Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in preventing HIV risk behaviour in injecting drug users
1998
OBJECTIVE: To consider evidence for the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in reducing the risk of infection with HIV of injecting drug users. METHOD: We reviewed 19 published studies of the...
A review of the effectiveness and appropriateness of peer-delivered health promotion interventions for young people
1999
This report reviews what is known about peer-delivered health promotion for young people. It is the fourth in a new EPI-Centre series of health promotion effectiveness reviews. Using peers to...
HIV prevention interventions in adolescent girls: What is the state of the science?
2004
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Adolescent girls now represent one of the fastest growing groups of persons infected with HIV. A systematic review was undertaken to identify and critique the most scientifically...
Understanding the role of family on sexual-risk decisions of young women: A systematic review
2012
Girls and young women are at high risk of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Many research studies suggest that the family plays an important role in young women’s sexual-risk...
Behavioral interventions for improving condom use for dual protection
2013
BACKGROUND: Unprotected sex is a major risk factor for disease, disability, and mortality in many areas of the world due to the prevalence and incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STI)...
A role for depression in sexual risk reduction for women? A meta-analysis of HIV prevention trials with depression outcomes
2012
Rates of HIV/AIDS and depression in women are significant public health concerns. The current meta-analysis tested the hypothesis that depression levels moderate change in sexual risk behavior in women participating...
HIV and rehabilitation: Development of a conceptual framework for curriculum planning
2008
The overall purpose of this paper is to present the development of a conceptual framework of existing HIV curricula and educational resources on to inform future curriculum planning for the...
Prevention of sexually transmitted HIV infection: A meta-analytic review of the behavioral outcome literature
1996
Social learning theory-based models have recently provided the foundation for a series of twelve controlled human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk reduction intervention studies that have examined sexual behavior change. These...
Rigorous trials of sexual behaviour interventions in STD/HIV prevention: what can we learn from them?
2000
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Partner notification
2009
INTRODUCTION: Many people diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease (STD) do not have symptoms, and may not inform their past or current sexual partners of their diagnosis or routinely use...
An integrative review of comprehensive sex education for adolescent girls in Kenya
2011
Purpose: The purposes of this article are to identify and review comprehensive sex education programs (CSEPs) available to adolescent females in Kenya, East Africa, to discuss barriers to implementing CSEPs...
HIV/STI prevention interventions targeting FSWs in China: A systematic literature review
2011
A rapid increase in heterosexual transmission of HIV and a high prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in China signals potential outbreaks of generalized epidemics. A large proportion of heterosexual...
