Category Archives: Education/media campaigns
Behavioral interventions to reduce HIV risk behavior for MSM and transwomen in Southeast Asia: A systematic review
This systematic review aims to gain insights from existing literature from Southeast Asian countries to improve future HIV prevention programs for men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender...
Information and communication technologies for adherence to antiretroviral treatment in adults with HIV/AIDS
INTRODUCTION: Information and communication technologies support interventions directed at the prevention of HIV transmission and patient monitoring by promoting improved accessibility and quality of care. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy...
The effectiveness of HIV/AIDS school-based sexual health education programmes in Nigeria: A systematic review
HIV/AIDS is one of the most important public health challenges facing Nigeria today. Recent evidence has revealed that the adolescent population make up a large proportion of the 3.7% reported...
A systematic review of health literacy interventions for people living with HIV
Health literacy significantly impacts health-related outcomes among people living with HIV. Our aim was to systematically review current literature on health literacy interventions for people living with HIV. The authors...
Health-information needs of HIV-positive adults in Latin America and the Caribbean: An integrative review of the literature
An assessment of information needs is essential for care planning for patients living with chronic diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The extent to which these assessments have been...
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,...
Community health workers and mobile technology: A systematic review of the literature
INTRODUCTION: In low-resource settings, community health workers are frontline providers who shoulder the health service delivery burden. Increasingly, mobile technologies are developed, tested, and deployed with community health workers to...
Effectiveness of ART and condom use for prevention of sexual HIV transmission in serodiscordant couples: A systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Consistent and correct condom use and suppressive antiretroviral therapy for the infected partner are two of the primary strategies recommended for prevention of heterosexual HIV transmission in serodiscordant couples...
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...