Category Archives: Prevention, Engagement and Care Cascade
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...
Coordination and delivery of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support by nurse practitioners
2010
Key take-home messages • Medical care, including primary care, delivered by nurse practitionersis often equivalent to the care administered by physicians. Caredelivered by nurse practitioners generally rates higher on measures...
Adherence to methadone maintenance treatment and antiretroviral therapy
2013
Key take-home messages HIV-positive intravenous drug users (IDUs) are at greater risk of non-adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) compared to the general HIV population. Psychological problems, active drug...
Mobile apps and sexual risk behaviours among men who have sex with men
2016
Key take-home messages Since the 1990s, gay and bisexual men who have sex with men have been using information and communication technologies, specifically the internet and mobile smartphone networking applications...
Nutrition and HIV
2018
Key take-home messages Nutrition is an important component of care for people living with HIV. Nutritional needs for people living with HIV can vary; therefore, dietary recommendations should be individualized...
Women, incarceration and HIV: A systematic review of HIV treatment access, continuity of care and health outcomes across incarceration trajectories
2018
OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the literature on gendered implications of incarceration for HIV outcomes and engagement in care for women living with HIV (WLWH). DESIGN: We systematically searched 7 bibliographic...
Sensitivity and specificity of WHO’s recommended four-symptom screening rule for tuberculosis in people living with HIV: A systematic review and meta-analysis
2018
BACKGROUND: Since 2011, WHO recommends a four-symptom screening rule to exclude active tuberculosis in people living with HIV before starting tuberculosis preventive treatment (ie, absence of current cough, weight loss,...
Radio-based interventions for HIV prevention
2010
Key take-home messages Radio spots, when employed as part of larger mass media campaigns, appear moderately effective for reaching target populations with HIV related messages. Across studies approximately one third...
HIV services in rural and remote communities
2013
Key take-home messages People with or at risk of HIV who live in rural communities face complex challenges accessing services, including stigma, lack of services, transportation issues and some population-specific...
The role of nurse practitioners in HIV care
2016
Key take-home messages Nurses are playing an increasing important role as people diagnosed with HIV live longer. HIV care provided by nurse practitioners is equal to or better than care...
Considerations for the clinical management of HIV elite controllers
2018
Key take-home messages Fewer than one percent of people living with HIV are “elite controllers” (i.e. people who can spontaneously control HIV viral load without antiretroviral therapy). The ability of...
Virologic failure and HIV drug resistance on simplified, dolutegravir-based maintenance therapy: Systematic review and meta-analysis
2018
Background: Dolutegravir-containing maintenance therapy is a promising simplification strategy for virologically suppressed HIV-infected individuals. However, most of the available data to inform this strategy come from small, uncontrolled studies. We...
