Category Archives: Mental Health

BACKGROUND: Women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) experience significant psychological burdens due to biological and gendered factors such as pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. However, a life course-based understanding of...

INTRODUCTION: Despite decades of HIV prevention efforts, key populations – MSM, transgender people, PWUD, sex workers, and migrants – remain disproportionately affected by HIV. Although prevention tools are widely available,...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Neurodevelopmental delays and neuroimaging abnormalities continue to be found in children, adolescents, and youth living with HIV despite the administration of effective combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). However,...

Objective: To explore evidence on physical activity counseling for people living with HIV (PLHIV). Methods: Searches covered earliest records in PubMed (1946), Embase (1947), Web of Science (1900), Scopus (1788), and LILACS...

People living with HIV (PLWH) face unique biopsychosocial challenges due to both infection and antiretroviral therapy (ART), one of which is body image disruption. This study comprehensively reviewed relevant studies...

PURPOSE: To comprehensively integrate qualitative findings on the reasons of late diagnosis in HIV/AIDS patients and to encourage timely clinic consultations for advisory purposes. METHODS: A qualitative systematic review utilizing...

BACKGROUND: More than half of people with HIV are now older than 50 years, and they face an approximately 60% higher risk of developing dementia compared with the general population....

Background Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is vital for controlling the viral load and disease progression in people living with HIV. Previous reviews on ART adherence among youths living with...

Older women living with HIV are uniquely situated at multiple marginalized intersections because of their gender, age, and HIV status. However, research into how gender-based stigma (GBS) affects HIV prevention...

AIM: To systematically integrate the psychosocial experiences and coping mechanisms of AIDS patients after the disease, and to understand their true feelings, in order to provide a basis for better...

INTRODUCTION: The syndemic framework provides a critical lens for understanding the complex interplay between HIV/AIDS, mental health (MH) conditions, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa. This scoping review explores how...

Despite the advent of ART and the conversion of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a chronic disease, little is known regarding the experiences of women living with HIV (WLWH) in...