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Papers

(The median citation count of Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Human immunodeficiency virus and mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: A systematic review and meta-analysis	35
HIV infection in Eastern and Southern Africa: Highest burden, largest challenges, greatest potential	18
Southern African guidelines on the safe, easy and effective use of pre-exposure prophylaxis: 2020	18
Ten years of nurse-initiated antiretroviral treatment in South Africa: A narrative review of enablers and barriers	14
World AIDS Day 2020: Reflections on global and South African progress and continuing challenges	13
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and associated factors among people living with HIV in the Middle East and North Africa region	11
Profile of presentation of HIV-positive patients to an emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa	9
Establishing targets for advanced HIV disease: A call to action	9
Ocular manifestations of people living with HIV in Tunisia	8
Uptake of the Ithaka mobile application in Johannesburg, South Africa, for human immunodeficiency virus self-testing result reporting	8
Undisclosed exposure to antiretrovirals prior to treatment initiation: An exploratory analysis	8
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society gender-affirming healthcare guideline for South Africa	7
Geographical variation in HIV testing in South Africa: Evidence from the 2017 national household HIV survey	7
Association between socio-economic factors and HIV self-testing knowledge amongst South African women	7
Earlier antiretroviral initiation is independently associated with better arterial stiffness in children living with perinatally acquired HIV with sustained viral suppression in Mozambique	6
Breaking the unbreakable: A paediatric case of dolutegravir resistance from KwaZulu-Natal	6
Access to HIV services and viral load suppression among children during the 90-90-90 strategy implementation in South Africa: A time series analysis	6
Immune activation and arterial stiffness in lean adults with HIV on antiretroviral therapy	5
Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake, adherence, and adverse events among South African men who have sex with men and transgender women	5
A trio of infectious diseases and pulmonary embolism: A developing world’s reality	5
Be legally wise: When is parental consent required for adolescents’ access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)?	5
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society guidelines for harm reduction	5
Factors associated with viral suppression among adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Free State province, South Africa	5
Depression, sleep quality and condom use amongst Iranian people living with human immunodeficiency virus	5
Derangement of protein S and C4b-binding protein levels as acquired thrombophilia in HIV-infected adult Nigerians	5

