Category Archives: Other

Reviews that are lab-based (e.g. genes, pharmaceuticals) or on unique groups of people (e.g. fishermen, nurses)

Interventions to modify sexual risk behaviours for preventing HIV in homeless youth

2011

BACKGROUND: Homeless youth are at high risk for HIV infection as a consequence of risky sexual behaviour. Interventions for homeless youth are challenging. Assessment of the effectiveness of interventions to...

Effectiveness of protease inhibitor monotherapy versus combination antiretroviral maintenance therapy: A meta-analysis

2011

BACKGROUND: The unparalleled success of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is based on the combination of three drugs from two classes. There is insufficient evidence whether simplification to ritonavir boosted protease...

Is the virulence of HIV changing? A meta-analysis of trends in prognostic markers of HIV disease progression and transmission

2012

OBJECTIVE: The potential for changing HIV-1 virulence has significant implications for the AIDS epidemic, including changing HIV transmission rates, rapidity of disease progression, and timing of ART. Published data to...

Circulating endothelial progenitor cells in HIV infection: A systematic review

2013

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals have a cardiovascular disease risk that is almost thrice than that of their HIV-uninfected counterparts. Given the critical role of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in...

Diagnostic accuracy of the WHO clinical staging system for defining eligibility for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

2014

Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that HIV-positive adults with CD4 count ≤500 cells/mm(3) initiate antiretroviral therapy (ART). In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, CD4 count is not widely available...

Examining the relationship between urogenital schistosomiasis and HIV infection

2011

BACKGROUND: Urogenital schistosomiasis, caused by infection with Schistosoma haematobium, is widespread and causes substantial morbidity on the African continent. The infection has been suggested as an unrecognized risk factor for...

Effects of physical tracing on estimates of loss to follow-up, mortality and retention in low aetroviral therapnd middle income country antiry programs: A systematic review

2013

BACKGROUND: A large proportion of patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) have unknown treatment outcomes and are classified as lost to follow-up (LTFU). Physical...

Adherence to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis in victims of sexual assault: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2012

OBJECTIVE: To assess adherence to post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for the prevention of HIV infection in victims of sexual assault. METHODS: The authors carried out a systematic review, random effects meta-analysis...

A meta-analysis and systematic review of HIV risk behavior among fishermen

2014

With HIV prevalence levels up to 30%, fishermen as a group have a comparable prevalence to at-risk populations such as female sex workers (FSWs), truck drivers, military personnel, and prisoners....

Prevalence of HIV and syphilis infections among long-distance truck drivers in China: A data synthesis and meta-analysis

2013

By 2009, 46 national sentinel surveillance sites had been established for long-distance truck drivers (LDTDs) in China, but the overall disease burden of HIV and syphilis among LDTDs has remained...

Can computer-mediated interventions change theoretical mediators of safer sex? A meta-analysis

2010

The purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis of computer-mediated interventions (CMIs) aimed at changing theoretical mediators of safer sex. Meta-analytic aggregation of effect sizes from k =...

A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of alternative HIV counseling and testing methods to increase knowledge of HIV status

2006

BACKGROUND: Alternatives to conventional HIV counseling and testing (HIV-CT) have been used to improve receipt of HIV test results. OBJECTIVES: To determine the effectiveness of alternative HIV-CT methods on the...

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