“I will take PrEP because that’s what will help me not to get infected with HIV”: barriers to and facilitators of pre-exposure prophylaxis and condom use among adolescent girls and young women enrolled in a school-based HIV prevention program in Sout
Barriers to condom use persist in South Africa, but positive attitudes toward PrEP described in this study suggest that opinions about PrEP are still forming and can be strongly influenced by youth-friendly HIV programming in schools.
Authors
- Nathanael van Blydenstein
- Nevilene Slingers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1670-1755)
- Kim Jonas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4469-6674)
- Nico A. Blom (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4823-6974)
- Fareed Abdullah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-9430)
- Catherine Mathews (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5368-1127)
- Zoe Duby (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7615-8152)
- Kate Bergh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5471-5819)
- Elona Toska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3800-3173)
- Ngkatiseng Mthanti
Institutions
- South African Medical Research Council (ZA)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- Oxford Policy Management (GB)
- Steve Biko Hospital (ZA)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Network of AIDS Researchers of Eastern and Southern Africa (KE)
- University of Pretoria (ZA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 2025-11-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1616261
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82