Jeremiah Chikovore
Founder
SSHIFTB
Senior Research Specialist
Human Sciences Research Council
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Jeremiah Chikovore is a Founder of SSHIFTB. He is Senior Research Specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council, in South Africa. Jeremiah is trained in Sociology and Public Health, and his work applies social science approaches to a range of health issues using a complexity and intersectionality lens. His areas of expertise include qualitative methods, masculinity and gender, healthcare access and care-seeking, TB and HIV, stigma, and youth and young people. He has worked in Zimbabwe, and more recently Malawi and South Africa. Jeremiah is a Founder and Director of SSHIFTB.
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TB and HIV stigma compounded by threatened masculinity: implications for TB health-care seeking in Malawi
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Engaging Men in TB Control Interventions
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Understanding the context of private general practitioners’ prescribing practices and patient management decisions in South Africa
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Chronic cough and its association with TB–HIV co-infection: factors affecting help-seeking behaviour in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Control, struggle, and emergent masculinities: a qualitative study of men’s care-seeking determinants for chronic cough and tuberculosis symptoms in Blantyre, Malawi
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“For a mere cough, men must just chew Conjex, gain strength, and continue working”: the provider construction and tuberculosis care-seeking implications in Blantyre, Malawi
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‘For a mere cough, men must just chew Conjex, gain strength, and continue working’: the provider construction and tuberculosis care-seeking implications in Blantyre, Malawi
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Treatment-Seeking for Tuberculosis-Suggestive Symptoms: A Reflection on the Role of Human Agency in the Context of Universal Health Coverage in Malawi
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TB and HIV stigma compounded by threatened masculinity: implications for TB health-care seeking in Malawi
Published November 2017. Objective To understand why men with tuberculosis...
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Missing men with tuberculosis: the need to address structural influences and implement targeted and multidimensional interventions
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Women and TB: a call to action
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Quality of care for tuberculosis and HIV in the private health sector: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study in South Africa
Published April 2021. Background South Africa has high burdens of...
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The trial of sending short message service multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patients in Indonesia: the chance to increase knowledge and motivation
Abstract Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) is a threat for the...
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Ending TB means responding to socially produced vulnerabilities of all genders
Tuberculosis (TB) affects close to 6 million men globally and...
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