Category Archives: Prevention
Are couple-based interventions more effective than interventions delivered to individuals in promoting HIV protective behaviors? A meta-analysis
Despite several advantages to bringing couples together to learn how to protect themselves and new-born children from the risk of HIV infection, most interventions are designed for individuals or groups,...
Systemic preexposure prophylaxis for HIV: Translating clinical data to clinical practice
OBJECTIVE: To assess the real-world implications of oral tenofovir-emtricitabine (TDF-FTC) for HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in clinical practice and highlight important considerations for its implementation. DATA SOURCES: A search of...
Strategies for the prevention of mother to child transmission in Western countries: An update
BACKGROUND: During the last decades remarkable scientific advances have been made toward the prevention of HIV mother-to-child transmission, in particular in developed nations. The aim of this review was to...
Does this adult patient have early HIV infection?: The Rational Clinical Examination systematic review
IMPORTANCE: Timely identification of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in adults can contribute to reduced mortality and likelihood of further HIV transmission. During the first 6 months after infection, known...
Effects of integrated interventions on transmission risk and care continuum outcomes in persons living with HIV: Meta-analysis, 1996-2014
BACKGROUND: Reducing HIV infection and improving outcomes along the continuum of HIV care are high priorities of the US National HIV/AIDS strategy. Interventions that target multiple problem behaviors simultaneously in...
Interventions to promote adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Africa: A network meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is necessary for the improvement of the health of patients and for public health. We sought to determine the comparative effectiveness of different interventions...
The prevalence of HIV drug resistance among treatment-failure individuals and treatment-naive individuals in China: A meta-analysis
OBJECTIVE: To understand drug resistance prevalence among treatment-failure and treatment-naive HIV-positive individuals in China. METHODS: We searched five electronic databases (Wanfang, CNKI, CQVIP, SinoMed, and Pubmed) for studies of HIV...
State of the evidence: Intimate partner violence and HIV/STI risk among adolescents
This paper provides a critical narrative review of the scientific literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) and risky sexual behavior as well as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents, aged...
The association between HIV/AIDS-related knowledge and perception of risk for infection: A systematic review
This systematic review tries to elucidate the association between what people know about HIV/AIDS and how they perceive their risk of infection. The initial search for articles yielded 1,595 abstracts,...
