Category Archives: General HIV- population

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

Task shifting and task sharing implementation in Africa: A scoping review on rationale and scope

2023

Numerous studies have reported task shifting and task sharing due to various reasons and with varied scopes of health services, either task-shifted or -shared. However, very few studies have mapped...

A scoping review of knowledge, awareness, perceptions, attitudes, and risky behaviors of sexually transmitted infections in Southeast Asia

2023

This scoping review synthesizes literature to examine the extent of research focusing on knowledge, awareness, perceptions, attitudes, and risky behaviors related to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Southeast Asia (SEA)....

Communicable diseases prevalence among refugees and asylum seekers: Systematic review and meta-analysis

2023

BACKGROUND: Communicable diseases remain a significant global health issue. The increase in refugees and asylum seekers associated with conflicts may alter the burden of communicable diseases in host countries. We...

The innovative use of qualitative and mixed methods research to advance improvements along the HIV prevention and care continua

2022

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Despite enormous advances in prevention and care modalities, HIV continues to burden populations around the globe and is largely driven by social and behavioral processes. Mixed methods...

What factors are associated with willingness to use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among U.S. men who have sex with nen not on PrEP? A systematic review and meta-analysis

2023

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an antiretroviral medication to prevent HIV, is becoming more widely available in the United States since the Federal Drug Administration approved it in 2012. However, PrEP use...

Acceptability, feasibility, and efficacy of telehealth interventions for HIV testing and treatment in adult populations

2023

Introduction: The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) led to the rapid adoption of telehealth to provide HIV care and treatment. However, limited information exists about the...

A scoping review of methods used to assess medication adherence in patients with chronic conditions

2022

BACKGROUND: Medication nonadherence of patients with chronic conditions is a complex phenomenon contributing to increased economic burden and decreased quality of life. Intervention development relies on accurately assessing adherence but...

Health care providers’ views on clinic infrastructure and practice models that may facilitate HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) prescribing: A qualitative meta-synthesis

2022

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective biomedical HIV prevention tool. Increasing PrEP use among populations disproportionately affected by HIV is one of the key efforts in...

The use of electronic medical records to prompt HIV testing

2022

Key take-home message Canada has met The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) goal of testing 90% of all people living with HIV; however, an estimated 6,950 people living...

Global prevalence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection in pregnant women: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2023

Background: Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection (gonorrhoea) is associated with several pregnancy complications, including preterm labour, spontaneous abortion, stillbirth, miscarriage, growth retardation, and intrauterine death. Objectives: We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to...

Assessment of online self-testing and self-sampling service providers for sexually transmitted infections against national standards in the UK in 2020

2023

OBJECTIVES: Online testing for STIs may help overcome barriers of traditional face-to-face testing, such as stigma and inconvenience. However, regulation of these online tests is lacking, and the quality of...

HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for transgender and nonbinary persons. Literature review and guidelines for professionals

2022

Transgender and nonbinary (TG/NB) persons are listed as one of the key populations in the context of HIV, due to increased risk of HIV infection in this group. HIV prevention,...

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