Loraine Townsend

1.9k total citations
40 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Loraine Townsend is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Infectious Diseases and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Loraine Townsend has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in General Health Professions, 17 papers in Infectious Diseases and 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Loraine Townsend's work include Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (19 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (17 papers) and Sex work and related issues (13 papers). Loraine Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (19 papers), HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (17 papers) and Sex work and related issues (13 papers). Loraine Townsend collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Sweden. Loraine Townsend's co-authors include Alan J. Flisher, Gary King, Yanga Zembe, Catherine Mathews, Anna Mia Ekström, Anna Thorson, Mickey Chopra, Lisa G. Johnston, Tamika D. Gilreath and Perpetual Chikobvu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, American Journal of Public Health and Statistics in Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Loraine Townsend

39 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Loraine Townsend South Africa	20	707	458	398	365	241	40	1.4k
Richard Durán United States	18	809 1.1×	348 0.8×	594 1.5×	396 1.1×	299 1.2×	28	1.4k
Caroline Kuo United States	21	646 0.9×	260 0.6×	443 1.1×	208 0.6×	319 1.3×	75	1.2k
Julie A. Cederbaum United States	26	826 1.2×	442 1.0×	280 0.7×	169 0.5×	703 2.9×	112	1.8k
Larry D. Icard United States	20	587 0.8×	381 0.8×	533 1.3×	264 0.7×	213 0.9×	58	1.2k
Lee Strunin United States	16	850 1.2×	398 0.9×	384 1.0×	250 0.7×	397 1.6×	23	1.3k
Maretha Visser South Africa	22	973 1.4×	237 0.5×	878 2.2×	396 1.1×	330 1.4×	63	1.6k
Lusajo J. Kajula United States	20	897 1.3×	282 0.6×	573 1.4×	237 0.6×	261 1.1×	62	1.3k
Tiarney D. Ritchwood United States	20	605 0.9×	255 0.6×	462 1.2×	298 0.8×	307 1.3×	64	1.2k
Stephen W. Banspach United States	23	1.1k 1.5×	261 0.6×	334 0.8×	87 0.2×	398 1.7×	43	1.8k

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Townsend, Loraine, Yanga Zembe, Mireille Cheyip, et al.. (2016). The Relationship Between Social Support, HIV Serostatus, and Perceived Likelihood of Being HIV Positive Among Self-Settled Female, Foreign Migrants in Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. 19(4). 883–890. 3 indexed citations

Mathews, Catherine, Sander Matthijs Eggers, Loraine Townsend, et al.. (2016). Effects of PREPARE, a Multi-component, School-Based HIV and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Prevention Programme on Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviour and IPV: Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial. AIDS and Behavior. 20(9). 1821–1840. 79 indexed citations

Townsend, Loraine, Yanga Zembe, Mireille Cheyip, et al.. (2016). Social support as an effect modifier of the relationship between sexual violence and transactional sex among female, foreign migrants in Cape Town, South Africa. American Journal of Public Health. 106(6). 1 indexed citations

Townsend, Loraine, Yanga Zembe, Mireille Cheyip, et al.. (2016). HIV Prevalence and Risk Factors Among Male Foreign Migrants in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS and Behavior. 21(3). 949–961. 12 indexed citations

Harker, Nadine, et al.. (2016). Using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to recruit illegal poly-substance users in Cape Town, South Africa: implications and future directions. Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy. 11(1). 31–31. 11 indexed citations

Townsend, Loraine, Yanga Zembe, Sally Guttmacher, et al.. (2016). Social Support, Sexual Violence, and Transactional Sex Among Female Transnational Migrants to South Africa. American Journal of Public Health. 106(6). 1123–1129. 15 indexed citations

Zembe, Yanga, Loraine Townsend, Anna Thorson, Margrethe Silberschmidt, & Anna Mia Ekström. (2015). Intimate Partner Violence, Relationship Power Inequity and the Role of Sexual and Social Risk Factors in the Production of Violence among Young Women Who Have Multiple Sexual Partners in a Peri-Urban Setting in South Africa. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0139430–e0139430. 64 indexed citations

Townsend, Loraine, et al.. (2015). The wrong type of decline: Fluctuations in price and value of illegal substances in Cape Town. South African Crime Quarterly. 54(0). 43–43. 5 indexed citations

Townsend, Loraine, et al.. (2014). HIV Prevalence and Risk Behaviours Among Foreign Migrant Women Residing in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS and Behavior. 18(10). 2020–2029. 14 indexed citations

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Zembe, Yanga, Loraine Townsend, Anna Thorson, & Anna Mia Ekström. (2013). “Money talks, bullshit walks” interrogating notions of consumption and survival sex among young women engaging in transactional sex in post-apartheid South Africa: a qualitative enquiry. Globalization and Health. 9(1). 28–28. 81 indexed citations

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Townsend, Loraine, Yanga Zembe, Catherine Mathews, & Amanda J. Mason‐Jones. (2012). Estimating HIV Prevalence and HIV-Related Risk Behaviors Among Heterosexual Women Who Have Multiple Sex Partners Using Respondent-Driven Sampling in a High-Risk Community in South Africa. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 62(4). 457–464. 12 indexed citations

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Townsend, Loraine, Catherine Mathews, & Yanga Zembe. (2012). A Systematic Review of Behavioral Interventions to Prevent HIV Infection and Transmission among Heterosexual, Adult Men in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. Prevention Science. 14(1). 88–105. 37 indexed citations

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Townsend, Loraine, Rachel Jewkes, Catherine Mathews, et al.. (2010). HIV Risk Behaviours and their Relationship to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Among Men Who Have Multiple Female Sexual Partners in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS and Behavior. 15(1). 132–141. 85 indexed citations

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Townsend, Loraine, Lisa G. Johnston, Alan J. Flisher, Catherine Mathews, & Yanga Zembe. (2010). Effectiveness of Respondent-Driven Sampling to Recruit High Risk Heterosexual Men Who Have Multiple Female Sexual Partners: Differences in HIV Prevalence and Sexual Risk Behaviours Measured at Two Time Points. AIDS and Behavior. 14(6). 1330–1339. 18 indexed citations

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Townsend, Loraine, et al.. (2010). The construction of an idealised urban masculinity among men with concurrent sexual partners in a South African township. Global Health Action. 3(1). 5092–5092. 29 indexed citations

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Chopra, Mickey, Loraine Townsend, Lisa G. Johnston, et al.. (2009). Estimating HIV Prevalence and Risk Behaviors Among High-Risk Heterosexual Men With Multiple Sex Partners: Use of Respondent-Driven Sampling. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 51(1). 72–77. 43 indexed citations

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Chikobvu, Perpetual, Carl Lombard, Alan J. Flisher, et al.. (2008). Bias in a binary risk behaviour model subject to inconsistent reports and dropout in a South African high school cohort study. Statistics in Medicine. 28(3). 494–509. 2 indexed citations

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Townsend, Loraine, Alan J. Flisher, & Gary King. (2007). A Systematic Review of the Relationship between High School Dropout and Substance Use. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. 10(4). 295–317. 278 indexed citations

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Townsend, Loraine, Alan J. Flisher, Tamika D. Gilreath, & Gary King. (2006). A systematic literature review of tobacco use among adults 15 years and older in sub-Saharan Africa. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 84(1). 14–27. 81 indexed citations

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Bridges, Jackie, et al.. (1977). EMP Preferred Test Procedures. Revision. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 77. 31383. 1 indexed citations

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