• Short-Term Rentals and the Residential Housing System: Lessons from Berlin

  Crowe, Adam (2021)

  The increasing professionalisation of Airbnb-style short-term rentals has emerged within a grey space between residential housing and hotel accommodation. Subsequently, an array of contestations have arisen, due in no ...
• Social service offices as a point of entry into substance abuse treatment for poor South Africans

  Burnhams, N.H.; Dada, S.; Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn (2012)

  Background: In South Africa, district social service offices are often the first point of entry into the substance abuse treatment system. Despite this, little is known about the profile of people presenting with ...
• A brief intervention for drug use, sexual risk behaviours and violence prevention with vulnerable women in South Africa: A randomised trial of the Women's Health CoOp

  Wechsberg, W.M.; Jewkes, R.; Novak, S.P.; Kline, T.; Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn ; Browne, F.A.; Carney, T.; Lopez, A.A.M.; Parry, C. (2013)

  Objective: To assess the impact of the Women's Health CoOp (WHC) on drug abstinence among vulnerable women having HIV counselling and testing (HCT). Design: Randomised trial conducted with multiple follow-ups. Setting: ...
• Barriers to alcohol and other drug treatment use among Black African and Coloured South Africans

  Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn (2013)

  Background: There are racial disparities in the use of alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment services in South Africa but little is known about the factors contributing to these disparities. This study aimed to redress ...
• Availability of HIV prevention and treatment services for people who inject drugs: Findings from 21 countries

  Petersen, Z.; Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn ; van Hout, M.C.; Plüddemann, A.; Parry, C. (2013)

  Background: About a third of the global HIV infections outside sub-Saharan Africa are related to injecting drug use (IDU), and this accounts for a growing proportion of persons living with HIV. This paper is a response ...
• Correlates of substance abuse treatment completion among disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa

  Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn ; Pasche, S.; Adam, M. (2010)

  Background: Completion of substance abuse treatment is a proximal indicator of positive treatment outcomes. To design interventions to improve outcomes, it is therefore important to unpack the factors contributing to ...
• Cocaine treatment admissions at three sentinel sites in South Africa (1997-2006): findings and implications for policy, practice and research.

  Parry, C.D.H.; Plüddemann, A.; Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn (2007)

  BACKGROUND: Accurate prevalence data on cocaine use, that points to where problems exist and the extent of these problems, is necessary to guide the formulation of effective substance abuse policy and practice. The purpose ...
• Ethnic differences in alcohol and drug use and related sexual risks for HIV among vulnerable women in Cape Town, South Africa: Implications for interventions

  Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn ; Kline, T.L.; Browne, F.A.; Carney, T.; Parry, C.; Johnson, K.; Wechsberg, W.M. (2013)

  Background: Alcohol and other drug (AOD) use among poor Black African and Coloured women in South Africa compounds their sexual risk for HIV. Given South Africa's history of ethnic disparities, ethnic differences in sex ...
• Effect of Hazardous Alcohol Use During Pregnancy on Growth Outcomes at Birth: Findings from a South African Cohort Study

  Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn ; Koen, N.; Donald, K.A.; Nhapi, R.T.; Workman, L.; Barnett, W.; Hoffman, N.; Koopowitz, S.; Zar, H.J.; Stein, D.J. (2018)

  Background: Cohort studies have noted associations between hazardous alcohol use during pregnancy and infant growth outcomes, but many have not controlled for potential psychosocial confounders. To assess the unique ...
• Development of a trauma-informed substance use and sexual risk reduction intervention for young South African women

  Myers-Franchi, Bronwyn ; Carney, T.; Browne, F.A.; Wechsberg, W.M. (2018)

  Purpose: To develop a trauma-informed substance use and sexual risk reduction intervention for young South African women at risk of HIV. Patients and methods: Guided by the ADAPT-ITT framework for intervention development, ...

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