Gender and Health Research Unit

Publications

2011

• Nduna M, Jewkes RK. Silence: a strategy used to deal with psychological distress by young people in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 2011;6(4):360-72.
• Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Mathews S. Forensic medicine in South Africa: associations between medical practice and legal case progression and outcomes in female murders. PloS one. 2011;6(12):e28620. Epub 2011/12/24.
• Jewkes R, Morrell R. Sexuality and the limits of agency among South African teenage women: Theorising femininities and their connections to HIV risk practises. Soc Sci Med. 2011. Epub 2011/06/24.
• Jewkes R, Sikweyiya Y, Morrell R, Dunkle K. The relationship between intimate partner violence, rape and HIV amongst South African men: a cross-sectional study. PloS one. 2011;6(9):e24256. Epub 2011/09/22.
• Jewkes R, Sikweyiya Y, Morrell R, Dunkle K. Gender inequitable masculinity and sexual entitlement in rape perpetration South Africa: findings of a cross-sectional study. PloS one. 2011;6(12):e29590. Epub 2012/01/05.
• Jina R, Jewkes R, Christofides N, Smith JH. Recovering of DNA evidence after rape. South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde. 2011;101(10):758-9. Epub 2012/01/26.
• Jina R, Jewkes R, Hoffman S, Dunkle KL, Nduna M, Shai NJ. Adverse mental health outcomes associated with emotional abuse in young rural South african women: a cross-sectional study. Journal of interpersonal violence. 2012;27(5):862-80. Epub 2011/10/12.
• Morrell R, Jewkes R. Carework and caring: A path to gender equitable practices among men in South Africa? International journal for equity in health. 2011;10(1):17. Epub 2011/05/10.
• Shamu S, Abrahams N, Temmerman M, Musekiwa A, Zarowsky C. A systematic review of African studies on intimate partner violence against pregnant women: prevalence and risk factors. PloS one. 2011;6(3):e17591. Epub 2011/03/17.
• Sikweyiya Y, Jewkes R. Perceptions about safety and risks in gender-based violence research: implications for the ethics review process. Culture, health & sexuality. 2011;13(9):1091-102. Epub 2011/08/10.
• Mathews, S., Jewkes, R., & Abrahams, N. (2011). ‘I Had a Hard Life’. British Journal of Criminology. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azr051
• Morrell R, Jewkes R. “I am a male, although I am a little bit soft” : Men who care in South Africa. A case study of masculinities and gender equality.  International Journal of Health Equity.  (in press)

