Category Archives: General HIV- population

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

Cost-effectiveness of HIV screening in high-income countries: A systematic review

2018

INTRODUCTION: Over 2 million people in high-income countries live with HIV. Early diagnosis and treatment present benefits for infected subjects and reduce secondary transmissions. Cost-effectiveness analyses are important to effectively...

Seroprevalence of HIV among pregnant women in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2018

OBJECTIVE: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to determine the pooled prevalence of HIV among pregnant women in Ethiopia. RESULT: PubMed, EMBASE, Science Direct and Google scholar databases were searched...

A meta-analysis and systematic literature review of factors associated with sexual risk-taking during international travel

2018

BACKGROUND: International travel facilitates global spread of sexually transmitted infections (STI). Travellers could contribute to onward transmission of pathogens rarely encountered at home and export new strains to the destination....

Elimination of HIV transmission through novel and established prevention strategies among people who inject drugs

2018

Despite the effectiveness of existing HIV prevention strategies for people who inject drugs (PWID), uncontrolled outbreaks of HIV among this group are common and occur around the world. In this...

Evolving models and ongoing challenges for HIV preexposure prophylaxis implementation in the United States

2018

BACKGROUND: The use of preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012, but delivery to at-risk persons has lagged. This critical review...

The willingness to participate in biomedical research involving human beings in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

2019

OBJECTIVES: To systematically review reasons for the willingness to participate in biomedical human subjects research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). METHODS: Five databases were systematically searched for articles published...

Economic evaluations of pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV

2019

Key take-home messages Economic evaluations of health care interventions can inform resource allocation and policy development. However, interpreting and generalizing results can be challenging. PrEP can be cost-effective or cost-saving...

Transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis in HIV-endemic settings

2018

The emergence and expansion of the multidrug-resistant tuberculosis epidemic is a threat to the global control of tuberculosis. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is the result of the selection of resistance-conferring mutations during...

Academic achievement and psychosocial needs of children affected by or infected with HIV/AIDS

2010

Key take-home messages There is very little research that directly examines the long-term academic achievement or the psychosocial needs of children affected by HIV. Of the studies that do exist...

Impact of successful hepatitis C treatment on quality of life

2016

Key take-home messages People living with HCV who receive treatment and achieve sustained virologic response (SVR) have better healthrelated quality of life scores than people who do not respond to...

HIV testing within general practices in Europe: A mixed-methods systematic review

2018

BACKGROUND: Late diagnosis of HIV infection remains a key challenge in Europe. It is acknowledged that general practitioners (GPs) may contribute greatly to early case finding, yet there is evidence...

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of screening for HIV in migrants in the EU/EEA: A systematic review

2018

Migrants, defined as individuals who move from their country of origin to another, account for 40% of newly-diagnosed cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the European Union/European Economic Area...

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