Category Archives: General HIV- population

Reviews on HIV- people that explore topics including risk, screening, and prevention

Telephone consultation for improving health of people living with or at risk of HIV: A systematic review

2012

BACKGROUND: Low cost, effective interventions are needed to deal with the major global burden of HIV/AIDS. Telephone consultation offers the potential to improve health of people living with HIV/AIDS cost-effectively...

Association between HIV/AIDS and multi-drug resistance tuberculosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2014

BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR) is emerging as major challenge facing tuberculosis control programs worldwide particularly in Asia and Africa. Findings from different studies on associations...

Management of HIV-associated tuberculosis in resource-limited settings: A state-of-the-art review

2013

The HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB) epidemic remains a huge challenge to public health in resource-limited settings. Reducing the nearly 0.5 million deaths that result each year has been identified as a...

A systematic review of heterosexual anal intercourse and its role in the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in Papua New Guinea

2013

BACKGROUND: Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a high burden of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and the highest adult HIV prevalence in the Pacific region. Despite this burden of disease, heterosexual...

Microenterprise development interventions for sexual risk reduction: A systematic review

2013

Comprehensive interventions that address both individual and structural determinants associated with HIV/STI risk are gaining increasing attention over the past decade. Microenterprise development offers an appealing model for HIV prevention...

Nevirapine-based regimens in HIV-infected antiretroviral-naive patients: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

2013

BACKGROUND: Nevirapine belongs to the group of non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and is commonly administered in first-line treatment of HIV infection. OBJECTIVE: Systematic review and meta-analysis was undertaken to...

Acceptability of HIV self-testing: A systematic literature review

2013

BACKGROUND: The uptake of HIV testing and counselling services remains low in risk groups around the world. Fear of stigmatisation, discrimination and breach of confidentiality results in low service usage...

Barriers of enrolment in HIV vaccine trials: A review of HIV vaccine preparedness studies

2011

Barriers to participation in an HIV vaccine trial have been examined in many HIV vaccine preparedness studies (VPS). These barriers can be understood in terms of the locus of the...

Impact of parental HIV/AIDS on children’s psychological well-being: A systematic review of global literature

2013

This review examines the global literature regarding the impact of parental HIV/AIDS on children’s psychological well-being. Fifty one articles reporting quantitative data from a total of 30 studies were retrieved...

Consequences of HIV infection on malaria and therapeutic implications: A systematic review

2011

Despite recent changes in the epidemiology of HIV infection and malaria and major improvements in their control, these diseases remain two of the most important infectious diseases and global health...

Recent advances (2011-2012) in technology-delivered interventions for people living with HIV

2012

Technology is rapidly advancing and becoming a cost effective option for intervention delivery particularly for isolated and hard to reach populations, such as people living with HIV/AIDS. A systematic review...

Treatment of chronic hepatitis C in haemophilic patients with interferon and ribavirin: A meta-analysis

2008

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among haemophilic patients who were treated with clotting factor concentrates before the availability of virus-inactivated factors...

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