2010

• Jewkes R, Dunkle K. Nduna M, Shai N. Intimate partner violence, relationship gender power inequity, and incidence of HIV infection in young women in South Africa: a cohort study. The Lancet (in press)
• Jewkes R. (2010) Where to for sexual health education for adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa? PLoS Medicine 7(6): e1000288. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000288
• Townsend L, Jewkes R, Mathews C, Johnston L, Zembe Y,  Flisher A, Chopra M. Intimate partner violence (IPV) and its relationship to HIV sexual risk behaviour among men who have multiple female sexual partners in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS & Behaviour  2010;
• Jewkes R, Morrell R Gender and sexuality: emerging perspectives from the heterosexual epidemic in South Africa and implications for HIV risk and prevention. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2010; 13:6 (9 February 2010).
• Abrahams N, Jewkes R . Barriers to post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) completion after rape: a  South African qualitative study. Culture Health and Sexuality. 12 (5); 471-484
• Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Lombard C, Mathews S, Campbell J, Meel B. Impact of telephonic psycho-social support on adherence to post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) after rape: a randomised controlled trial. AIDS Care (in press)
• Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Mathews S. The role of guns in gender based violence: evidence from South Africa. South African Medical Journal (in press)
• Jina R, Jewkes R, Mjunjanja S, Ortiz Mariscal JD,  Dartnall E. Guidelines for the management of sexual violence. International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2010, 109, 85-92.
• Sigsworth R, Vetten L, Jewkes R, Christofides N. Policing rape in South Africa. Agenda  (in press)
• Christofides N, Jewkes R Acceptability of universal screening for intimate partner violence in voluntary HIV testing and counseling services in South Africa and service implications. AIDS Care.  (in press)
• Shai  N, Jewkes R, Nduna M, Levin J, Dunkle K. Factors associated with consistent and inconsistent condom use among rural young women in South Africa. AIDS Care. (in press)
• Astbury J. Jewkes R. (in press) Sexual violence: a priority research area for women's mental health. In: Parker R, Sommer M (eds) Handbook of Global Public Health. Routledge International: New York.
• Jewkes R. HIV and violence against women. In: Hall J, Hall B, C Cockerell. The AIDS Epidemic: Treatment and Epidemiology in the 21st Century. 
• Jewkes R  Evaluation interventions to prevent intimate partner violence In: Thorogood M & Coombes Y (eds) (third edition) Evaluating health promotion: practice & methods. Oxford University Press. (in press)
• Barker G, Greene M, Goldstein-Siegel E, Nascimento M, Segundo M, Ricardo C, Figueroa JG, Redpath J, Morrell R, Jewkes R, Peacock D, Aguayo F, Sadler M, Das A, Singh S, Pawar A, Pawlak P. What men have to do with it. Policy policies to promote gender equality. International Center for Research on Women. Washington. 2010

2009

• Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin L, Vetten L, Lombard C. Injury patterns of female homicide victims in South Africa. J Trauma 2009; 67(1):168-172.
• Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Lombard C Alcohol use and its role in female homicides in the Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 2009; 70(3): 321-327
• Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Mathews S, Lombard C, Vetten L Mortality of women from intimate partner violence in South Africa: a national epidemiological study. Journal of Violence and Victims 2009; 24(4): 546-556.
• Jewkes R, Morrell R, Christofides N Empowering teenagers to prevent pregnancy: lessons from South Africa. Culture, Health and Sexuality 2009; 11(7): 675-688.
• Sikweyiya Y, Jewkes R Force and temptation: contrasting South Africa men’s accounts of coercion into sex by men and women Culture, Health and Sexuality 2009;11(5):529-41
• Coovadia H, Jewkes R, Barron P, Sanders D, McIntyre D. The health and health system of South Africa: historical roots of current public health challenges. The Lancet 2009: 374 (9692): 817-834.
• Seedat M, Van Niekerk A, Jewkes R, Suffla S, Ratele K. Violence and injuries in South Africa: prioritising an agenda for prevention . The Lancet 2009: 374: 1011-22.
• Jewkes RK, Christofides N, Vetten L, Jina R, Fuller R, Loots L Medico-legal findings, case progression and legal outcomes in South African rape cases: a cross-sectional study. PLoS Medicine 6(10): e1000164. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000164
• Chopra M, Lawn J, Sanders D, Barron D, Abdool Karim SS, Bradshaw D, Jewkes R et al Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals for South Africa: challenges and priorities. The Lancet 2009; 374:1023-31.
• Jewkes R Women and HIV In: Rohleder P,  Swartz L, Kalichman S,  Simbayi L (eds.) HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 years on: a psycho-social perspective. New York: Springer (2009) p. 27-40
• Jewkes R Growing up sexual. In: Mitchell C, Pithouse K (eds) Teaching and HIV & AIDS in the OBE Classroom. Johannesburg: MacMillan South Africa. (2009) ISBN:  9781770307551  p. 156-167
• [Jewkes R] (2009) Session 16: women and violence. In: World Health Organisation, Dept. of Making  Pregnancy Safer. Counselling for maternal and newborn health care. A handbook for building skills. World Health Organisation. Geneva. http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/documents/9789241547628/en/index.html
• Jewkes R, Sikweyiya Y, Morrell R, Dunkle K (2009) Understanding men’s health and use of violence: interface of rape and HIV in South Africa. Technical Report. Medical Research Council, Pretoria.
• Redpath J, Morrell R, Jewkes R, Peacock D (2009) Masculinities and public policy in South Africa: changing masculinities and working toward gender equality. Sonke Gender Justice, Cape Town.

