Dorina Onoya

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Dorina Onoya is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dorina Onoya has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Infectious Diseases, 28 papers in General Health Professions and 18 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Dorina Onoya's work include HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (47 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (25 papers) and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (18 papers). Dorina Onoya is often cited by papers focused on HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (47 papers), Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (25 papers) and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (18 papers). Dorina Onoya collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Netherlands. Dorina Onoya's co-authors include Olive Shisana, Khangelani Zuma, Nompumelelo Zungu, T. Rehle, Sean Jooste, Leickness C. Simbayi, Demetre Labadarios, Matthew P. Fox, Sizulu Moyo and Meredith Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Dorina Onoya

52 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey, 2012

2014 987 citations Olive Shisana, T. Rehle et al. profile →
New insights into HIV epidemic in South Africa: key findings from the National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey, 2012

2016 480 citations Khangelani Zuma, Olive Shisana et al. African Journal of AIDS Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dorina Onoya South Africa	18	1.5k	1.2k	788	341	274	56	2.2k
Carol S. Camlin United States	25	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	693 0.9×	411 1.2×	162 0.6×	106	2.0k
Edmore Marinda South Africa	21	1.6k 1.1×	975 0.8×	964 1.2×	213 0.6×	243 0.9×	45	2.5k
Minrie Greeff South Africa	23	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	790 1.0×	267 0.8×	231 0.8×	71	2.0k
Gavin George South Africa	26	918 0.6×	877 0.7×	471 0.6×	328 1.0×	333 1.2×	131	1.8k
Nicola Desmond United Kingdom	23	1.5k 1.0×	876 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	396 1.2×	161 0.6×	95	2.1k
Sandra I. McCoy United States	25	1.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	822 1.0×	263 0.8×	147 0.5×	119	2.3k
Joseph K. B. Matovu Uganda	28	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	450 1.3×	186 0.7×	122	2.6k
Nompumelelo Zungu South Africa	20	1.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.5×	925 1.2×	523 1.5×	425 1.6×	49	3.0k
Mary Mahy Switzerland	28	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	984 1.2×	331 1.0×	281 1.0×	75	2.7k
Aranka Anema Canada	26	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	647 0.8×	257 0.8×	134 0.5×	52	2.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Onoya, Dorina, Idah Mokhele, Refiloe Cele, et al.. (2025). Rapid review of the ideal clinic realisation and maintenance programme among primary healthcare providers in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. BMJ Open Quality. 14(2). e003212–e003212.

Bor, Jacob, Cornelius Nattey, Dickman Gareta, et al.. (2025). Record linkage without patient identifiers: Proof of concept using data from South Africa’s national HIV program. PLOS Global Public Health. 5(7). e0004835–e0004835.

Lauren, Evelyn, Matthew P. Fox, William MacLeod, et al.. (2024). The fall—And rise—In hospital-based care for people with HIV in South Africa: 2004–2017. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(9). e0002127–e0002127. 1 indexed citations

Sineke, Tembeka, Jacob Bor, Rachel King, et al.. (2024). Integrating ‘undetectable equals untransmittable’ into HIV counselling in South Africa: the development of locally acceptable communication tools using intervention mapping. BMC Public Health. 24(1). 1052–1052. 2 indexed citations

Mokhele, Idah, et al.. (2024). Improving patient-centred counselling skills among lay healthcare workers in South Africa using the Thusa-Thuso motivational interviewing training and support program. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). e0002611–e0002611. 1 indexed citations

Onoya, Dorina, Tembeka Sineke, Rachel King, et al.. (2023). Designing effective U = U communication strategies considering the needs of PLHIV, their partners, and healthcare worker constraints in South African clinics. PLoS ONE. 18(12). e0295920–e0295920. 4 indexed citations

MacLeod, William, Jacob Bor, Mhairi Maskew, et al.. (2022). Cohort profile: the South African National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) National HIV Cohort. BMJ Open. 12(10). e066671–e066671. 8 indexed citations

Ballif, Marie, Nanina Anderegg, Frédérique Chammartin, et al.. (2021). Tracing People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Who Are Lost to Follow-up at Antiretroviral Therapy Programs in Southern Africa: A Sampling-Based Cohort Study in 6 Countries. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 74(2). 171–179. 11 indexed citations

Bor, Jacob, et al.. (2021). Perceived efficacy of HIV treatment-as-prevention among university students in Johannesburg, South Africa. Sexually Transmitted Infections. 97(8). 596–600. 8 indexed citations

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Hirasen, Kamban, et al.. (2020). HIV Treatment Outcomes Among Patients Initiated on Antiretroviral Therapy Pre and Post-Universal Test and Treat Guidelines in South Africa. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

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Onoya, Dorina, et al.. (2020). Incidence and predictors of sexually transmitted infections among adult HIV-positive patients receiving antiretroviral therapy at Themba Lethu HIV clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa. South African Medical Journal. 111(1). 80–80. 3 indexed citations

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Mongwenyana, Constance, et al.. (2019). Reasons for late presentation for antenatal care, healthcare providers’ perspective. BMC Health Services Research. 19(1). 1016–1016. 29 indexed citations

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Nattey, Cornelius, et al.. (2018). Understanding Predictors of Early Antenatal Care Initiation in Relationship to Timing of HIV Diagnosis in South Africa. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 32(6). 251–256. 6 indexed citations

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Onoya, Dorina, Cornelius Nattey, Mhairi Maskew, et al.. (2017). Predicting the Need for Third-Line Antiretroviral Therapy by Identifying Patients at High Risk for Failing Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in South Africa. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. 31(5). 205–212. 25 indexed citations

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Fox, Matthew P., Mhairi Maskew, Alana T. Brennan, et al.. (2017). Cohort profile: the Right to Care Clinical HIV Cohort, South Africa. BMJ Open. 7(6). bmjopen–2016. 15 indexed citations

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Zuma, Khangelani, Olive Shisana, T. Rehle, et al.. (2016). New insights into HIV epidemic in South Africa: key findings from the National HIV Prevalence, Incidence and Behaviour Survey, 2012. African Journal of AIDS Research. 15(1). 67–75. 480 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rehle, T., Leigh F. Johnson, Timothy B. Hallett, et al.. (2015). A Comparison of South African National HIV Incidence Estimates: A Critical Appraisal of Different Methods. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0133255–e0133255. 49 indexed citations

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Simbayi, Leickness C., Dorina Onoya, Sean Jooste, et al.. (2014). Sexism, Intimate Partner Violence and Risk Behavior Amongst Men in a South African Township. Violence and Gender. 1(2). 53–59. 3 indexed citations

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Reddy, Priscilla, Dorina Onoya, Sibusiso Sifunda, et al.. (2009). Preference for dry sex, condom use and risk of STI among HIV-negative black women in the Western Cape province, South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 105(1/2). 4 indexed citations

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Onoya, Dorina, Nikia D. Braxton, Sibusiso Sifunda, et al.. (2008). SISTA South Africa: The adaptation of an efficacious HIV prevention trial conducted with African-American women for isiXhosa-speaking South African women. SAHARA-J Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 5(4). 186–191. 20 indexed citations

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