Category Archives: Education/media campaigns

Optimizing ART adherence: Update for HIV treatment and prevention

2014

Optimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is central to achieving viral suppression and positive health outcomes in HIV-infected individuals. Virally suppressed individuals can also reduce the risk of HIV transmission...

Sexual risk reduction interventions for HIV prevention among South African youth: A meta-analytic review

2013

OBJECTIVES: To examine the efficacy of sexual risk reduction interventions among South African youth. METHODS: Electronic databases were searched to identify studies published between 2007 and early 2013. Studies were...

Social media and HIV: A systematic review of uses of social media in HIV communication

2015

BACKGROUND: Social media, including mobile technologies and social networking sites, are being used increasingly as part of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and treatment efforts. As an important avenue for...

A systematic review of microfinance-based interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention

2014

The aim of this study is to describe the scope of microfinance-based interventions for HIV/AIDS prevention. A systematic review was carried out of literature published between 1986 and 2012 from...

Are couple-based interventions more effective than interventions delivered to individuals in promoting HIV protective behaviors? A meta-analysis

2015

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

2013

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...

Behavioral HIV prevention interventions among latinas in the US: A systematic review of the evidence

2015

Compared to White women, Latinas are 4 times more likely to contract HIV. In an effort to determine the overall state of the science meant to address this disparity, we...

Effectiveness of ART and condom use for prevention of sexual HIV transmission in serodiscordant couples: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2014

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

2014

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...

Systematic review of couple-based HIV intervention and prevention studies: Advantages, gaps, and future directions

2014

We conducted a systematic review of couple-based HIV biobehavioral (skills-building, VCT, and adherence) and biomedical (ART, circumcision) prevention and intervention studies designed to reduce sexual- and drug-risk behaviors and HIV...

Brief sexuality communication-a behavioural intervention to advance sexually transmitted infection/HIV prevention: A systematic review

2014

BACKGROUND: Throughout the last decade substantial research has been undertaken to develop evidence-based behaviour change interventions for sexual health promotion. Primary care could provide an opportunistic entry for brief sexual...

A systematic review of interventions for reducing HIV risk behaviors among people living with HIV in the United States, 1988-2012

2014

OBJECTIVE: To conduct a systematic review to examine interventions for reducing HIV risk behaviors among people living with HIV (PLWH) in the United States. METHODS: Systematic searches included electronic databases...

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