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Joyce Wamoyi is affiliated with the Medical Research Council in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans social sciences, health professions, and medicine, with a focus on several subfields including general health professions, sociology and political science, safety research, infectious diseases, and clinical psychology.

The main topics of Joyce Wamoyi's work include:

  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Sex work and related issues
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence

Joyce Wamoyi has contributed to numerous publications. Recent papers include:

  • "Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration", 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Measurement and prevalence of sexual harassment in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis", 2021, BMJ Open
  • "Combining parenting and economic strengthening programmes to reduce violence against children: a cluster randomised controlled trial with predominantly male caregivers in rural Tanzania", 2020, BMJ Global Health
  • "Sexual health of adolescent girls and young women in Central Uganda: exploring perceived coercive aspects of transactional sex", 2020, Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
  • "COVID-19 social distancing measures and informal urban settlements", 2021, Bulletin of the World Health Organization

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Culture Health & Sexuality
  • Global Public Health
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • BMC Public Health
  • BMJ Global Health

Joyce Wamoyi often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Jamie M. Lachman
  • Yulia Shenderovich
  • Mwita Wambura
  • Mackenzie Martin
  • Ana Maria Buller

Best Publications

  • Revisiting the understanding of "transactional sex" in sub-Saharan Africa: A review and synthesis of the literature.

    Kirsten Stoebenau;Kirsten Stoebenau;Lori Heise;Joyce Wamoyi;Natalia Bobrova

  • “A bit more truthful”: the validity of adolescent sexual behaviour data collected in rural northern Tanzania using five methods

    M L Plummer;D A Ross;D Wight;J Changalucha

  • Parent-child communication about sexual and reproductive health in rural Tanzania: Implications for young people's sexual health interventions

    Joyce Wamoyi;Joyce Wamoyi;Angela Fenwick;Mark Urassa;Basia Zaba

  • Transactional sex amongst young people in rural northern Tanzania: an ethnography of young women's motivations and negotiation.

    Joyce Wamoyi;Daniel Wight;Mary Plummer;Mary Plummer;Gerry Hilary Mshana

  • Contradictory sexual norms and expectations for young people in rural Northern Tanzania

    Daniel Wight;Mary L. Plummer;Gerry Mshana;Joyce Wamoyi

  • Transactional sex and risk for HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    Joyce Wamoyi;Kirsten Stobeanau;Natalia Bobrova;Tanya Abramsky

  • Barriers to Accessing Antiretroviral Therapy in Kisesa, Tanzania: A Qualitative Study of Early Rural Referrals to the National Program.

    Gerry Hillary Mshana;Joyce Wamoyi;Joanna Busza;Basia Zaba

  • “Women’s Bodies are Shops”: Beliefs About Transactional Sex and Implications for Understanding Gender Power and HIV Prevention in Tanzania

    Joyce Wamoyi;Angela Fenwick;Mark Urassa;Basia Zaba;Basia Zaba

  • A process evaluation of a school-based adolescent sexual health intervention in rural Tanzania: the MEMA kwa Vijana programme

    Mary L Plummer;D Wight;A I N Obasi;J Wamoyi

  • Farming with Your Hoe in a Sack: Condom Attitudes, Access, and Use in Rural Tanzania

    Mary L. Plummer;Daniel Wight;Joyce Wamoyi;Gerry Mshana

  • Traditional healers, faith healers and medical practitioners: the contribution of medical pluralism to bottlenecks along the cascade of care for HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa.

    Mosa Moshabela;Dominic Bukenya;Gabriel Darong;Joyce Wamoyi

  • A review of interventions addressing structural drivers of adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health vulnerability in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for sexual health programming

    Joyce Wamoyi;Gerry Mshana;Aika Mongi;Nyasule Neke

  • Parental control and monitoring of young people's sexual behaviour in rural North-Western Tanzania: Implications for sexual and reproductive health interventions

    Joyce Wamoyi;Joyce Wamoyi;Angela Fenwick;Mark Urassa;Basia Zaba;Basia Zaba

  • 'She was bewitched and caught an illness similar to AIDS': AIDS and sexually transmitted infection causation beliefs in rural northern Tanzania

    Gerry Mshana;Mary L. Plummer;Joyce Wamoyi;Zachayo S. Shigongo

  • Are schools a good setting for adolescent sexual health promotion in rural Africa? A qualitative assessment from Tanzania

    Mary L Plummer;Mary L Plummer;D Wight;J Wamoyi;K Nyalali

  • The structural influence of family and parenting on young people's sexual and reproductive health in rural northern Tanzania.

    Joyce Wamoyi;Daniel Wight;Pieter Remes

  • 'The man who believed he had AIDS was cured': AIDS and sexually-transmitted infection treatment-seeking behaviour in rural Mwanza, Tanzania.

    Mary L. Plummer;Gerry Mshana;Joyce Wamoyi;Zachayo S. Shigongo

  • Cross-cultural research must prioritize equitable collaboration.

    Mark Urassa;David W. Lawson;Joyce Wamoyi;Eshetu Gurmu

  • Is transactional sex exploitative? A social norms perspective, with implications for interventions with adolescent girls and young women in Tanzania.

    Joyce Wamoyi;Lori Heise;Rebecca Meiksin;Nambusi Kyegombe

  • Aborting and Suspending Pregnancy in Rural Tanzania: An Ethnography of Young People's Beliefs and Practices

    Mary L. Plummer;Joyce Wamoyi;Kija Nyalali;Gerry Mshana

  • Perceived, anticipated and experienced stigma: exploring manifestations and implications for young people’s sexual and reproductive health and access to care in North-Western Tanzania

    Laura Nyblade;Melissa Stockton;Daniel Nyato;Joyce Wamoyi

  • "Driving the devil away": qualitative insights into miraculous cures for AIDS in a rural Tanzanian ward

    Maria Roura;Maria Roura;Ray Nsigaye;Benjamin Nhandi;Joyce Wamoyi

  • Changing forms of HIV-related stigma along the HIV care and treatment continuum in sub-Saharan Africa: a temporal analysis.

    O Bonnington;J Wamoyi;W Ddaaki;D Bukenya

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Wight
Daniel Wight University of Glasgow
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Suzanne Maman
Suzanne Maman University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark Urassa
Mark Urassa Medical Research Council
Lori Heise
Lori Heise Johns Hopkins University
Morten Skovdal
Morten Skovdal University of Copenhagen
Audrey Pettifor
Audrey Pettifor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Heidi Stöckl
Heidi Stöckl University of London
Victoria Hosegood
Victoria Hosegood University of Southampton
Frances Gardner
Frances Gardner University of Oxford

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