2008

• Wood K, Lambert H, Jewkes R,  ‘Injuries are beyond love’: young South Africans’ understandings of limit and legitimacy in relation to physical violence in their sexual relationships. Medical Anthropology 2008; 27(1): 43-69.
• Abrahams N, Martin LJ, Jewkes R, Mathews S, Vetten L,  Lombard C (2008) The epidemiology and the pathology of rape homicide in South Africa. Forensic Science International 178,132-138
• Mathews S, Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Martin LJ, Lombard C, Vetten L,  (2008) Intimate femicide-suicide in South Africa. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 86:542-58.
• Ellsberg M, Jansen HA, Heise L, Watts CH, Garcia-Moreno C, WHO Multi-country study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against women study team. Intimate partner violence and women’s physical and mental health in the WHO Multi-country study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence: an observational study. The Lancet  2008; 371: 1165-72.
• Jewkes R, Nduna M, Levin J, Jama N, Dunkle K, Puren A, Duvvury N (2008) Impact of Stepping Stones on HIV, HSV-2 and sexual behaviour in rural South Africa: cluster randomised controlled trial British Medical Journal 337:a506
• Jewkes R. Building social movements for health. The Lancet 2008; 371 (9630): 2076.
• Greig A, Peacock D, Jewkes R, Msimang S. Gender and AIDS: Time to Act. AIDS 2008;Supp2:S35-43.
• Jewkes R Commentary on: Fassin D, le Marcais F, Lethata T. Life & Times of Magda A Telling a Story of Violence in South Africa. Current Anthropology 2008; 49(2):236-7.
• Jewkes R, Dartnall L Sexual Violence. In: Heggenhougen K and Quah (eds) International Encyclopaedia of Public Health, First Edition (2008). Academic Press, San Diego.  Volume 5, p. 723-731
• Jina R, Jewkes R, Christofides N, Loots L (eds) Caring for survivors of sexual assault. A training programme for health care providers in South Africa. Participants’ manual. Department of Health, Pretoria. 2008.
• Jina R, Jewkes R, Christofides N, Loots L (eds) Caring for survivors of sexual assault. A training programme for health care providers in South Africa. Facilitators’ manual. Department of Health, Pretoria. 2008.
• Sexual assault and rape: a survivor’s guide. Booklet published by Department of Health, Pretoria. 2008
• Christofides N, Jewkes R, Jina R. ‘Meeting the survivor’s immediate psychological needs’; ‘Introducing the ‘Survivor information booklet’; ‘In vivo (real life) exposure’; ‘Imaginal exposure – reliving the memory of the rape’.  DVD.  Medical Research Council. May 2008.
• Vetten L,  Jewkes R, Fuller R, Christofides N, Loots L, Dunseith O. (2008) Tracking Justice: The Attrition of Rape Cases Through the Criminal Justice System in Gauteng. Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre. Johannesburg.