Low-level viraemia despite emergence of dolutegravir-resistant variants	5
Five years after Treat All implementation: Botswana’s HIV response and future directions in the era of COVID-19	4
Weight gain on dolutegravir: Association is not the same as causation	4
Evaluation of an SMS-based mHealth intervention to enhance early infant diagnosis follow-up testing and assessment of postnatal prophylaxis	4
Optimised paediatric antiretroviral treatment to achieve the 95-95-95 goals	4
Arterial stiffness is associated with oxidative stress and endothelial activation among persons with treated HIV in Zambia	4
COVID-19 and HIV viral load suppression in children and adolescents in Durban, South Africa	4
A rapid review and synthesis of the effectiveness of programmes initiating community-based antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa	3
A case series of emtricitabine-induced pure red cell aplasia	3
Predictors of low antiretroviral adherence at an urban South African clinic: A mixed-methods study	3
2023 Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Adult Antiretroviral Therapy Guidelines: What’s new?	3
Ethically acceptable consent approaches to adolescent research in South Africa	3
Incidence of hepatitis C virus infection among people living with HIV: An Egyptian cohort study	3
The prevalence and spectrum of mucocutaneous disease in South African people living with HIV and accessing care at a district-level hospital	3
Looking back at paediatric HIV treatment in South Africa. My, how we have grown!	3
Effect of obesity on dolutegravir exposure in Black Southern African adults living with HIV	3
Late-onset efavirenz toxicity: A descriptive study from Pretoria, South Africa	3
Bone outcomes in virally suppressed youth with HIV switching to tenofovir disoproxil fumarate	3
Urine lipoarabinomannan for rapid tuberculosis diagnosis in HIV-infected adult outpatients in Khayelitsha	3
Group counselling for adherence support among young people failing first-line antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe	3
Dolutegravir for second-line treatment: Programmatic implications of new evidence	3
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society 2022 guideline for the management of sexually transmitted infections: Moving towards best practice	3
HIV viral load suppression before and after COVID-19 in Kinshasa and Haut Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo	3
Antiretroviral therapy under the wing of the COVID-19 epidemic: One look, and different solutions	3
Cervical human papillomavirus prevalence, risk factors and outcomes in a cohort of HIV-infected women in Harare, Zimbabwe	3
Human immunodeficiency virus, diabetes mellitus and thyroid abnormalities: Should we be screening?	3
Utilisation of cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV at Kenya’s national referral hospital	3
Rechallenge after anti-tuberculosis drug-induced liver injury in a high HIV prevalence cohort	3
Emergent dolutegravir resistance in integrase-naïve, treatment experienced patients from Zimbabwe	3
Understanding patients reinitiating antiretroviral therapy in two South African districts	3
Sexual risk compensation following voluntary medical male circumcision: Results from a prospective cohort study amongst human immunodeficiency virus-negative adult men in Botswana	3
Continuous quality improvement in HIV and TB services at selected healthcare facilities in South Africa	3
Pharmacogenetics of tenofovir and emtricitabine penetration into cerebrospinal fluid	3
Erratum: Southern African HIV Clinicians Society 2022 guideline for the management of sexually transmitted infections: Moving towards best practice	2
Tracking adverse drug reactions and medication errors in the Central Chronic Medicine Dispensing and Distribution (CCMDD) programme in South Africa	2
Determinants of health-related quality of life in young adults living with perinatally acquired HIV infection in Botswana	2
Where are the children? Case finding in 5–14-year-olds living with HIV in Johannesburg	2
The influence of smoking and HIV infection on pulmonary function	2
The sexual and reproductive health needs of young people living with HIV in Gauteng, South Africa	2
Intracranial pressure management in patients with human immunodeficiency virus-associated cryptococcal meningitis in a resource-constrained setting	2
Digitally supported HIV self-testing increases facility-based HIV testing capacity in Ekurhuleni, South Africa	2
COVID-19 crisis effect on HIV service delivery in Egypt: Hard times or blessings in disguise?	2
Incidence of cardiometabolic diseases in a Lesotho HIV cohort: Evidence for policy decision-making	2
The association between serum vitamin D and body composition in South African HIV-infected women	2
Effect of a ward-based outreach team and adherence game on retention and viral load suppression	2
Age-related differences in the vascular function and structure of South Africans living with HIV	2
Estimating qualification and factors associated with third-line antiretroviral therapy referral in the Western Cape	2
Promises and potential pitfalls of long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis	2
Symptomatic gallstones and HIV in black South African women: Changing trends of gallstone disease?	2
CD4 testing after initiation of antiretroviral therapy: Analysis of routine data from the South African HIV programme	2

Human rights violations among men who have sex with men and transgender people in South Africa	2
Country ownership and sustainable programming of the HIV response in South Africa: A scoping review	2
The influence of HIV infection and antiretroviral treatment on pulmonary function in individuals in an urban setting in sub-Saharan Africa	2
Introduction to the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society harm reduction guidelines	2
The prevalence of multimorbidity in virally suppressed HIV-positive patients in Limpopo	1
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Guideline for the clinical management of syphilis	1
Multiple opportunistic infections (pulmonary tuberculosis, Mycobacterium avium complex and parvovirus B19) in a single patient	1
Nevirapine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome in children living with HIV in South Africa	1
COVID-19 severity and in-hospital mortality in an area with high HIV prevalence	1
Human rights violations among men who have sex with men and transgender people in South Africa	1
Confronting the human papillomavirus–HIV intersection: Cervical cytology implications for Kenyan women living with HIV	1
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in vertically acquired HIV and epidermodysplasia verruciformis	1
The clinical and demographic profile of women living with HIV admitted to the acute unit at Stikland Psychiatric Hospital	1
The prevalence of cervical abnormalities: Comparison of youth with perinatally acquired HIV and older women in Botswana	1
Predictors of impaired pulmonary function in people living with HIV in an urban African setting	1
Paediatric antiretroviral update	1
Impact of a delayed diagnosis of vulvar cancer and its association with HIV infection: A 4-year review at a tertiary hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	1
Southern African HIV Clinicians Society 2023 Guideline for post-exposure prophylaxis: Updated recommendations	1
Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis for sexually transmitted infections in South Africa	1
Clinical, radiological, and laboratory predictors of a positive urine lipoarabinomannan test in sputum-scarce and sputum-negative patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis in two Johannesburg hospital	1
Prevalence of incidental premature cardiac calcifications in an HIV-infected South African population using conventional computed tomography chest radiography	1
Comparative performance of cardiovascular risk prediction models in people living with HIV	1
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine August 2021	1
Indicator-focussed technical assistance in South Africa’s HIV programme: A stepped-wedge evaluation	1
Diminished health and social outcomes among men who have sex with men who use drugs in Zimbabwe	1