Category Archives: General HIV- population

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

The socio-ecological model approach to understanding barriers and facilitators to the accessing of health services by sex workers: A systematic review

2017

Inequities in accessing health care persist among sex workers. The purpose of the review is to understand the health-seeking behaviours of sex workers and their access to health care services...

Reliability of HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing compared with testing by health-care workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2018

BACKGROUND: The ability of individuals to use HIV self-tests correctly is debated. To inform the 2016 WHO recommendation on HIV self-testing, we assessed the reliability and performance of HIV rapid...

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in patients treated with fumaric acid esters: A review of 19 cases

2017

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare and potentially fatal condition caused by a brain infection with JC polyomavirus (JCV). PML develops almost exclusively in immunocompromised patients and has recently...

A systematic review of non-traumatic spinal cord injuries in Sub-Saharan Africa and a proposed diagnostic algorithm for resource-limited settings

2017

Background: Non-traumatic myelopathy is common in Africa and there are geographic differences in etiology. Clinical management is challenging due to the broad differential diagnosis and the lack of diagnostics. The...

Blood donor deferral for men who have sex with men: Still room to move

2017

BACKGROUND: Like a number of other countries, Australia mandates that a man who has had sex with men is deferred from donation until 12 months has elapsed since the sexual...

Structural interventions in HIV prevention: A taxonomy and descriptive systematic review

2018

One of the four national HIV prevention goals is to incorporate combinations of effective, evidence-based approaches to prevent HIV infection. In fields of public health, techniques that alter environment and...

Neurodevelopment in young children born to HIV-infected mothers: A meta-analysis

2018

CONTEXT: HIV-infected (HIV+) children have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes compared with HIV-uninfected children. However, little is known regarding the differences in neurodevelopment between young HIV+ children, HIV-exposed but uninfected (HEU) children,...

Estimating chronic hepatitis C prognosis using transient elastography-based liver stiffness: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2017

Chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is a leading cause of hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis. The level of fibrosis is traditionally established by histology, and prognosis is estimated using fibrosis progression rates...

Human papillomavirus types from infection to cancer in the anus, according to sex and HIV status: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2018

BACKGROUND: Data on carcinogenicity of human papillomavirus (HPV) types in the anus are needed to inform anal cancer prevention through vaccination and screening. This is particularly the case for people...

A meta-analysis of risk markers for intimate partner violence in same-sex relationships

2017

Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) has largely focused on heterosexual relationships, but, in recent years, researchers have expanded their focus to include same-sex relationships. Using meta-analytic techniques, this study...

Randomized controlled trials of technology-based HIV/STI and drug abuse preventive interventions for African American and Hispanic youth: Systematic review

2017

BACKGROUND: HIV/sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and drug abuse remain significant public health concerns in the United States, and African American and Hispanic youth are disproportionately affected. Although technology-based interventions are...

Diagnostic accuracy of tests to detect hepatitis B surface antigen: A systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis

2017

BACKGROUND: Chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection is characterised by the persistence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). Expanding HBV diagnosis and treatment programmes into low resource settings will require...

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