Category Archives: General HIV- population

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

Substance use and adherence to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in studies enrolling men who have sex with men and transgender women: A systematic review

2022

Optimal adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is critical, but challenging. Men who have sex with men and transgender women have high rates of HIV incidence and substance use. Substance use...

Factors associated with the involvement of women drug users in risky sexual behaviors: A narrative review

2022

BACKGROUND: Drug use is known as an important underlying factor in the occurrence of risky sexual behaviors. The present study was conducted to identify the factors associated with the involvement...

Does voluntary medical male circumcision reduce HIV risk in men who have sex with men?

2022

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review the evidence on the effect of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) on reducing HIV risk among men who have sex with men (MSM) and assess...

Determinants of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation in transgender populations: A qualitative scoping review

2022

We conducted a scoping review of contextual factors impeding uptake and adherence to pre-exposure prophylaxis in transgender communities as an in-depth analysis of the transgender population within a previously published...

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of Leptospirosis in HIV uninfected and in people living with HIV from the Southern African Development Community

2022

BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is an occupational, neglected febrile disease of bacterial origin transmitted between humans and animals. In this manuscript we summarize available data on Leptospira infection in HIV uninfected and...

Barriers and facilitators to primary care engagement for people who inject drugs: A systematic review

2022

INTRODUCTION: People who inject drugs (PWID) have a greater burden of multimorbid chronic diseases than the general population. However, little attention has been paid to the engagement in primary care...

An overview of programmatic indicators to monitor the roll-out of HIV preexposure prophylaxis

2023

Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is increasingly implemented in national HIV prevention programmes through routine care. Monitoring will be vital to understand whether programmes succeed in engaging people into using PrEP appropriately,...

The effects of intimate partner violence on women’s risk of HIV acquisition and engagement in the HIV treatment and care cascade: A pooled analysis of nationally representative surveys in sub-Saharan Africa

2023

Background Achieving the 95-95-95 targets for HIV diagnosis, treatment, and viral load suppression to end the HIV epidemic hinges on eliminating structural inequalities, including intimate partner violence (IPV). Sub-Saharan Africa...

Characterizing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV PrEP care: A review and synthesis of the literature

2022

The global COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown measures have caused disruptions to sexual health services and created additional barriers to the continuity of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among key populations....

Associations between the prevalence of chronic hepatitis B among people who inject drugs and country-level characteristics: An ecological analysis

2023

Introduction: Globally, hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a leading cause of liver disease. People who inject drugs (PWID) are at greater risk than the general population of contracting HBV. This risk...

Prevalence of sexualized drug use and risk of HIV among sexually active MSM in East and South Asian countries: Systematic review and meta-analysis

2023

Introduction: Sexualized drug use (SDU), the use of psychoactive drugs in the context of sexual intercourse, has been identified as a risk factor for HIV among men who have sex with...

Interventions to increase the uptake and continuation of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) by adolescent girls and young women at high risk of HIV in low-income and middle-income countries: A scoping review

2022

INTRODUCTION: Effective strategies to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and continuation among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who engage in sex work or transactional sex are sparsely reported. We...

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