Dr. Sithabile Mngadi-Ncube

Sithabile Mngadi-Ncube is a public health researcher focused on HIV prevention, care engagement, and sexual and reproductive health in South Africa. Her work centers on vulnerable and mobile populations, including migrant men and school-going adolescents in Gauteng and Johannesburg. Through community-based and school-based studies, she contributes evidence to strengthen equitable access to essential health services.

Her research on migrant men in Johannesburg highlights structural and mobility-related barriers to HIV care, emphasizing residency status, service awareness, and health-seeking patterns. Complementing this, her work using discrete choice experiments explores adolescents’ preferences for HIV and contraceptive services, underscoring the importance of confidentiality, respectful providers, and youth-friendly environments in improving service uptake.

Across these publications, Mngadi-Ncube demonstrates strengths in quantitative analysis and implementation-oriented research, generating policy-relevant insights for service design. As the current body of published work is limited, this profile reflects available studies that collectively point to a sustained commitment to advancing inclusive, context-responsive HIV and reproductive health programming.