Category Archives: Abuse

A community empowerment approach to the HIV response among sex workers: Effectiveness, challenges, and considerations for implementation and scale-up

2015

A community empowerment-based response to HIV is a process by which sex workers take collective ownership of programmes to achieve the most effective HIV outcomes and address social and structural...

The effectiveness of home-based HIV counseling and testing on reducing stigma and risky sexual behavior among adults and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analyses

2015

BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus counselling and testing is a critical and essential gateway to Human immunodeficiency virus prevention, treatment, care and support services. Though some primary studies indicate that home-based...

Safer disclosure of HIV serostatus for women living with HIV who experience or fear violence: A systematic review

2015

INTRODUCTION: Supporting individuals as they disclose their HIV serostatus may lead to a variety of individual and public health benefits. However, many women living with HIV are hesitant to disclose...

A systematic review of the clinical and social epidemiological research among sex workers in Uganda

2015

BACKGROUND: In response to the high burden of disease among sex workers and their position as a population heavily affected by the HIV epidemic, there has been a growing body...

Sexual risk reduction interventions for HIV prevention among South African youth: A meta-analytic review

2013

OBJECTIVES: To examine the efficacy of sexual risk reduction interventions among South African youth. METHODS: Electronic databases were searched to identify studies published between 2007 and early 2013. Studies were...

State of the evidence: Intimate partner violence and HIV/STI risk among adolescents

2013

This paper provides a critical narrative review of the scientific literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) and risky sexual behavior as well as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents, aged...

The cost and cost-effectiveness of gender-responsive interventions for HIV: A systematic review

2014

INTRODUCTION: Harmful gender norms and inequalities, including gender-based violence, are important structural barriers to effective HIV programming. We assess current evidence on what forms of gender-responsive intervention may enhance the...

HIV, HCV, and health-related harms among women who inject drugs: Implications for prevention and treatment

2015

BACKGROUND: Although an estimated 3.5 million women inject drugs globally, women are outnumbered 4 to one by men who inject drugs and are often ignored or overlooked in the development...

Targeting the SAVA (Substance Abuse, Violence, and AIDS) syndemic among women and girls: A global review of epidemiology and integrated interventions

2015

OBJECTIVES: Multiple pathways link gender-based violence (GBV) to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among women and girls who use or inject drugs. The aim of this article is to...

Intimate partner violence and engagement in HIV care and treatment among women: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2015

OBJECTIVE: We aimed to estimate the odds of engagement in HIV care and treatment among HIV-positive women reporting intimate partner violence (IPV). DESIGN: We systematically reviewed the literature on the...

Syndemics of psychosocial problems and HIV risk: A systematic review of empirical tests of the disease interaction concept

2015

In the theory of syndemics, diseases co-occur in particular temporal or geographical contexts due to harmful social conditions (disease concentration) and interact at the level of populations and individuals, with...

Global epidemiology of HIV among women and girls who use or inject drugs: Current knowledge and limitations of existing data

2015

BACKGROUND: Women and girls who use and inject drugs are a critical population at risk of HIV. In this article, we review data on the epidemiology of drug use and...

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