Employment is a social determinant of health that is important for understanding health behaviors, health outcomes and HIV transmission among people living with HIV. This study is a scoping review...
Barriers to HIV testing uptake among men in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
2020
Introduction: HIV testing among men remains low globally and in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in particular, when compared with their female counterparts. The aim of this study was to synthesis evidence...
Barriers to the wider use of pre-exposure prophylaxis in the United States: A narrative review
2020
Antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV transmission was first approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2012. Despite correlations of decreases in new HIV infections being greatest...
Knowledge gaps of STIs in Africa; Systematic review
2019
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are ambiguous burden of tremendous health, social and economic consequences. The current systematic review was conducted in order to determine awareness and knowledge of Africans toward...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against HIV-positive women in sub-Saharan Africa: A mixed-method systematic review and meta-analysis
2020
OBJECTIVES: To systematically analyze and summarize the literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) against HIV-positive women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and to identify their risk factors for IPV. METHOD: A...
Predictors of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among PLHIV
2019
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is of paramount importance to achieve the optimum control of viral load and progression of disease among people living with HIV (PLHIV). An overview of...
Prevention of cardiovascular disease for historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups living with HIV: A narrative review of the literature
2020
Despite developments to improve health in the United States, racial and ethnic disparities persist. These disparities have profound impact on the wellbeing of historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups. This...
A scoping review of interventions to address intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan African healthcare
2019
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread global health problem, with negative effects on women’s health and HIV transmission and treatment. There is little evidence on how to address IPV...
Undernutrition among Ethiopian adults living with HIV: A meta-analysis
2020
Background: Malnutrition and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are interlaced in a vicious cycle and worsened in low and middle-income countries. In Ethiopia, even though individuals are dually affected by both...
The PrEP care continuum and black men who have sex with men: A scoping review of published data on awareness, uptake, adherence, and retention in PrEP care
2019
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has demonstrated high efficacy to reduce HIV infections, however, racial/ethnic HIV disparities continue among black MSM. The purpose of this review was to assess available data to...
Self-silencing and women’s health: A review
2019
The connection between gender and health has intrigued health professionals in the last few decades. Silencing-the-self theory has brought a considerable clarity in this matter. After around three decades of...
The role of networks in racial disparities in HIV incidence among men who have sex with men in the United States
2020
Network factors have been proposed as potential drivers of racial disparities in HIV among Black and Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). This review aimed to synthesize the...