2007

• Wood K, Lambert H, Jewkes R  ‘Showing roughness in a beautiful way’: talk about love,  coercion and rape in South African youth culture. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 2007; 21(3): 277-300.
• Dunkle KL, Jewkes RK, Nduna M, Jama PN, Levin JB, Sikweyiya Y, Koss MP (2007) Transactional sex and economic exchange with partners among young South African men in the rural Eastern Cape: prevalence, predictors, and associations with gender-based violence. Social Science & Medicine 65(6),  1235-48.
• Dunkle KL, Jewkes RK  (2007) Effective HIV Prevention Requires Gender-Transformative Work with Men. Sexually Transmitted Infections 83(3), 173-4.
• Jewkes RK (2007) Time for a comprehensive response to rape in conflict settings. The Lancet 369(9580), 2140-1.
• Sikweyiya Y, Jewkes R, Morrell R. Talking about Rape: Men’s responses to questions about rape in a research environment in South Africa. Agenda 2007; 74: 48-57.
• Norman R, Bradshaw D, Schneider M, Jewkes R, Mathews S, Abrahams N, Matzopoulos R, Vos T and the South African Comparative Risk Assessment Collaborating Group. (2007) Estimating the burden of disease attributable to interpersonal violence in South Africa in 2000. S Afr Med J 97(8 Pt 2), 653-655.
• Jewkes R, Rose-Junius H, Penn-Kekana L “In my culture children have no status and if you are a girl child you have even less status”: Reflections on gender in the  social context of child rape in Namibia. In: Hubbard D, LaFont S. Gender & sexuality in Namibia. (2007) Legal Assistance Centre, Windhoek p.167-181
• Jewkes R, Wagman J. (2007) Ethical controversies in domestic violence in South Africa. Ethical Issues. In Lavery JV, Wahl E, Grady C, Emanuel EJ (eds). Ethics Issues in International Biomedical Research: A Case Book. New York: Oxford University Press. P.347-355.
• Jewkes R, Christofides N, Mooideen V, Ngobeni R (2007) Vezimfihlo! A training manual for addressing gender-based violence in VCT. Medical Research Council, Pretoria.

2006

• Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Laubscher R, Hoffman M. (2006) Intimate partner violence: prevalence and risk factors for men in Cape Town, South Africa. Violence and Victims  21(2),247-264.
• Jewkes R, Nduna M, Levin J, Jama N, Dunkle K, Khuzwayo N, Koss M, Puren A, Wood K, Duvvury N.  A cluster randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of Stepping Stones in preventing HIV infections and promoting safer sexual behaviour amongst youth in the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa: trial design, methods and baseline findings. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2006; 11:3-16.
• Christofides N, Muirhead D, Jewkes R, Penn-Kekana L, Conco ND Patient experiences of post-sexual assault services and their preferences for how services should be delivered in South Africa.  British Medical Journal 2006; 332(7535):209-23.
• Jewkes R, Dunkle K, Koss MP, Levin J, Nduna M, Jama N, Sikweyiya Y. Rape perpetration by young, rural South African men: prevalence, patterns and risk factors. Social Science and Medicine. (2006); 63: 2949-61
• Jewkes R Beyond stigma: changing social responses to HIV in South Africa. The Lancet 2006; 368(9534):430.
• Mathews S. Criminalising HIV transmission- is this good public health? South African Medical Journal 2006; 96 (4): 312-314
• Abrahams N, Mathews S, Ramela P. Intersections of ‘sanitation, sexual coercion and girls safety in schools’. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2006; 11(5): 751-756.
• Jewkes R Response to Pettifor et al AIDS 2005. AIDS 2006; 20(6), 952-3.
• Dunkle K, Jewkes R Nduna M, Levin J, Jama N, Khuzwayo N, Koss MP, Duvvury N Perpetration of partner violence and HIV risk behaviour among young men in the rural Eastern Cape AIDS 2006; 20: 2017-14.
• Jewkes R, Dunkle K, Nduna M, Levin J, Jama N, Khuzwayo N, Koss M, Puren A, Duvvury N. Factors associated with HIV sero-positivity in young, rural South African men, International Journal of Epidemiology 2006; 35: 1455-1460.
• Jewkes R, Dunkle K, Nduna M, Levin J, Jama N, Khuzwayo N, Koss M, Puren A, Duvvury N, Factors associated with HIV sero-status in young rural South African women: connections between intimate partner violence and HIV International Journal of Epidemiology 2006; 35(6
  0: 1461-8.
• Garcia-Moreno C, Jansen HAFM, Ellsberg M, Heise L, Watts C on behalf of the WHO multi-country study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women Study Team [including Jewkes R]. Prevalence of intimate partner violence: findings from the WHO multi-country study on women’s health and domestic violence. The Lancet 2006; 368: 1260-69.
• Wood K, Jewkes R. (2006) Blood Blockages and Scolding Nurses: Barriers to Adolescent Contraceptive Use in South Africa . Reproductive Health Matters 14(7), 109-118.
• Jewkes R (2006) Problematizando el stigma y la exclusion: reflexiones etnograficas sobre el stigma del VIH y el genero en Sudafrica. Caceres C, Careaga G, Frasca T, Pecheny M (eds) Sexualidad, stigma y drechose humanos. Desafios para el acceso a la salud en America Latina. FASPA/UPCH, Lima. p.357-376
• Christofides N, Muirhead D, Jewkes R, Penn-Kekana L, Conco N Including post--exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV/AIDS into post- sexual assault health services in south africa: costs and cost effectiveness of user preferred approaches to provision. Medical Research Council, Pretoria 2006.

