Category Archives: Sexual risk behaviour
Workplace programmes for HIV and tuberculosis: A systematic review to support development of international guidelines for the health workforce
The health service sector has a vital role to play in delivering human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and tuberculosis (TB) prevention, treatment and care, yet evidence indicates that healthcare workers (HCWs)...
Are we going to close social gaps in HIV? Likely effects of behavioral HIV-prevention interventions on health disparities
Although experimental behavioral interventions to prevent HIV are generally designed to correct undesirable epidemiological trends, it is presently unknown whether the resulting body of behavioral interventions is adequate to correct...
Gender-transformative interventions to reduce HIV risks and violence with heterosexually-active men: A review of the global evidence
Emerging out of increased attention to gender equality within HIV and violence prevention programming has been an intensified focus on masculinities. A new generation of health interventions has attempted to...
Alcohol as a correlate of unprotected sexual behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS: Review and meta-analysis
The present investigation attempted to quantify the relationship between alcohol consumption and unprotected sexual behavior among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). A comprehensive search of the literature was performed to...
Interventions for young people in Australia to reduce HIV and sexually transmissible infections: A systematic review
Background: Like young people in other developed countries, sexually active young Australians can have an increased risk of acquiring sexually transmissible infections (STIs). This paper reviews intervention programs that aim...
Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in preventing HIV risk behaviour in injecting drug users
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...
Heterosexual risk of HIV-1 infection per sexual act: Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies
We did a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies of the risk of HIV-1 transmission per heterosexual contact. 43 publications comprising 25 different study populations were identified. Pooled female-to-male...
Reconsidering community-based health promotion: Promise, performance, and potential
Contemporary public health emphasizes a community-based approach to health promotion and disease prevention. The evidence from the past 20 years indicates, however, that many community-based programs have had only modest...
Psychosocial interventions for the reduction of injection and sexual risk behaviour for preventing HIV in drug users
BACKGROUND: Drug users (including both injection drug users and crack cocaine users), are at high levels of risk for contracting HIV. Therefore it is important to reduce the injection and/or...
Moderators of the relationship between internalized homophobia and risky sexual behavior in men who have sex with men: A meta-analysis
Research on internalized homophobia (IH) has consistently linked it to both mental and physical health outcomes, while research on its relationships with other variables has been inconsistent. Some research and...
Efficacy of HIV/STI behavioral interventions for heterosexual African American men in the United States: A meta-analysis
This meta-analysis estimates the overall efficacy of HIV prevention interventions to reduce HIV sexual risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among heterosexual African American men. A comprehensive search of...
