Wendee Wechsberg

Williams, P. P., Erasmus-Claassen, L.-A., Taylor, S., Browne, F. A., Wechsberg, W. M., Myers, B., … Washio, Y. (2024). Perceptions of perinatal alcohol use and treatment needs in Cape Town, South Africa: a qualitative study. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1199647

Singer, S. E., Wechsberg, W. M., Kline, T., Browne, F. A., Howard, B. N., Carney, T., … Chin-Quee, D. (2023). Binge drinking and condom negotiation behaviours among adolescent girls and young women living in Cape Town, South Africa: sexual control and perceived personal power. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17188-0

Osakwe, C. E. E., Drift, I., Opper, C. A. A., Zule, W. A. A., Browne, F. A. A., & Wechsberg, W. M. M. (2023, July 26). Condom Use at Last Sex and Sexual Negotiation Among Young African American Women in North Carolina: Context or Personal Agency. JOURNAL OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-023-01693-4

Browne, F. A., Washio, Y., Zule, W. A., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2023). HIV-related risk among justice-involved young African American women in the US South. HEALTH & JUSTICE, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40352-023-00228-7

Carney, T., Myers, B., Browne, F. A., Kline, T., Bonner, C. P., Ndirangu, J., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2023, August 28). Relationship Between Criminal and Status Offense Behaviors, Substance Use, and HIV Risk Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Cape Town, South Africa. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-023-01130

Ndirangu, J. W., Gichane, M. W., Browne, F. A., Bonner, C. P., Zule, W. A., Cox, E. N., … Wechsberg, W. M. (2022, January 21). 'We have goals but [it is difficult]'. Barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence among women using alcohol and other drugs living with HIV in South Africa. HEALTH EXPECTATIONS. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13422

Washio, Y., Hayashi, Y., Atreyapurapu, S., Chang, K., Ma, T., Howard, B. N., … Wechsberg, W. M. (2022, May 12). A Scoping Review of Computer-Based and Telecommunication Technology Interventions to Address Drug and Alcohol Misuse and Smoking in Women. SUBSTANCE USE & MISUSE. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2022.2076878

Browne, F. A., Bonner, C. P., Kline, T. L., Cox, E. N., Gichane, M. W., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2022, June 24). Alcohol, drug use, and sexual risk among young African American women in North Carolina: is educational attainment protective? VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND YOUTH STUDIES. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450128.2022.2089794

Watkins, R. L., Browne, F. A., Kizakevich, P. N., Howard, B. N., Turner, L. B., Eckhoff, R., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2022). An Evidence-Based HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention for Young African American Women in the US South Using mHealth: Adaptation and Development Study. JMIR FORMATIVE RESEARCH, 6(5). https://doi.org/10.2196/34041

Harris, M. T. H., Laks, J., Stahl, N., Bagley, S. M., Saia, K., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2022). Gender Dynamics in Substance Use and Treatment: A Women's Focused Approach. MEDICAL CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA, 106(1), 219–234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2021.08.007

Wechsberg, W. M., Drift, I., Howard, B. N., Myers, B., Browne, F. A., Bonner, C. P., … Washio, Y. (2022). [Review of Gender and Context Matter: Behavioral and Structural Interventions for People Who Use Alcohol and Other Drugs in Africa]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 19(14). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148661

Browne, F. A., Gichane, M. W., Shangase, N., Ndirangu, J., Bonner, C. P., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2022, November 7). Social Determinants of Alcohol and Other Drug Misuse Among Women Living with HIV in Economically Underserved Communities in Cape Town, South Africa: A Cross-Sectional Study. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03869-1

Nyblade, L., Ndirangu, J. W., Speizer, I. S., Browne, F. A., Bonner, C. P., Minnis, A., … Wechsberg, W. M. (2022). Stigma in the health clinic and implications for PrEP access and use by adolescent girls and young women: conflicting perspectives in South Africa. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14236-z

Bonner, C. P., Fisher, C. B., Carney, T., Browne, F. A., Gichane, M. W., Howard, B. N., … Wechsberg, W. M. (2021). "Because all mothers is not the same": The development and implementation of an in loco parentis informed consent procedure to enroll adolescent girls and young women to participate in HIV research. JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENCE, 93(1), 234–244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2021.11.001

Washio, Y., Browne, F. A., Ndirangu, J., Kline, T. L., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2021). Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Adherence and Prenatal Alcohol Use among Women Who Are Pregnant with HIV in South Africa. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 18(14). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18147446

Wechsberg, W. M., Browne, F. A., Bonner, C. P., Washio, Y., Howard, B. N., & Drift, I. (2021, June 10). Current Interventions for People Living with HIV Who Use Alcohol: Why Gender Matters. CURRENT HIV/AIDS REPORTS. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11904-021-00558-x

Wechsberg, W. M., Browne, F. A., Ndirangu, J., Bonner, C. P., Kline, T. L., Gichane, M., & Zule, W. A. (2021). Outcomes of Implementing in the Real World the Women's Health CoOp Intervention in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR, 25(SUPPL 3), 276–289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03251-7