2005

• Jewkes R. (2005) Non-consensual sex among South African youth: Prevalence of coerced sex and discourses of control and desire. Jejeebhoy S Sex without consent. Young people in developing countries. Zed books, London.  p.86-96
• Outwater A, Abrahams N & Campbell J. Women in South Africa: Intentional Violence and HIV/AIDS, Intersections and Prevention. Journal of Black Studies 2005; 35: 135-154
• Christofides N, Jewkes R, Webster N, Penn-Kekana L, Abrahams N, Martin L “Other patients are really in need of medical attention”- the quality of sexual assault services in South Africa. World Health Bulletin 2005;83 :495-502.
• Jewkes R, Penn-Kekana L, Rose-Junius H (2005) “If they rape me, I can’t blame them”: reflections on the social context of child sexual abuse in South Africa and Namibia. Social Science and Medicine 61, 1809-1820.
• Burazeri G, Roshi E, Jewkes R, Jordan S, Bjegovic V, Laaser U (2005) Empowered women and rural men: factors associated with physical intimate partner violence in a cross-sectional study of married woman in Albania. British Medical Journal 331, 197-201.
• Abrahams N, Jewkes R. What is the impact of witnessing mother abuse during childhood on South African men’s violence as adults? American Journal of Public Health 2005;95:1811-1816.
• Jewkes R, Rees H, Dickson K, Brown H, Levin J The impact of age on the epidemiology of incomplete abortions in South Africa after legislative  change. BJOG. 2005 Mar;112(3):355-9.
• Jewkes R , Rees H Dramatic decline in abortion mortality due to the Choice in termination of Pregnancy Act. South African Medical Journal 2005; 95: 250.
• Jewkes R, Gumede T, Westaway M, Levin J, Dickson-Tetteh K,  Brown H, Rees H (2005) Why are women still aborting outside designated facilities in metropolitan South Africa? British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 112, 1236-42.
• Jewkes R. (2005) Non-consensual sex among South African youth: Prevalence of coerced sex and discourses of control and desire. Jejeebhoy S Sex without consent. Young people in developing countries. Zed books, London.  p.86-96
• Dyer SJ, Abrahams N, Mokoena NE, Lombard C  & van der Spuy ZM. Psychological distress among women suffering from couple infertility in South Africa – a quantitative assessment. Human Reproduction. 2005 20(7) (pp. 1938-43)
• Wood K, Jewkes R. (2005) ‘Dangerous’ love: reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth. In: Cornwall A (ed) Readings in Gender in Africa, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.pp.95-102.

