Working to Advance
Health Equity in Africa

Nosipho Makhakhe

  • PhD Student

Area of interest: Key populations, HIV prevention

Nosipho has a background in the social sciences. For her PhD, Nosipho will focus on the provision of PrEP to female sex workers in Durban, South Africa. She hopes to use her research findings to help create interventions that will improve health care access female sex workers and other key populations in South Africa and throughout the African continent.

Research outputs

Journal article

Makhakhe, N. MeyerWeitz, A. Sliep, Y. 2022. Motivating factors associated with oral pre-exposure prophylaxis use among female sex workers in South Africa. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(12), 2820-2833.