Category Archives: Education

Mental health and resilience in HIV/AIDS-affected children: A review of the literature and recommendations for future research

2013

BACKGROUND: To date, research on mental health in HIV-affected children (children who have an HIV-positive caregiver or live with the virus themselves) has focused on risk factors associated with the...

Sociocultural and epidemiological aspects of HIV/AIDS in Mozambique

2010

Background. A legacy of colonial rule coupled with a devastating 16-year civil war through 1992 left Mozambique economically impoverished just as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic swept over southern...

HIV: Associated transmission risks in older adults – An integrative review of the literature

2004

Recent evidence suggests that transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is increasing among late middle-aged and older adults (50 years of age or older). However, research studies explaining the unique...

Complex interventions to improve the health of people with limited literacy: A systematic review

2009

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the published literature on the effects of complex (multi-faceted) interventions intended to improve the health-related outcomes of individuals with limited literacy or numeracy. METHODS: We undertook a...

Supervised and unsupervised self-testing for HIV in high- and low-risk populations: A systematic review.

2013

BACKGROUND: Stigma, discrimination, lack of privacy, and long waiting times partly explain why six out of ten individuals living with HIV do not access facility-based testing. By circumventing these barriers,...

Universal voluntary HIV testing in antenatal care settings: A review of the contribution of provider-initiated testing & counselling

2012

Objective To assess the contribution of provider-initiated testing and counselling (PITC) to achieving universal testing of pregnant women and, from available data on components of PITC, assess whether PITC adoption...

A review of the literature on event-level substance use and sexual risk behavior among men who have sex with men

2012

In the United States, there continues to be high incidence of HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM), who represent 57% of new infections in 2009. While...

The impact of education on sexual behavior in sub-Saharan Africa: A review of the evidence

2012

Many studies have attempted to determine the relationship between education and HIV status. However, a complete and causal understanding of this relationship requires analysis of its mediating pathways, focusing on...

Behavioral interventions to reduce incidence of HIV, STD, and pregnancy among adolescents: A decade in review

2004

PURPOSE: To review adolescent sexual risk-reduction programs that were evaluated using quasi-experimental or experimental methods and published in the 1990s. We describe evaluated programs and identify program and evaluation issues...

Neurocognitive impairment in HIV-1-infected adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2013

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the burden of HIV neurocognitive impairment (NCI) among adult patients on and off antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: Estimates were derived from a random effects...

HIV among out-of-school youth in Eastern and Southern Africa: A review

2012

The overall decline of the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa conceals how the HIV burden has shifted to fall on areas that have been more difficult to reach. This review...

The impact of HIV/AIDS on children’s educational outcome: A critical review of global literature

2012

The number of children losing one or both parents to HIV/AIDS has continued to rise in the past decade, with most of them being school-aged children. This study reviews global...

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