2004

• Jewkes R A prescription for gender, health and human rights. (book review) Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights by Rosalind Pollack Petchesky. The Lancet 2004; 363:91
• N Abrahams, R. Jewkes, M. Hoffman, R. Laubscher (2004) Sexual violence against intimate partners in Cape Town: prevalence and risk factors reported by men. Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 82: 330-337.
• Dunkle KL, Jewkes RK, Brown HC, Gray GE, McIntryre JA, Harlow SD. (2004) Gender-Based Violence, Relationship Power and Risk of Prevalent HIV Infection among Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in Soweto, South Africa. The Lancet 363: 1415-1421.
• Dunkle KL, Jewkes RK, Brown HC, Gray GE, McIntyre JA, Harlow SD. (2004) Transactional sex among women in Soweto, South Africa: prevalence, risk factors and association with HIV infection.  Social Science & Medicine 59, 1581-1592.
• Dunkle KL, Jewkes RK, Brown HC, et al. 2004 Prevalence and patterns of gender-based violence and revictimization among women attending antenatal clinics in Soweto, South Africa. American Journal of Epidemiology  160, 230-9.
• Abrahams N, Adhikari R, Bhagwat IP, Christofides N, Djibuti M, Dyalchand A et al Changing the debate about health research for development. International Health Research Awards Recipients. J Public Health Policy. 2004;25(3-4):259-87.
• Dyer SJ, Abrahams N, Mokoena NE & van der Spuy ZM.’You are a man because you have children’: Experiences, reproductive health knowledge and treatment-seeking behaviour among men suffering from couple infertility. Human Reproduction 2004. 19 (4) (pp960 -67).
  Jewkes R (2004) Child sexual abuse and HIV infection. In: Richter L, Dawes A & Higson-Smith C (eds) The sexual abuse of young children in Southern Africa. HSRC, Cape Town.  p.130-142.
• Abrahams N, Martin LJ & Vetten L. (2004) An overview of gender-based violence in South Africa and South African responses. In S Suffla, A Van Niekerk, N Duncan (Eds),  Crime , violence and Injury prevention in South Africa. Developments and Challenges (pp40 -64), Medical Research Council – University of South Africa.
• Jewkes R (2004) Child sexual abuse and HIV infection. In: Richter L, Dawes A & Higson-Smith C (eds) The sexual abuse of young children in Southern Africa. HSRC, Cape Town.  p.130-142.
• Jewkes R (2004) Evaluating community development initiatives in health promotion. In: Thorogood M & Coombes Y (eds)(second edition) Evaluating health promotion: practice & methods. Oxford University Press. Pp.123-134
• Jewkes R (2004) Evaluation interventions to prevent intimate partner violence In: Thorogood M & Coombes Y (eds) (second edition) Evaluating health promotion: practice & methods. Oxford University Press. Pp111-121

2003

• Jewkes R, Levin J, Penn-Kekana L. Gender inequalities, intimate partner violence and HIV preventive practices: findings of a South African cross-sectional study. Social Science & Medicine. 2003, 56(1), 125-34
• Brown H, Jewkes R, Dickson Tetteh K, Levin J, Rees H. Management of incomplete abortion in South African public hospitals. British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2003; 110: 371-7.
• Dickson Tetteh K, Jewkes R, Brown H, Levin J, Rees H, Mavuya L (2003) Implementation of South Africa’s 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act: service provision after three years. Studies in Family Planning 34(4), 277-284 

