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Nwabisa Shai
Researcher at South African Medical Research Council
Publications - 37
Citations - 2251
Nwabisa Shai is an academic researcher from South African Medical Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Domestic violence & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1837 citations. Previous affiliations of Nwabisa Shai include University of the Witwatersrand & Medical Research Council.
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Intimate partner violence, relationship power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study
TL;DR: Relationship power inequity and intimate partner violence increase risk of incident HIV infection in young South African women and policy, interventions, and programmes for HIV prevention must address both of these risk factors and allocate appropriate resources.
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Associations between depressive symptoms, sexual behaviour and relationship characteristics: a prospective cohort study of young women and men in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
TL;DR: Symptoms of depression should be considered as potential markers of increased HIV risk and this association may be causal, as HIV prevention needs to encompass promotion of adolescent mental health.
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Pathways between childhood trauma, intimate partner violence, and harsh parenting: findings from the UN Multi-country Study on men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific.
Emma Fulu,Stephanie S. Miedema,Tim Roselli,Sarah McCook,Ko Ling Chan,Regine Haardörfer,Rachel Jewkes,Xian Warner,James Lang,Ruchira Tabassum Naved,Hamidul Huque,Subrina Farah,Muhammad Mizanur Rashid Shuvra,Arthur Erken,Wang Xiangxian,Fang Gang,Li Hongtao,Zeljka Mudrovcic,Wen Hua,Arie Hoekman,Elina Nikulainen,Bernard Coquelin,Mariam Khan,Wenny Kusuma,Clara Magariño Manero,Freya Larsen,Saba Moussavi,Neloufer de Mel,Pradeep Peiris,Shyamala Gomez,Kamani Jinadasa,Yandisa Sikweyiya,Nwabisa Shai,Francesca Drapuluvik-Tinabar,Peterson Magoola,Anthony Agyenta,Thomas Shanahan,Tracy Vienings,Claudia García-Moreno,Raewyn Connell,Gary Barker,Alan Greig,Rahul Roy,Ravi Verma,Kalyani Menon Sen,Scott Johnson +45 more
TL;DR: There were significant, often gendered, pathways between men's and women's perpetration and experiences of childhood trauma, physical intimate partner violence, harsh parenting, and other factors.
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Transactional Sex and HIV Incidence in a Cohort of Young Women in the Stepping Stones Trial
TL;DR: Transactional sex with an on-going or once off partner elevates young women’s risk of HIV infection, and the need for structural interventions in HIV prevention, with a stronger focus on reducing transactional sex is supported.
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The Stepping Stones and Creating Futures intervention to prevent intimate partner violence and HIV-risk behaviours in Durban, South Africa: study protocol for a cluster randomized control trial, and baseline characteristics
Andrew Gibbs,Andrew Gibbs,Laura Washington,Samantha Willan,Nolwazi Ntini,Thobani Khumalo,Nompumelelo Mbatha,Yandisa Sikweyiya,Nwabisa Shai,Esnat Chirwa,Michael Strauss,Giulia Ferrari,Rachel Jewkes +12 more
TL;DR: This is one of the first large trials to prevent IPV and HIV-vulnerability amongst young women and men in urban informal settlements and has the ability to develop a stronger understanding of what works to prevent violence against women and the processes of change in interventions.