Category Archives: General HIV- population

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

Is sexual risk behaviour associated with an increased risk of transfusion-transmissible infections in blood donors from Western and Pacific countries? A systematic review and meta-analysis

2020

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The donor medical questionnaire is designed to aid blood establishments in supporting a safe blood supply. According to blood donor deferral policies, sexual risk behaviour (SRB) leads...

Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) continuation, measurement, and reporting: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2020

OBJECTIVE: To appropriately plan for rollout and monitor impact of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) it is important to understand PrEP continuation and come to a consensus on how best to...

Risk factors associated with seropositivity for Toxoplasma gondii in population-based studies among immunocompromised patients (pregnant women, HIV patients and children) in West African countries, Cameroon and Gabon: A meta-analysis

2020

Toxoplasmosis in immunocompromised individuals can be life threatening. The information needed for proper control and management strategies in endemic West African countries is lacking, hence a systematic review and meta-analysis...

A systematic review of recent methodological approaches for using ecological momentary assessment to examine outcomes in U.S. based HIV research

2020

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In recent years, researchers have been adopting and using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods via technology devices for real-time measurement of exposures and outcomes in HIV research....

Home-based care, the missing link in caring of patients living with HIV/AIDS and their family members: A narrative review

2020

Inconsistencies between the number of patients, qualified caregivers and lack of adequate services and resources in the healthcare systems for people living with HIV/AIDS have led to the idea of...

A review of usability evaluation methods and their use for testing eHealth HIV interventions

2020

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To provide a comprehensive review of usability testing of eHealth interventions for HIV. RECENT FINDINGS: We identified 28 articles that assessed the usability of eHealth interventions for...

A scoping review of employment and HIV

2020

Employment is a social determinant of health that is important for understanding health behaviors, health outcomes and HIV transmission among people living with HIV. This study is a scoping review...

Neurocysticercosis and HIV Infection: What can we learn from the published literature?

2019

OBJECTIVE: Infections caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and by the larvae of Taenia solium (i.e., cysticercosis) are still widespread in many developing countries. Both pathologies modify host immune...

Barriers to the wider use of pre-exposure prophylaxis in the United States: A narrative review

2020

Antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV transmission was first approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2012. Despite correlations of decreases in new HIV infections being greatest...

A scoping review of interventions to address intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan African healthcare

2019

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread global health problem, with negative effects on women’s health and HIV transmission and treatment. There is little evidence on how to address IPV...

Systematic review of peer-reviewed literature on global condom promotion programs

2020

Background: Globally, 1.7 million people were newly infected with HIV in 2018. Condoms are inexpensive, cost-effective, reduce HIV/STI incidence, morbidity, mortality, and unintended pregnancies, and result in health care cost...

Condom availability programs in schools: A review of the literature

2019

OBJECTIVE: This review synthesizes findings from the peer-reviewed evaluation literature on condom availability programs (CAPs) in secondary schools. DATA SOURCE: Peer-reviewed evaluation literature indexed in MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, ERIC, CINAHL,...

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