Cohort profile: health and ageing in Africa: a longitudinal study of an indepth community in South Africa (HAALSI)

FX Gómez-Olivé, L Montana, RG Wagner… - International journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Study design HAALSI is a population-based community observational study with
longitudinal follow-up at 3-year intervals. Embedded in the study are several randomized …

Sexual behaviors and HIV status: a population-based study among older adults in rural South Africa

MS Rosenberg, FX Gómez-Olivé, JK Rohr… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To identify the unmet needs for HIV prevention among older adults in rural South
Africa. Methods: We analyzed data from a population-based sample of 5059 men and …

Chronic multimorbidity among older adults in rural South Africa

AY Chang, FX Gómez-Olivé, C Payne, JK Rohr… - BMJ global …, 2019 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction The rapid ageing of populations around the world is accompanied by increasing
prevalence of multimorbidity. This study is one of the first to present the prevalence of …

[HTML][HTML] Marginal structural models to assess delays in second-line HIV treatment initiation in South Africa

JK Rohr, P Ive, CR Horsburgh, R Berhanu, K Shearer… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background South African HIV treatment guidelines call for patients who fail first-line
antiretroviral therapy (ART) to be switched to second-line ART, yet logistical issues, clinician …

[HTML][HTML] Brief report: HIV incidence among older adults in a rural South African setting: 2010–2015

FX Gómez-Olivé, B Houle, M Rosenberg… - JAIDS journal of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Methods: We used a 2010–2011 cohort of HIV-negative adults in rural South Africa who
were 40 years or older at retest in 2015–2016 to estimate HIV incidence over a 5-year …

Depressive symptoms and their relation to age and chronic diseases among middle-aged and older adults in rural South Africa

P Geldsetzer, M Vaikath, R Wagner… - The Journals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Understanding how depression is associated with chronic conditions and
sociodemographic characteristics can inform the design and effective targeting of …

Telomere length, health, and mortality in a cohort of older Black South African adults

S Gao, JK Rohr, I de Vivo, M Ramsay… - The Journals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Telomere length (TL) may be a biomarker of aging processes as well as age-related
diseases. However, most studies of TL and aging are conducted in high-income countries …

Patterns of comorbidity and multimorbidity among middle-aged and elderly women in peri-urban Tanzania

LM Stieglitz, T Bärnighausen… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Multimorbidity poses an increasing challenge to health care systems in Sub-
Saharan Africa. We studied the extent of multimorbidity and patterns of comorbidity among …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between sleep parameters, non-communicable diseases, HIV status and medications in older, rural South Africans

FX Gómez-Olivé, JK Rohr, LC Roden, DE Rae… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
As part of the Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in
South Africa (HAALSI), we investigated sleep habits and their interactions with HIV or non …

Performance of self‐reported HIV status in determining true HIV status among older adults in rural South Africa: a validation study

JK Rohr, FX Gómez‐Olivé, M Rosenberg… - African Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Introduction: In South Africa, older adults make up a growing proportion of people
living with HIV. HIV programmes are likely to reach older South Africans in home-based …