Papers by Marcus Hollington
Research Square (Research Square), Dec 29, 2022
Background: South Africa is one of the most tuberculosis-burdened countries in the world. As an e... more Background: South Africa is one of the most tuberculosis-burdened countries in the world. As an emerging economic powerhouse in the continent, the country’s highly industrialized landscape provides both opportunity and probable morbidity/mortality in a “developmental disease-induced paradox” wherein development provisions better quality of life for beneficiaries whilst simultaneously making them more susceptible to disease as a result thereof. This study examines the association between employment-based exposure to hazardous substances and tuberculosis diagnosis among men aged between 18 and 65 years in South Africa. Methods: The study used data from the South Africa Demography and Health Survey. It constituted a sample size of 1,532 working-age men between 18 and 65 years. Bivariate regression was used to examine the relationship between employment-based exposure to hazardous substances and diagnosis of tuberculosis. Thereafter, an adjusted binary regression model was employed to e...
Background There is an increased risk of cervical cancer among women living with HIV. While studi... more Background There is an increased risk of cervical cancer among women living with HIV. While studies have long examined the association between cervical cancer among women with HIV, no study has examined the time taken for women with HIV to undergo cervical cancer screening as well as the hazard thereof in South Africa. Methods The study used cross-sectional data from the 2016 South Africa Demographic and Health Survey. To allow for longitudinal analysis and to address the issue of right-censoring, the data was reformatted to a person-data file. The selection criteria were limited to women living with HIV (WLHIV) who had also responded to the question on cervical cancer screening. Descriptive statistics were employed to show the levels of HIV among women aged 15 and older in South Africa. Additionally, Kaplan‒Meier curves were employed to investigate the time to CCS by WLHIV in South Africa. Thereafter, an unadjusted Cox hazards regression model was employed to examine the hazard of ...
The Thinker, 2021
This article takes stock of the state of intra-continental trade in Africa by reviewing trends in... more This article takes stock of the state of intra-continental trade in Africa by reviewing trends in the continent’s five sub-regional trading blocs in terms of their strengths and shortcomings, in order to assess the continent’s trade efficiency on an intra-regional level ahead of the rollout of a continent-wide free trade area. Thereafter, the article assesses trade indicators seen over the past decade to illustrate the amount of goods traded to prognosticate the future of intra-continental trade on the continent in the wake of discussing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Implications for youth are cast in the wider imperatives of the continent’s developmental agenda and post-Covid-19 economic recovery.
Digital Policy Studies
This paper /study examines the relationship between internet penetration and perceptions of corru... more This paper /study examines the relationship between internet penetration and perceptions of corruption in African countries. In particular, it assesses the potential of the former to address the latter, which has crippled economic growth and development for decades. The way in which corruption has seeped into the continent’s responses to the Covid-19 pandemic underscores that combating corruption is more urgent than ever before. Utilising correlation analysis, this study finds that there is a positive correlation between IP and perceptions of corruption. It concludes with recommendations for combating corruption in Africa and its regressive effects on the continent’s socio-economic development.
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Papers by Marcus Hollington