarly journals Spatial economic attributes of O.R. Tambo and Cape Town airport-centric developments in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masilonyane Mokhele
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Transportation Accessibility ◽  
Normative Models ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Background: The concentration of development around airports is a topical subject on the relationship between transportation, accessibility and the distribution of land use. Notwithstanding the existing literature on the analysis of airports and surrounds, and normative models of airport-led development, extensions are required on the empirical analysis of spatial economic attributes of airports and surrounds.Objectives: Objectives of the article were twofold: firstly, to establish the economic activity mix and reasons for the location of firms on and around O.R. Tambo and Cape Town international airports; and secondly, to analyse linkages between firms on and around the two airports as well as linkages those firms have with their metropolitan, regional, national and international contexts.Method: The article focused on the South African case studies of O.R. Tambo and Cape Town international airports and used a telephone survey as the primary data collection method.Results: The article discovered that the developments around O.R. Tambo and Cape Town international airports are spatial clusters that are also linked with other airports in South Africa and beyond.Conclusion: The article extended existing knowledge by providing insights on the spatial economic characteristics of airports and surrounds. The findings can be improved upon with work on other case studies, and potentially be used as bases for extending a theoretical framework that describes and explains the spatial economic forces that drive development on and around airports.

‘What will it take’: addressing alcohol use among people living with HIV in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 1049-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
K Sorsdahl ◽  
NK Morojele ◽  
CD Parry ◽  
CT Kekwaletswe ◽  
N Kitleli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Hiv Treatment ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Hiv Care ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Screening And Brief Intervention ◽  
Treatment Services ◽  
Living With Hiv

Given that hazardous and harmful alcohol use has been identified as a significant barrier to adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africa, alcohol reduction interventions delivered within HIV treatment services are being investigated. Prior to designing and implementing an alcohol-focused screening and brief intervention (SBI), we explored patients’ perceptions of alcohol as a barrier to HIV treatment, the acceptability of providing SBIs for alcohol use within the context of HIV services and identifying potential barriers to patient uptake of this SBI. Four focus groups were conducted with 23 participants recruited from three HIV treatment sites in Tshwane, South Africa. Specific themes that emerged included: (1) barriers to ART adherence, (2) available services to address problematic alcohol use and (3) barriers and facilitators to delivering a brief intervention to address alcohol use within HIV care. Although all participants in the present study unanimously agreed that there was a great need for SBIs to address alcohol use among people living with HIV and AIDS, our study identified several areas that should be considered prior to implementing such a programme.

The Kindness of Strangers: Single Mothers and the Politics of Friendship in Interwar Cape Town

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Will Jackson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Single Mothers ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The State ◽  
Welfare Work ◽  
Normative Standards ◽  
Welfare Workers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Just as a friend is often defined as somebody we like, friendship is thought of as a social, moral, and emotional good. The aura of friendship is in its virtue. But the meaning of friendship depends on who claims it and who the person appears to be whom they describe as their friend. This essay investigates the meaning of friendship in the lives of single mothers in South Africa between the two world wars. The context is Cape Town, where single mothers classified as “white” or “European” attracted the attention of the state. In case records pertaining to the 1913 Children’s Welfare Act, the meaning of friendship was contested between magistrates, police detectives, welfare workers, and single mothers themselves. The struggle over how a case should be resolved was to a great extent a struggle over the meaning of friendship. To the authorities, “friends” were a disturbing presence in the lives of single mothers. While the image of healthy, secure, and stable colonial family units was articulated around the relationship between a mother and a child, it was underwritten by the taken-for-granted presence of a male provider. Analyzing cases where men were in various ways absent forces our emphasis away from the normative standards that guided child welfare work and into the messier social realities against which those standards were applied.

scholarly journals Patterns of alcohol use and sexual behaviors among current drinkers in Cape Town, South Africa

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 492-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori A.J. Scott-Sheldon ◽  
Michael P. Carey ◽  
Kate B. Carey ◽  
Demetria Cain ◽  
Ofer Harel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Cape Town

scholarly journals Depression, alcohol use, and stigma in younger versus older HIV-infected pregnant women initiating antiretroviral therapy in Cape Town, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Wong ◽  
Landon Myer ◽  
Allison Zerbe ◽  
Tamsin Phillips ◽  
Greg Petro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Cape Town

scholarly journals Sounding the Cape: Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis-Constant Martin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Rhythmic Pattern ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Musical Styles

For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an ìidentityî which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social --in this case pseudo-racial --identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He demonstrates that musical creation in the Mother City, and in South Africa, has always been nurtured by contacts, exchanges and innovations whatever the efforts made by racist powers to separate and divide people according to their origin. Musicians interviewed at the dawn of the 21st century confirm that mixture and blending characterise all Cape Town's musics. They also emphasise the importance of a rhythmic pattern particular to Cape Town, the ghoema beat, whose origins are obviously mixed. The study of music demonstrates that the history of Cape Town, and of South Africa as a whole, undeniably fostered creole societies. Yet, twenty years after the collapse of apartheid, these societies are still divided along lines that combine economic factors and 'racial'categorisations. Martin concludes that, were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fighting these divisions and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of the violence of racism and apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.

Relationship between alcohol use disorders and suicidality in a psychiatric population

2004 ◽  
Vol 184 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annie McCloud ◽  
Ben Barnaby ◽  
Nicola Omu ◽  
Colin Drummond ◽  
Andy Aboud
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Misuse ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Admissions ◽  
Harmful Alcohol ◽  
Identification Test ◽  
Audit Score ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

BackgroundAlcohol misuse is a risk factor in suicide and parasuicide.AimsTo measure the prevalence of alcohol use disorders in a cohort of psychiatric admissions using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), and the relationship between the AUDIT score and suicidality.MethodConsecutive psychiatric admissions were interviewed with a lifestyle survey that included the AUDIT, and admission case notes were reviewed.ResultsOut of 200 subjects, 48.5% scored 8 or more (indicating hazardous or harmful alcohol use) and 22.5% scored 16 or more (indicating significant alcohol dependence) on the AUDIT. There were no significant gender differences. Alcohol misuse was strongly associated with suicidality.ConclusionsThe AUDIT questionnaire should be incorporated into psychiatric assessments when risk of self-harm is being evaluated. Further research is warranted to examine the impact of interventions for alcohol use disorders in psychiatric settings on self-harm and suicidal ideation.

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