Category Archives: Ethnoracial communities

Effect of race and/or ethnicity in use of antiretrovirals and prophylaxis for opportunistic infection: A review of the literature

2002

OBJECTIVE: The authors performed a systematic and critical review of published studies investigating potential associations between race and/or ethnicity and use of HIV-related medications, including antiretroviral medications and medications used...

Meta-analyses on behavioral interventions to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV

2009

Different behavioral interventions have found to be efficacious in reducing high-risk sexual activity. Interventions have been evaluated in both original research and meta-analytic reviews. Most of the studies have shown...

Meta-analysis of the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions for women

2002

The present study is a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions for women in the USA. Twenty-four articles from 1989-1997 were included. We evaluated five ethnic groupings (All...

Explaining racial disparities in HIV/AIDS incidence among women in the U.S.: A systematic review

2008

Surveillance data indicate that HIV incidence among Black women is more than 20 times that among White women and more than 4 times that among Hispanic women. Several studies have...

A systematic review of HIV/AIDS survival and delayed diagnosis among Hispanics in the United States

2012

HIV/AIDS disproportionately affects Hispanics. Our objective was to determine the risk of late diagnosis and rate of survival after HIV/AIDS diagnosis among Hispanics compared to other racial/ethnic groups. We performed...

Evaluating HIV/AIDS disparities for blacks in the United States: A review of antiretroviral and mortality studies

2009

The purpose of this systematic review was to identify studies that evaluated HIV/AIDS disparities by examining differences in the receipt of antiretroviral therapy and differences in mortality between blacks and...

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...

Behavioral interventions to reduce HIV-related sexual risk behavior: review and synthesis of meta-analytic evidence

2008

Over the past 25 years, scores of behavioral interventions to reduce HIV-related sexual risk behavior have been developed and evaluated. The purpose of the current study was to synthesize what...

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...

The efficacy of behavioral interventions in reducing HIV risk sex behaviors and incident sexually transmitted disease in black and Hispanic sexually transmitted disease clinic patients in the United States: a meta-analytic review

2007

OBJECTIVES: Interventions targeting sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinic patients provide an important opportunity to modify high-risk sex behaviors related to HIV/STD transmission. Identifying efficacious interventions for blacks and Hispanics is...

HIV testing in community settings in resource-rich countries: A systematic review of the evidence

2012

OBJECTIVES: Community HIV testing represents an opportunity for diagnosing HIV infection among individuals who may not have contact with health services, especially in hard-to-reach groups. The aim of this review...

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...

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