Sex differences in adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy: A meta-analysis
2012
Observational studies have found that women tend to have lower adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) than men do, though no meta-analysis has yet investigated this trend. The aims...
Alcohol use and antiretroviral adherence: Review and meta-analysis
2009
BACKGROUND: Alcohol use is frequently implicated as a factor in nonadherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). There have not been efforts to systematically evaluate findings across studies. This meta-analysis...
Best-evidence interventions: Findings from a systematic review of HIV behavioral interventions for US populations at high risk, 2000-2004
2007
OBJECTIVES: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Synthesis Team conducted a systematic review of US-based HIV behavioral intervention research literature from 2000 through 2004 to identify...
Substitution treatment of injecting opioid users for prevention of HIV infection
2008
BACKGROUND: Injecting drug users are vulnerable to infection with HIV and other blood borne viruses as a result of collective use of injecting equipment as well as sexual behaviour. OBJECTIVES:...
Effectiveness of interventions to prevent sexually transmitted infections and human immunodeficiency virus in heterosexual men: A systematic review
2002
Our objective was to review systematically studies of interventions to prevent transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in heterosexual men. Of 1157 studies identified through...
Risk of window period hepatitis-C infection in high infectious risk donors: Systematic review and meta-analysis
2011
The OPTN classifies high infectious risk donors (HRDs) based on criteria originally intended to identify people at risk for HIV infection. These donors are sometimes referred to as ‘CDC high...
Epidemiology of HIV infection in the Middle East and North Africa
2010
OBJECTIVE: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to be perceived as a region with very limited HIV epidemiological data, raising many controversies about the status of the...
Ethical and regulatory considerations in HIV prevention studies employing respondent-driven sampling
2009
OBJECTIVE: To review the scientific, ethical, and regulatory literature because no official guidance exists on remuneration for participant-driven recruitment or on investigators’ responsibilities for informing participants of their discordant partnerships....
A review of HIV interventions for at-risk women
1997
This paper reviews published reports on primary prevention of sexual transmission of HIV with women from the beginning of the AIDS epidemic through March 1996. All reviewed interventions were conducted...
Risk of resistance to highly active antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive injecting drug users: A meta-analysis
2010
Although highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is an effective treatment for HIV, many physicians withhold this treatment from HIV-positive injecting drug users (IDUs) because of fears of non-adherence and consequent...
Tuberculosis, injecting drug use and integrated HIV-TB care: A review of the literature
2013
BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk of tuberculosis (TB) and reduced retention in treatment. There is a need to document strategies for integrated delivery of HIV,...
Towards an understanding of sexual risk behavior in people living with HIV: A review of social, psychological, and medical findings
