Category Archives: General HIV- population

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

Examining concordance between self-report and biomedical HIV viral load data: A scoping review

2023

Assessment of HIV viral load based on laboratory results is the gold standard in HIV care and research. However, blood assay or accessing medical records is not always possible due...

Safety and efficacy of long-acting injectable agents for HIV-1: Systematic review and meta-analysis

2023

Background: HIV-1 infection continues to affect global health. Although antiretrovirals can reduce the viral load or prevent HIV-1 infection, current drugs require daily oral use with a high adherence level. Long-acting...

Virtual avatars as a new tool for human immunodeficiency virus prevention among men who have sex with men: A narrative review

2023

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to affect sexual and gender minorities, predominantly men who have sex with men (MSM). Stigma, medical mistrust, and apprehension towards discussing sexual...

Post-exposure prophylaxis against blood-borne viral infections among health care workers: A bibliometric analysis

2022

Background: Health care workers face a wide range of chemical, physical, and biological occupational hazards in their jobs. Objective: The present study aimed to investigate research trends on post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) against...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) and sexualised drug use among men who have sex with men: A systematic review

2023

Drug-related harms, including harms from sexualised drug use (SDU), are disproportionately experienced by sexual and gender minority people, relative to their majority counterparts. Chemsex, a type of SDU practiced mainly...

Gay community involvement and the sexual health behaviors of sexual minority men: A systematic review and directions for future research

2023

AbstractConsiderable research has examined how involvement in gay-affiliated communities is associated with sexual health behaviors in sexual minority men (i.e., gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men),...

Integration of sexually transmitted infection and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis services in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

2023

BACKGROUND: Persons living in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face disproportionate risk from overlapping epidemics of HIV and bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for prevention is gradually being scaled...

Preferences for oral- vs blood-based human immunodeficiency virus self-testing: A scoping review of the literature

2023

BACKGROUND: The evidence on preferences for oral- vs blood-based human immunodeficiency virus self-testing (HIVST) has been heterogenous and inconclusive. In addition, most evaluations have relied on hypothetical or stated use...

Using a structural-ecological model to facilitate adoption of preexposure prophylaxis among latinx sexual minority men: A systematic literature review

2023

Research has consistently shown that individual, interpersonal, community and structural factors influence the degree to which individuals’ access and utilize health care services, and these factors may play a role...

Best practices to increase engagement and retention in hepatitis C care among people who use drugs

2023

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Doxycycline prophylaxis for the prevention of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

2023

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The burden of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis in older adults in the United States: A systematic review

2023

BACKGROUND: Increases in life expectancy, the availability of sexual performance enhancing medication, and changes in sexual partnering suggest that sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among older persons could be on the...

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