Bonner, C. P., Carney, T., Browne, F. A., Ndirangu, J. W., Howard, B. N., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2021). Substance use and depressive and anxiety symptoms among out-of-school adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town, South Africa. SAMJ SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, 111(1), 40–45. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.2020.v111i1.14520

Gichane, M. W., Wechsberg, W. M., Ndirangu, J., Howard, B., Bonner, C. P., Browne, F. A., & Zule, W. A. (2021, August 17). Sustainability of a gender-focused HIV and alcohol risk-reduction intervention in usual care settings in South Africa: a mixed methods analysis. AIDS CARE-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-MEDICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS/HIV. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2021.1966694

Myers, B., Browne, F. A., Carney, T., Kline, T., Bonner, C. P., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2021). The Association of Recurrent and Multiple Types of Abuse with Adverse Mental Health, Substance Use, and Sexual Health Outcomes among Out-of-School Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Cape Town, South Africa. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 18(21). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111403

Williams, P. P., Washio, Y., Myers, B., Jaspan, H., Browne, F. A., Wechsberg, W. M., & Parry, C. (2020, March). Cannabis use and breastfeeding: do we know enough? SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, Vol. 50, pp. 7–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081246319893934

Gichane, M. W., Wechsberg, W. M., Ndirangu, J., Browne, F. A., Bonner, C. P., Grimwood, A., … Zule, W. A. (2020). Implementation science outcomes of a gender-focused HIV and alcohol risk-reduction intervention in usual-care settings in South Africa. DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE, 215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2020.108206

Belus, J. M., Baucom, D. H., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2020). Individual and Relationship Predictors of Couple-Level Sexual Concurrency in Heterosexual South African Couples. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, 49(3), 999–1015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-1444-3

Belus, J. M., Kline, T., Carney, T., Myers, B., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2020). Measuring relationship functioning in South African couples: a strategy for improving HIV prevention efforts. SEXUAL AND RELATIONSHIP THERAPY, 35(1), 2–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2017.1419559

Myers, B., Carney, T., Johnson, K., Browne, F. A., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2020). Service providers' perceptions of barriers to the implementation of trauma-focused substance use services for women in Cape Town, South Africa. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY, 75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.102628

Wechsberg, W. M., Browne, F. A., Ndirangu, J., Bonner, C. P., Minnis, A. M., Nyblade, L., … Ahmed, K. (2020). The PrEPARE Pretoria Project: protocol for a cluster-randomized factorial-design trial to prevent HIV with PrEP among adolescent girls and young women in Tshwane, South Africa. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09458-y

Myers, B., Carney, T., Browne, F. A., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2019). A trauma-informed substance use and sexual risk reduction intervention for young South African women: a mixed-methods feasibility study. BMJ OPEN, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024776

Wechsberg, W. M., Bonner, C. P., Zule, W. A., Horst, C., Ndirangu, J., Browne, F. A., … Rodman, N. F. (2019). Addressing the nexus of risk: Biobehavioral outcomes from a cluster randomized trial of the Women's Health CoOp Plus in Pretoria, South Africa. DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE, 195, 16–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.10.036

Carney, T., Browne, F. A., Myers, B., Kline, T. L., Howard, B., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2019). Adolescent female school dropouts who use drugs and engage in risky sex: effects of a brief pilot intervention in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS CARE-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-MEDICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS/HIV, 31(1), 77–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2018.1500008

Bonner, C. P., Browne, F. A., Ndirangu, J. W., Howard, B., Zule, W. A., Speizer, I. S., … Wechsberg, W. M. (2019). Exploring the associations between physical and sexual gender-based violence and HIV among women who use substances in South Africa: the role of agency and alcohol. AIDS CARE-PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-MEDICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS/HIV, 31(11), 1369–1375. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2019.1595512

Meyer, J. P., Isaacs, K., El-Shahawy, O., Burlew, A. K., & Wechsberg, W. (2019). [Review of Research on women with substance use disorders: Reviewing progress and developing a research and implementation roadmap]. DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE, 197, 158–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.01.017

Belus, J. M., Baucom, D. H., Carney, T., Carrino, E., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2018). A Model of Heterosexual Adaptive Relationship Functioning in South Africa: Implications for HIV Prevention Interventions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEXUAL HEALTH, 30(4), 398–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/19317611.2018.1530324

Speizer, I. S., Zule, W. A., Carney, T., Browne, F. A., Ndirangu, J., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2018). Changing sex risk behaviors, gender norms, and relationship dynamics among couples in Cape Town, South Africa: Efficacy of an intervention on the dyad. SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 209, 95–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.05.024

Zule, W. A., Speizer, I. S., Browne, F. A., Howard, B. N., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2018). Condom Use, Multiple Rounds of Sex, and Alcohol Use Among South African Women Who Use Alcohol and Other Drugs: An Event-Level Analysis. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, 45(12), 786–790. https://doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000881

Myers, B., Carney, T., Browne, F. A., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2018). Development of a trauma-informed substance use and sexual risk reduction intervention for young South African women. PATIENT PREFERENCE AND ADHERENCE, 12, 1997–2006. https://doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S175852

