Category Archives: Heterosexual men

PURPOSE: Despite established HIV prevention strategies and broadly available diagnostic strategies in developed western countries, rates of HIV new infections remain high. Alternative strategies for HIV prevention, particularly among men...

OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to review the global disparities of transmitted HIV drug resistance (TDR) in antiretroviral-naive MSM, people who inject drugs (PWID) and heterosexual populations in both high-income and...

OBJECTIVE: This systematic review summarizes evidence on the effectiveness of strategies to increase men’s HIV-testing in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: Medline, EmBase, Africa-Wide Information and Global Health were searched. Cluster and...

BACKGROUND: Men who engage in transactional sex, the exchange of sex for money, goods, or other items of value, are thought to be at increased risk of HIV, but there...

BACKGROUND: Cost-effectiveness studies inform resource allocation, strategy, and policy development. However, due to their complexity, dependence on assumptions made, and inherent uncertainty, synthesising, and generalising the results can be difficult....

OBJECTIVE: To review the current literature on HIV associated anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN). METHODS: A comprehensive Medline/Pubmed search was performed for the years 1980-2001 (January) for articles pertaining to HIV...

Different behavioral interventions have found to be efficacious in reducing high-risk sexual activity. Interventions have been evaluated in both original research and meta-analytic reviews. Most of the studies have shown...

We reviewed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that examined the effects of psychological interventions on HIV disease markers including neuroendocrine hormone regulation and immune status. Utilizing both PubMed and PsycINFO, we...

Our objective was to review systematically studies of interventions to prevent transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in heterosexual men. Of 1157 studies identified through...

Background: There is conclusive evidence from observational data and three randomized controlled trials that circumcised men have a significantly lower risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)....

Whether the observed association between male circumcision and HIV infection is causal or not has not been verified. We did a meta-analysis of published data and applied Hill’s criteria for...

BACKGROUND: Fathers are intricately bound up in all aspects of family life. This review examines fathers in the presence of HIV: from desire for a child, through conception issues, to...