Reviews on HIV- people that explore topics including risk, screening, and prevention
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...
Impact of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder on HIV risk
2010
Key take-home messages No key take-home messages identified, as we were unable to find any systematic reviews or articles which directly discuss the impact of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)...
HIV and STI testing among Indigenous women and women who inject drugs
2016
Key take-home messages Rates of HIV and other sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections are high among Indigenous women and women who inject drugs. For women who use drugs, centres that...
HIV testing practices
2009
Key take-home messages Practice guidelines from the US, UK, the WHO, Europe and Australia were identified. Relevant primary literature was identified and reviewed in order to provide additional insight about...
Effects of peer sexual health education on college campuses: A systematic review
2018
OBJECTIVE: College peer health education groups have grown in popularity to provide information about health and wellness topics. The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the effectiveness of...
Mental health status of women and families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS
2010
Key take-home messages Evidence-based interventions are needed to support women living with HIV/AIDS to develop effective parenting skills for their children. Due to the disproportionate burden of depression on women...
Hepatitis C reinfection after successful treatment
2016
Key take-home messages HCV reinfection rates vary widely. Reinfection depends on the extent to which an individual engages in high risk activities after having achieved sustained virologic response through treatment....
Sports and social gay networks for HIV prevention
2010
Key take-home messages We were unable to locate any research evidence assessing sport and/or social gay networks as HIV prevention strategies. The studies we did identify assess social networks as...
Organ-specific toxicities due to radiation therapy in cancer patients with or without HIV infection: A systematic review of the literature
2018
Background: To synthesize published literature on the association between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and radiation therapy (RT)-related toxicities. Methods: Two electronic databases, MEDLINE and Embase, were searched to identify...
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...
