Category Archives: Children or Youth (less than 18 years old)

Sexual health education interventions for young people: A methodological review

1995

Objectives: To locate reports of sexual health education interventions for young people, assess the methodological quality of evaluations, identify the subgroup with a methodologically sound design, and assess the evidence...

The mental health of people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa: A systematic review

2009

This paper reviews published quantitative research on the mental health of HIV-infected adults in Africa. Twenty-seven articles published between 1994 and 2008 reported the results of 23 studies. Most studies...

Systematic review of abstinence-plus HIV prevention programs in high-income countries

2007

BACKGROUND: Abstinence-plus (comprehensive) interventions promote sexual abstinence as the best means of preventing HIV, but also encourage condom use and other safer-sex practices. Some critics of abstinence-plus programs have suggested...

Treatment for leiomyosarcoma and leiomyoma in children with HIV infection

2010

BACKGROUND: Smooth muscle tumour (SMT) composed of leiomyoma and leiomyosarcoma recently has been described in many HIV-infected children. Leiomyosarcoma has become the second most frequent malignancy in children with HIV...

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...

School-based HIV prevention programmes for African youth

2004

The high rate of HIV infection among youth in Africa has prompted both national and international attention. Education and prevention programmes are seen as the primary way of decreasing this...

HIV drug resistance assessment in the Western Pacific region. A systematic review

2011

Antiretroviral therapy is being rapidly scaled-up in Western Pacific region countries. Prevention and assessment of HIV drug resistance is an essential component of successful global antiretroviral therapy scale-up. We performed...

Lower HIV prevalence among Asian/Pacific Islander men who have sex with men: A critical review for possible reasons

2011

We conducted a critical literature review for possible reasons that may explain the lower HIV prevalence observed among API MSM compared to MSM of other races/ethnicities. Trends emerging from the...

A systematic review examining whether interventions are effective in reducing cognitive delay in children infected and affected with HIV

2014

Cognitive delay has been recorded in children infected and affected by HIV. This finding is well established, yet few countries report provision of special educational interventions for this group of...

The reproductive health behaviors of HIV-infected young women in the United States: A literature review.

2013

HIV-infected young women in the United States have important reproductive health needs that are made more complex by their HIV status. We searched Pubmed and relevant bibliographies to identify 32...

Neurodevelopment in children born to HIV-infected mothers by infection and treatment status

2012

BACKGROUND: We reviewed the impact of HIV, HIV exposure, and antiretroviral therapy/prophylaxis on neurodevelopmental outcomes of HIV-infected and HIV-exposed-uninfected infants and children. METHODS: A literature search of Medline, Embase, PsychINFO,...

Are peer interventions for HIV efficacious? A systematic review

2011

Behavioral interventions to prevent HIV or assist HIV-positive persons often incorporate peers, yet empirical support for their efficacy is only recently accumulating. We describe the results of a review of...

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