Category Archives: Prevention, Engagement and Care Cascade
Fathers and HIV: Considerations for families
2010
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...
Hepatitis C in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: Diagnosis, natural history, meta-analysis of sexual and vertical transmission, and therapeutic issues
2000
Hepatitis C (HCV) infection occurs in as many as 33% of the patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In view of their improved survival, liver disease will become more...
The determinants of screening uptake and interventions for increasing uptake: A systematic review
2000
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Social marketing campaigns that promote condom use among MSM: A literature review
2014
The turn of the century has seen an increase in reported cases of sexually transmitted infections including the human immunodeficiency virus, particularly in groups of men who have sex with...
Is there a role for primary care clinicians in providing shared care in HIV treatment? A systematic literature review
2012
BACKGROUND: Despite HIV being increasingly considered as a chronic illness, there is as yet no consensus about how primary care should be integrated with specialty care to provide optimal clinical...
HIV/AIDS and mental health research in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review
2011
The relationship between mental illness and HIV/AIDS is complex and bidirectional. A significant amount of research has been performed in high-income countries but less is known about HIV and mental...
Circumcision in men and the prevention of HIV infection: A ‘meta-analysis’ revisited
2000
There is debate on the role of male circumcision in HIV transmission. Most case-control and cohort studies from Africa have shown an association between a lack of circumcision and an...
Male circumcision and risk of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis
2000
OBJECTIVE: To systematically review studies of male circumcision and the risk of HIV-1 infection in men in sub-Saharan Africa, and to summarize the findings in a meta-analysis. DESIGN: A meta-analysis...
Patterns of condom use among men who have sex with men in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis
2012
HIV is rapidly spreading among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. We estimate and compare rates of condom use among MSM in different regions of China through...
Efficacy of interventions in improving adherence to antiretroviral therapy
2005
The aim of this paper is to perform a critical review of the effectiveness of interventions for the purpose of enhancing adherence to antiretroviral therapy. The overall evaluation indicates that...
Nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis for human immunodeficiency virus in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review
2011
Both HIV and sexual assault remain major public health problems in Sub-Saharan Africa. This review examines the state of the science regarding provision of non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis following sexual assault...
Antiretroviral therapy uptake, attrition, adherence and outcomes among HIV-infected female sex workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
2014
PURPOSE: We aimed to characterize the antiretroviral therapy (ART) cascade among female sex workers (FSWs) globally. METHODS: We systematically searched PubMed, Embase and MEDLINE in March 2014 to identify studies...
