Category Archives: Prevention
Interactive digital interventions for prevention of sexually transmitted HIV: Systematic review and meta-analyses
BACKGROUND: Digital technology offers good opportunities for HIV prevention. This systematic review assesses the effectiveness of interactive digital interventions (IDIs) for prevention of sexually transmitted HIV. METHODS: We conducted a...
Rapid evidence review of harm reduction interventions and messaging for people who inject drugs during pandemic events: Implications for the ongoing COVID-19 response
BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs are at increased health risk in a pandemic due to their greater susceptibility to severe disease and as a consequence of the restrictions put in...
Technology-Based Interventions to Increase Point-of-Care HIV Testing and Linkage to Care Among Youth in the US: A Systematic Review
HIV testing rates remain low among youth ages 13-24 in the US, with only 55% of HIV-positive youth aware of their serostatus. We conducted a systematic review to assess the...
The effect of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics on cd4 counts in HIV-infected patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Probiotics as a potential adjuvant therapy may improve the restoration of the intestinal CD4(+) T-cell population in HIV-infected patients, whereas findings from clinical trials are inconsistent. This systematic review...
The HIV prevalence in older men who have sex with men in Western & Central Europe and North America-A meta-analysis
The age of patients living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is increasing and the greatest proportion of aged HIV patients occurred in Western and Central Europe and North America (WCENA)....
Eliciting Preferences for HIV Prevention Technologies: A Systematic Review
BACKGROUND: Many human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention technologies (pre-exposure prophylaxis, microbicides, vaccines) are available or in development. Preference elicitation methods provide insight into client preferences that may be used to...
Barriers preventing access by men who have sex with men to HIV-related health services in Southeast Asia: A scoping review
The objective of this scoping review was to identify and describe barriers experienced by men who have sex with men (MSM) when accessing HIV-related health care in Southeast Asia. A...
Approaches to transitioning women into and out of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services for continued ART: A systematic review
Introduction: Women living with HIV are required to transition into the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services when they become pregnant and back to ART services after delivery....
Prevalence of pretreatment HIV drug resistance in key populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Introduction: WHO’s 2019 report on HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) documents a high prevalence of pretreatment drug resistance (PDR) among populations initiating first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low- and middle-income countries...
Potential risk factors associated with seropositivity for Toxoplasma gondii among pregnant women and HIV infected individuals in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular and neurotropic apicomplexan protozoan parasite infecting almost all warm-blooded vertebrates including humans. To date in Ethiopia, no systematic study has been investigated on...
Immunogenicity of pneumococcal vaccination in HIV infected individuals: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Background: The objective of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to summarise the literature regarding the immunogenicity of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) and pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccines (PPSV) in adult people...
