Category Archives: Prevention, Engagement and Care Cascade
Community health workers and mobile technology: A systematic review of the literature
INTRODUCTION: In low-resource settings, community health workers are frontline providers who shoulder the health service delivery burden. Increasingly, mobile technologies are developed, tested, and deployed with community health workers to...
Does HIV infection have an impact upon dental implant osseointegration? A systematic review
Objective: A systematic review is made to determine whether human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has an impact upon dental implant osseointegration. Study Design: A PubMed (MEDLINE) literature search was made...
The enabling effect of food assistance in improving adherence and/or treatment completion for antiretroviral therapy and tuberculosis treatment: A literature review
Socioeconomic costs of HIV and TB and the difficulty of maintaining optimal treatment are well documented. Social protection measures such as food assistance may be required to offset some of...
Choice of antiretroviral drugs for postexposure prophylaxis for adults and adolescents: A systematic review
BACKGROUND: The choice of preferred regimens for human immunodeficiency virus postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) has evolved over the last 2 decades as more data have become available regarding the safety and...
Interventions that retain African Americans in HIV/AIDS treatment: Implications for social work practice and research
Social workers play an important role in recognizing and addressing barriers to retention in HIV care. Although there is a large body of literature and research supporting interventions that promote...
Is the atherosclerotic process accentuated under conditions of HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy, and protease inhibitor exposure? Meta-analysis of the markers of arterial structure and function
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the apparent association of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, antiretroviral therapy (ART), and protease inhibitor (PI) exposure with the functional and structural markers of vasculature. METHODS: A...
Oral manifestations of HIV/AIDS in Asia: Systematic review and future research guidelines
OBJECTIVES: The authors have conducted a systematic review of oral manifestations of HIV from studies conducted in Asia to establish the characteristics and prevalence of individual oral manifestations in Asia,...
Basis of selection of first and second line highly active antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS on genetic barrier to resistance: A literature review
Long-term management of HIV/AIDS is at risk of increasing drug resistance1. Booster protease inhibitor (PI) and thymidine analogue-containing regimens have a high genetic barrier to resistance. Non-thymidine-analogue triple nucleoside/nucleotide reverse...
Isoniazid prophylactic therapy for the prevention of tuberculosis in HIV infected adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials
BACKGROUND: Infection with Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an important risk factor for Tuberculosis (TB). Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) has improved the prognosis of HIV and reduced the risk of TB...
The impact of specific HIV treatment-related adverse events on adherence to antiretroviral therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Poor adherence to antiretroviral therapies (ARTs) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients increases the risk of incomplete viral suppression, development of viral resistance, progression to acquired immune deficiency syndrome and...
A systematic review of interventions for reducing HIV risk behaviors among people living with HIV in the United States, 1988-2012
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review to examine interventions for reducing HIV risk behaviors among people living with HIV (PLWH) in the United States. METHODS: Systematic searches included electronic databases...