Wechsberg, W. M., Browne, F. A., Carney, T., Myers, B., Minnis, A., MacDonald, R., … Rodman, N. (2018). The Young Women's Health CoOp in Cape Town, South Africa: Study protocol for a cluster-randomised trial for adolescent women at risk for HIV. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5665-5

Carney, T., Myers, B., Kline, T. L., Johnson, K., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2017). Aggressive behaviour among drug-using women from Cape Town, South Africa: ethnicity, heavy alcohol use, methamphetamine and intimate partner violence. BMC WOMENS HEALTH, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-017-0447-2

Wechsberg, W. M., Ndirangu, J. W., Speizer, I. S., Zule, W. A., Gumula, W., Peasant, C., … Dunlap, L. (2017). An implementation science protocol of the Women's Health CoOp in healthcare settings in Cape Town, South Africa: A stepped-wedge design. BMC WOMENS HEALTH, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-017-0433-8

Wechsberg, W. M., Browne, F. A., Zule, W. A., Novak, S. P., Doherty, I. A., Kline, T. L., … Herbst, J. H. (2017). Efficacy of the Young Women's CoOp: An HIV Risk-Reduction Intervention for Substance-Using African-American Female Adolescents in the South. JOURNAL OF CHILD & ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE ABUSE, 26(3), 205–218. https://doi.org/10.1080/1067828x.2016.1260511

Wechsberg, W. M., Peasant, C., Kline, T., Zule, W. A., Ndirangu, J., Browne, F. A., … Horst, C. (2017). HIV Prevention Among Women Who Use Substances And Report Sex Work: Risk Groups Identified Among South African Women. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR, 21(2), S155–S166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-017-1889-0

Wechsberg, W. M., Horst, C., Ndirangu, J., Doherty, I. A., Kline, T., Browne, F. A., … Zule, W. A. (2017). Seek, test, treat: substance-using women in the HIV treatment cascade in South Africa. ADDICTION SCIENCE & CLINICAL PRACTICE, 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13722-017-0077-x

Myers, B., Carney, T., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2016). "Not on the agenda": A qualitative study of influences on health services use among poor young women who use drugs in Cape Town, South Africa. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY, 30, 52–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.12.019

Doherty, I. A., Myers, B., Zule, W. A., Minnis, A. M., Kline, T. L., Parry, C. D., … Wechsberg, W. M. (2016). Seek, Test and Disclose: knowledge of HIV testing and serostatus among high-risk couples in a South African township. SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS, 92(1), 5–11. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2014-051882

Wechsberg, W. M., Zule, W. A., El-Bassel, N., Doherty, I. A., Minnis, A. M., Novak, S. D., … Carney, T. (2016). The male factor: Outcomes from a cluster randomized field experiment with a couples-based HIV prevention intervention in a South African township. DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE, 161, 307–315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.02.017

Wechsberg, W. M., El-Bassel, N., Carney, T., Browne, F. A., Myers, B., & Zule, W. A. (2015). Adapting an evidence-based HIV behavioral intervention for South African couples. SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PREVENTION AND POLICY, 10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-015-0005-6

Myers, B., Jones, H. E., Doherty, I. A., Kline, T. L., Key, M. E., Johnson, K., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2015). Correlates of Lifetime Trauma Exposure Among Pregnant Women from Cape Town, South Africa. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION, 13(3), 307–321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-015-9544-3

Reed, E., Myers, B., Novak, S. P., Browne, F. A., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2015). Experiences of Violence and Association with Decreased Drug Abstinence Among Women in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR, 19(1), 192–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-014-0820-1

Wechsberg, W. M., Deren, S., Myers, B., Kirtadze, I., Zule, W. A., Howard, B., & El-Bassel, N. (2015). Gender-Specific HIV Prevention Interventions for Women Who Use Alcohol and Other Drugs: The Evolution of the Science and Future Directions. JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES, 69, S128–S139. https://doi.org/10.1097/qai.0000000000000627

Wechsberg, W. M., Doherty, I. A., Myers, B., Morgan-Lopez, A. A., Emanuel, A., Carney, T., … Zule, W. A. (2014). Contextualizing gender differences and methamphetamine use with HIV prevalence within a South African community. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRUG POLICY, 25(3), 583–590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2013.10.016

Myers, B., Kline, T. L., Doherty, I. A., Carney, T., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2014). Perceived need for substance use treatment among young women from disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa. BMC PSYCHIATRY, 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244x-14-100

Wechsberg, W. M., Jewkes, R., Novak, S. P., Kline, T., Myers, B., Browne, F. A., … Parry, C. (2013). A brief intervention for drug use, sexual risk behaviours and violence prevention with vulnerable women in South Africa: a randomised trial of the Women's Health CoOp. BMJ OPEN, 3(5). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-002622

Myers, B., Kline, T. L., Browne, F. A., Carney, T., Parry, C., Johnson, K., & Wechsberg, W. M. (2013). Ethnic differences in alcohol and drug use and related sexual risks for HIV among vulnerable women in Cape Town, South Africa: implications for interventions. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH, 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-174