Category Archives: General HIV- population
Reviews on HIV- people that explore topics including risk, screening, and prevention
Costs of implementing community-based intervention for HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review
BACKGROUND: Community-based interventions (CBIs) are interventions aimed at improving the well-being of people in a community. CBIs for HIV testing seek to increase the availability of testing services to populations...
Multiplexed technologies for sexually transmitted infections: Global evidence on patient-centered and clinical health outcomes
INTRODUCTION: Conventional care packages around screening for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) entail multiple clinic visits and precipitate losses to follow-up. To prevent these losses, multiplexed technologies for STIs (immunochromatographic tests/devices/assays...
ART initiations following community-based distribution of HIV self-tests: Meta-analysis and meta-regression of STAR Initiative data
INTRODUCTION: Measuring linkage after community-based testing, particularly HIV self-testing (HIVST), is challenging. Here, we use data from studies of community-based HIVST distribution, conducted within the STAR Initiative, to assess initiation...
The effect of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate on bone mineral density: A systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis (CRD#42017070552) to quantify the impact of oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) on bone mineral density (BMD) and the risk of osteoporosis, low...
Neuropsychological effects of direct-acting antiviral treatment for HCV subjects: A systematic review
Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have been approved in recent years to treat patients infected by the Hepatitis C virus (HCV). The DAAs treatment is well tolerated and increases sustained virological response...
Risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis B and D virus co-infected patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection causes a severe chronic viral hepatitis with accelerated development of liver cirrhosis and decompensation, but whether it further increases the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)...
Effectiveness of HIV stigma interventions for men who have sex with men (MSM) with and without HIV in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analyses
Stigma may contribute to HIV disparities for men who have sex with men (MSM). This systematic review quantified the effects of HIV stigma interventions for MSM on stigma and sex...
Health system adaptations and considerations to facilitate optimal oral pre-exposure prophylaxis scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa
Following WHO’s 2015 recommendation, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have progressively scaled up oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as part of combination HIV prevention. PrEP has potential to significantly reduce new HIV...
Laboratory (non-rapid) HIV testing in the emergency department: Methods, outcomes, and effectiveness
There is a large body of evidence examining best practices, outcomes, impact, and other aspects of laboratory (non-rapid) HIV testing in emergency departments (EDs). Many studies have identified missed opportunities...
A review of structural, process, and outcome measures for supervised consumption services
A 2019 systematic review identified several types of outcomes from scientific literature that guide assessment of SCS, including: usage by high-risk individuals, safe injection practice, overdose management, uptake of treatment...
Digital health for sexually transmitted infection and HIV services: A global scoping review
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The current study aimed to review how digital health has been used for sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV prevention, testing, and treatment. RECENT FINDINGS: A scoping review was...
Characterising HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes in the Middle East and North Africa: Systematic review and data synthesis
This article reviews HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes in various population groups in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and highlights their relevance to HIV epidemiology and the design and...
