Category Archives: Education/media campaigns

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to assess how male involvement and commitment from the government can affect the HIV/AIDS prevention programs. METHOD: A literature review was conducted by...

OBJECTIVES: This systematic review aims to qualitatively synthesise existing evidence on the efficacy of HIV interventions in African fishing communities. METHODS: Five databases (NCBI PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science Core...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Short message system (SMS) communication is widespread in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and may be a viable approach to address challenges with in-person data collection for...

BACKGROUND: Addressing adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) requires an understanding of the socio-cultural and spatial settings within which they live. One setting of particular importance is the...

BACKGROUND: An expanding number of mind-body therapies are being used to reduce the psychological burden of peoples living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, the effects on the immune system...

OBJECTIVE: To identify the best available evidence of intervention effectiveness for adherence to antiretroviral therapy for HIV in adults. METHOD: The methodology proposed by the Cochrane Collaboration was used, with...

While adolescents have received increasing attention in the global HIV response and international strategies and commitments, adolescent mothers and their children remain largely overlooked in research, funding and, programming for...

Inconsistencies between the number of patients, qualified caregivers and lack of adequate services and resources in the healthcare systems for people living with HIV/AIDS have led to the idea of...

BACKGROUND: The disproportionately high prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) is a global concern. Despite the increasing utilization of electronic health (eHealth) technology in the...

INTRODUCTION: Arts-based approaches to health promotion have been used widely across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), particularly in public health responses to HIV/AIDS. Such approaches draw on deep-rooted historical traditions of indigenous...

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) ages (15-24 years old) in Southern and Eastern Africa account for nearly 30% of all new HIV infections. We conducted a systematic review of...

While stigma associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among men who have sex with men (MSM) is well recognized, there remains relatively limited intervention data on effective stigma reduction...