2002

• Jewkes R, Levin J, Bradshaw D, Mbananga N. Rape of girls in  South Africa. The Lancet. 2002;359:319-320.
• Jewkes R Domestic violence: how can it be prevented? (Editorial) British Medical Journal 2002; 324:253-4
• Jewkes R. Intimate partner violence: causation and primary prevention. The Lancet 2002;359:1423-29.
• Jewkes R, Abrahams N The epidemiology of rape and sexual coercion in South Africa: an overview. Social Science & Medicine 2002; 55:153-166.
• Jewkes R Preventing sexual violence: a rights based approach. The Lancet 2002;360:1092-3
• Jewkes R, Martin L, Penn-Kekana L. The virgin cleansing myth: cases of child rape are not exotic. The Lancet 2002;359:711.
• Jewkes R, Sen P, Garcia Moreno C.  (2002) Sexual Violence. In: Krug EG et al (Eds) World Health Report on Violence and Health. World Health Organization, Geneva, 2002..pp 148-181.
• Wood K, Jewkes R. ‘Dangerous’ love: reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth. In: Cornwall A (ed) Readings in Gender in Africa, International African Institute Press, London. (in press)
• Jewkes R, Penn-Kekana L, Levin J. Risk factors for domestic violence: findings from a South African cross-sectional study. Social Science and Medicine 2002; 55, 1603-1618
• Jacobs T, Jewkes R Vezimfihlo: a model for health sector response to gender violence in South Africa. International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2002; Sep;78 Suppl 1:S51-6.
• Jewkes R, Brown H, Dickson-Tetteh K,  Levin J, Rees H.Prevalence of morbidity associated with abortion before and after legislation in South Africa. British Medical Journal 2002; 324:1252-3.
• Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Mvo Z. Indigenous healing practices and self-medication amongst pregnant women in Cape Town. African Journal of Reproductive Health 2002; 2:79-8
• Dyer SJ, Abrahams N, Hoffman M, van der Spuy ZM. (2002). Men leave me as I cannot have children: Women’s experiences with involuntary childlessness. Human Reproduction. 17(6):1663‑8.
• Dyer SJ, Abrahams N, Hoffman M, van der Spuy ZM. (2002). Infertility in South Africa. Women’s Reproductive health knowledge and treatment-seeking
• Jewkes R, Nduna M, Jama N (2002) Stepping Stones. A training manual for sexual and reproductive health, communication and relationship skills. Edition two. . Published by Medical Research Council, Pretoria.

2001

• Wood K, Jewkes R. (2001) ‘Dangerous’ love: reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth. In: Morrell R (ed) Changing men in Southern Africa. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg and Zed Press, London. pp. 317-336.
• Wood K, Jewkes R Violence, rape and sexual coercion: everyday love in a South African township. In: Whitehead S, Barrett F (eds) A reader on Masculinities. Polity Press, Cambridge. 2001.
• Jewkes R, Vundule C, Maforah F, Jordaan E (2001) Relationship dynamics and adolescent pregnancy in South Africa. Social Science and Medicine 52 (5), 733-744.
• Vundule C, Maforah NF, Jewkes R, Jordaan E (2001) Risk factors for teenage pregnancy amongst African adolescents in metropolitan Cape Town: a case control study. South African Medical Journal 91,73-80.
• Jewkes R, Penn-Kekana L, Levin J, Ratsaka M, Schrieber M. Prevalence of emotional, physical and sexual abuse of women in three South African Provinces. South African Medical Journal 2001; 91(5):421-428.
• Abrahams N, Jewkes R, Mzo Z The role of the midwife in health care seeking behaviour of pregnant women in South Africa. Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health 2001; 46(4): 240-7
• Jewkes R 2001 Reflections on gender violence in the South African public health agenda. Development 44(3), 64-68.

2000

• Jewkes R, Watts C, Abrahams N, Penn-Kekana L, Garcia-Moreno C. (2000) Ethical and methodological issues in conducting  research on gender-based violence in Southern Africa. Reproductive Health Matters. 8, 93-103.
• Jewkes R (2000) Violence against women in South Africa. International Clinical Psychopathology  15 (suppl 3), 37-45.
• de Jonge E, Jewkes R, Levin J, Rees H. RCT of the efficacy of misoprostol as a cervical ripening agent prior to first trimester TOP. South African Medical Journal 2000; 90:256-262.
• Jewkes R. Evaluating community development initiatives in health promotion. In: Thorogood  M & Coombes Y (eds). Evaluating health promotion: practice & methods. Oxford University Press. 2000.
• [Jewkes R. ] The HIV/AIDS Emergency. Guidelines for educators. Department of Education, Pretoria, 2000.

