Category Archives: Prevention, Engagement and Care Cascade
Integration of HIV/AIDS services with maternal, neonatal and child health, nutrition, and family planning services
Background: The integration of HIV/AIDS and maternal, neonatal, child health and nutrition services (MNCHN), including family planning (FP) is recognized as a key strategy to reduce maternal and child mortality...
The efficacy of behavioral interventions in reducing HIV risk behaviors and incident sexually transmitted diseases in heterosexual African Americans
Objective:: To conduct a meta-analytic review of HIV interventions for heterosexual African Americans to determine the overall efficacy in reducing HIV-risk sex behaviors and incident sexually transmitted diseases and identify...
Directly observed antiretroviral therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials
BACKGROUND: Directly observed therapy has been recommended to improve adherence for patients with HIV infection who are on highly active antiretroviral therapy, but the benefit and cost-effectiveness of this approach...
Use of diet, nutritional supplements and exercise in HIV-infected patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapies: A systematic review
BACKGROUND: The use of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has improved the prognosis of HIV infection, but it has also been linked to a spectrum of body composition changes and metabolic...
Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs: A systematic review
Background: Injecting drug use is an increasingly important cause of HIV transmission in most countries worldwide. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of injecting drug use among individuals aged...
Multicentric Castleman’s disease in HIV infection: A systematic review of the literature
The objective of this study is to systematically review the epidemiology and the clinical and virologic aspects of multicentric Castleman’s disease in HIV-positive patients and to evaluate treatment strategies and...
A meta-analysis of six placebo-controlled trials of thiazolidinedione therapy for HIV lipoatrophy
Objective: To determine the impact of thiazolidinediones (TZD) on changes in limb fat mass in HIV-infected individuals, particularly in those not receiving a thymidine analogue.Methods: Individual patient data from placebo-controlled,...
Effect of hormonal contraceptive methods on HIV disease progression: A systematic review
OBJECTIVE: Systematically assess from the literature whether women living with HIV who use hormonal contraception are at increased risk of HIV-disease progression compared with those who do not use hormonal...
Burden of HIV-related CMV retinitis in resource-limited settings: A systematic review
Background. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a late stage opportunistic infection in people living with HIV/AIDS. Lack of ophthalmological diagnostic skills or convenient CMV treatment and increasing access to antiretroviral therapy, have...
