Category Archives: General HIV- population

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

Health Utility Estimates and Their Application to HIV Prevention in the United States: Implications for Cost-Effectiveness Modeling and Future Research Needs

2020

Objectives. Health utility estimates from the current era of HIV treatment, critical for cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) informing HIV health policy, are limited. We examined peer-reviewed literature to assess the appropriateness...

Association of cardiovascular disease and 10 other pre-existing comorbidities with COVID-19 mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2020

BACKGROUND: Estimating the risk of pre-existing comorbidities on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality may promote the importance of targeting populations at risk to improve survival. This systematic review and meta-analysis...

Combating HIV stigma in low- and middle-income healthcare settings: A scoping review

2020

INTRODUCTION: Nearly 40 years into the HIV epidemic, the persistence of HIV stigma is a matter of grave urgency. Discrimination (i.e. enacted stigma) in healthcare settings is particularly problematic as...

Interventions for Children with Neurocognitive Impairments in Resource-Limited Settings: A Systematic Review

2020

Many children and adolescents around the world suffer from neurocognitive deficits due to chronic disorders, such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and malaria. Resource-limited settings exacerbate the risk of negative...

Tools to measure HIV knowledge, attitudes & practices (KAPs) in healthcare providers: A systematic review

2020

Healthcare providers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAPs) related to HIV are important determinants of quality of care provided to HIV/AIDS patients. Most studies have focussed on low- and middle-income countries...

HIV prevalence in primary central nervous system lymphoma: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2020

HIV infection is considered a major risk factor for primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL). However, the percentage of PCNSL that occurs in HIVƒ_%+ƒ_%patients is not well defined. We aimed...

Oral mycobiome identification in atopic dermatitis, leukemia, and HIV patients — A systematic review

2020

INTRODUCTION: Oral mycobiome profiling is important to understand host-pathogen interactions that occur in various diseases. Invasive fungal infections are particularly relevant for patients who have received chemotherapy and for those...

Are Candida albicans isolates from the oral cavity of HIV-infected patients more virulent than from non-HIV-infected patients? Systematic review and meta-analysis

2020

Candida albicans is the main causative agent of oral lesions in HIV-infected patients and its oral colonization is a potential source of systemic dissemination. Although the high prevalence of lesions...

Acute and early HIV infection screening among men who have sex with men, a systematic review and meta-analysis

2020

INTRODUCTION: Screening for acute and early HIV infections (AEHI) among men who have sex with men (MSM) remains uncommon in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Yet, undiagnosed AEHI among MSM and subsequent...

Nature of, and responses to key sexual and reproductive health challenges for adolescents in urban slums in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

2020

BACKGROUND: Addressing adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) requires an understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial settings within which they live. One setting of particular importance is the...

Interventions to improve HIV care continuum outcomes among individuals released from prison or jail: Systematic literature review

2020

BACKGROUND: HIV care continuum outcomes deteriorate among people returning from incarceration. Interventions to improve care outcomes post-incarceration have been characterized by substantial heterogeneity in approach, outcome metrics, and results. A...

Diagnostic infectious diseases testing outside clinics: A global systematic review and meta-analysis

2020

BACKGROUND: Most people around the world do not have access to facility-based diagnostic testing, and the gap in availability of diagnostic tests is a major public health challenge. Self-testing, self-sampling,...

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