1999

• Jewkes R, Wood K. Problematizing pollution: dirty wombs, ritual pollution and pathological processes. Medical Anthropology 1999;18:163-186.

1998

• Jewkes R. Book Review. ‘What makes women sick? (book review) By L.Doyal’ Social Science and Medicine. 1998:46;1252.
• Wood K, Maforah F, Jewkes R. ‘He forced me to love him’: putting violence on the adolescent sexual health agenda. Social Science and Medicine 1998; 47:233-242.
• Wood K, Jewkes R. Opportunities and threats in proposed changes to birth and death registration. South African Medical Journal 1998; 88:28-9.
• Jewkes R, Wood K. Competing discourses of vital registration and personhood: perspectives from rural South Africa. Social Science & Medicine 1998;46 :1043-56.
• Jewkes R, Abrahams N, Mvo Z. Why do nurses abuse patients?: reflections from South African obstetric services. Social Science and Medicine 1998, 47, 1781-1795.
• Jewkes R, Murcott A. Community representatives: representing the “community”? Social Science and Medicine 1998;46 :843-858.
• Hoosain M, Jewkes R, Maphumalo S. Gender audit of health research: 10 years of the South African Medical Journal. South African Medical Journal 1998; 88: 982-985.
• Jewkes R, Cornwall A (1998) Stepping Stones. A training manual for sexual and reproductive health, communication and relationship skills. Adaptation for South Africa. Published by Medical Research Council and PPASA, Pretoria.

1997

• Fawcus S, McIntyre J, Jewkes R, Rees H, Katzenellenbogen J, Shabodien R et al Management of incomplete abortions by South African public hospitals. South African Medical Journal 1997: 87;438-442.
• Wood K, Jewkes R Violence, rape and sexual coercion: everyday love in a South African township. Gender and Development 1997;5:41-46.
• Jewkes R, Wood K, Maforah F. Backstreet abortion in South Africa. South African Medical Journal 1997: 87; 417-418.
• Rees H, Katzenellenbogen J,  Shabodien R,  Jewkes R, Fawcus S,  McIntyre J et al. The Epidemiology of Incomplete Abortion in South Africa. South African Medical Journal 1997: 87; 432-438.
• Maforah F, Wood K, Jewkes R. Backstreet abortion: women’s experiences. Curationis 1997;20:79-82.
• Jewkes R, Fawcus S, Rees H, Lombard C. The South African Incomplete Abortion Study: Methodological issues. Studies in Family Planning 1997;28:228-234.
• Abrahams N, Wood K, Jewkes R. Barriers to cervical screening: women’s and health workers’ perceptions Curationis 1997; 20: 50-52.
• Wood K, Jewkes R, Abrahams N. ‘Cleaning the womb’: constructions of cervical screening and womb cancer among rural Black women in South Africa. Social Science and Medicine 1997;45:283-294.
• Wood K, Jewkes R, Maepa J. Barriers to access and provision of effective and appropriate contraceptive services for adolescents in the Northern Province: patient and provider perspectives. South African Medical Journal (Public Health Supplement) 1997; 87(8):1031

1996

• Wood K, Jewkes R, Lewin S, Mvo Z, Hoosain M, McCoy D Assessment of alleged rape victims. South African Medical Journal 1996;86: 842-3 (letter).
• Jewkes R. Researching cultural differences in health. Book Review . Journal of Public Health Medicine. 1996:18;495.
• Jewkes R, Murcott A. Meanings of community. Social Science and Medicine 1996;43:555-563.
  

1995

• Jewkes R. Quality improvement in health services: time for appropriate managerial technology. South African Medical Journal 1995;85:985-6.
• Cornwall A, Jewkes R. What is participatory research? Social Science and Medicine 1995:41;1667-1676.