I was the Principal Investigator of a National Institute on Aging (NIA, NIH) funded project called HIV after 40 in rural South Africa: Aging in the Context of an HIV/AIDS epidemic. My team investigated the causes and consequences of the HIV epidemic among middle-aged and older adults as they aged in rural post-apartheid South Africa. You can find out more about the project here: https://hivafter40.princeton.edu/

Sample Publications

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Houle, Brian, Chodziwadziwa W Kabudula, Sanyu A. Mojola, Nicole Angotti, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Dickman Gareta, Kobus Herbst, Samuel J Clark, Jane Menken and Vladimir Canudas-Romo. 2024. Mortality variability and differentials by age and causes of death in rural South Africa, 1994 – 2018. British Medical Journal - Global Health, 2024; 9:e013539. https://gh.bmj.com/content/9/4/e013539

Yu, Shao-Tzu, Brian Houle, Enid Schatz, Nicole Angotti, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Samuel J. Clark, Jane Menken and Sanyu A. Mojola. 2024. Understanding Household Dynamics from the Ground Up: A Longitudinal Study from a Rural South African Setting. Demography. February 2024. 61(1): 31-57 https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-11145841

Angotti, Nicole, Sanyu A. Mojola, Yunwan Wen and Abby Ferdinando. 2023. Biomedical Bargains: Negotiating ‘Safe Sex’ on ART in Rural South Africa. Social Science and Medicine, Volume 330, August 2023, 116036. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116036

David, Ifeolu J., Enid Schatz, Nicole C. Angotti, Tyler W. Myroniuk and Sanyu A. Mojola. 2023. “I’m Getting Life from the Treatment”: Perceptions of Living and Dying on Antiretroviral Treatment among Older Medication-Adherent Persons Living with HIV in Rural South Africa. Journal of Aging and Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2023.2195348

Mojola, Sanyu A, Erin Ice, Enid Schatz, Nicole Angotti, Brian Houle and F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé. 2022. The Meaning of Health in Rural South Africa: Gender, The Life Course and the Socio-Epidemiological Context. Population and Development Review, December 2022 48(4): 1061-1095. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12494

Denardo, Danielle, Sanyu A. Mojola, Enid Schatz and F.Xavier Gómez-Olivé. 2022. Anti-Retroviral Therapy and Aging as Resources in Managing and Resisting HIV-Related Stigma in Rural South Africa Social Science and Medicine -Qualitative Research in Health, Volume 2, December 2022, 100148 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2022.100148

Ice, Erin, Sanyu A. Mojola, Nicole Angotti, F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé and Brian Houle. 2022 Making Sense of Troubled Livelihoods: Gendered Expectations and Poor Health Narratives in Rural South Africa. Gender and Society, Oct 2022 36(5): 735–763. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432221114877

Mojola, Sanyu A, Nicole Angotti, Enid Schatz and Brian Houle 2021. “A Nowadays Disease”: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in a rural South African community. American Journal of Sociology, November 2021. 127(3), 950-1000. https://doi.org/10.1086/718234

Mojola, Sanyu A, Nicole Angotti, Danielle Denardo, Enid Schatz and F. Xavier Gómez-Olivé 2020. The End of AIDS?  HIV and the New Landscape of Illness in Rural South Africa. Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1851743

Mojola, Sanyu A. and Nicole Angotti [joint first author]. 2019. “Sometimes it is not about men”: Gendered and Generational Discourses of Caregiving HIV transmission in a rural South African community.  Global Public Health. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31014204/