Category Archives: Prevention
Characterizing the role of intersecting stigmas and sustained inequities in driving HIV syndemics across low-to-middle-income settings
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In 2020, key populations around the world still have disproportionate risks for HIV acquisition and experiencing HIV-related syndemics. This review presents current data around HIV-related syndemics among...
Evidence and gaps in the literature on HIV/STI prevention interventions targeting migrants in receiving countries: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that migration increases vulnerability to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). However, there is limited knowledge about what has been done or needs...
Adolescents and young adults with early acquired HIV infection in the United States: Unique challenges in treatment and secondary prevention
INTRODUCTION: Worldwide, children who acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at an early age, either perinatally or through blood transfusion, are reaching adolescence and adulthood due to successful antiretroviral treatment (ART)....
Parent-adolescent sex communication with sexual and gender minority youth: An integrated review
INTRODUCTION: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth experience adverse sexual health outcomes at higher rates than their heterosexual and cisgender peers. Although parent-adolescent sex communication (PASC) is associated with improved...
Recommendations for increasing physician provision of pre-exposure prophylaxis: Implications for medical student training
There is growing evidence that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) prevents HIV acquisition. However, in the United States, approximately only 4% of people who could benefit from PrEP are currently receiving it,...
A review of the state of HIV nursing science with sexual orientation, gender identity/expression peoples
Throughout the HIV pandemic, nurses have contributed to or led approaches to understanding the effects of HIV disease at individual and societal levels. Nurses have advocated for socially just care...
Improving retention in antenatal and postnatal care: A systematic review of evidence to inform strategies for adolescents and young women living with HIV
INTRODUCTION: Young pregnant and postpartum women living with HIV (WLHIV) are at high risk of poor outcomes in prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. The aim of this systematic review was...
Law, criminalisation and HIV in the world: Have countries that criminalise achieved more or less successful pandemic response?
How do choices in criminal law and rights protections affect disease-fighting efforts? This long-standing question facing governments around the world is acute in the context of pandemics like HIV and...
Dual contraceptive use and factor associated with people living with HIV/AIDS: A systematic review and meta-analysis
INTRODUCTION: A dual contraceptive method is the usage of any modern contraceptive method with male or female condoms which could lower sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy. Ethiopian standard utilization...
