Reconsidering community-based health promotion: Promise, performance, and potential
2003
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
2010
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...
Computer technology-based interventions in HIV prevention: State of the evidence and future directions for research
2011
Computer technology-based interventions (CBIs) represent a promising area for HIV prevention behavioral intervention research. Such programs are a compelling prevention option given their potential for broad reach, customized content, and...
Use of the Internet for the surveillance and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases
2012
The Internet is a relatively new tool in the surveillance and prevention of sexually transmitted infections, and this review examines its global use in this regard. Much use has been...
HIV intervention research for men who have sex with men: A 7-year update
2005
We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to locate, characterize, and summarize effects of behavioral HIV prevention interventions for men who have sex with men (MSM). We found 54 interventions...
Patterns of condom use among men who have sex with men in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis
2012
HIV is rapidly spreading among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China. We estimate and compare rates of condom use among MSM in different regions of China through...
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...
Towards an understanding of sexual risk behavior in people living with HIV: A review of social, psychological, and medical findings
2002
No abstract.
Genital ulcer disease treatment for reducing sexual acquisition of HIV
2012
BACKGROUND: Genital ulcer disease by virtue of disruption of the mucosal surfaces may enhance HIV acquisition. Genital ulcer disease treatment with resolution of the ulcers may therefore contribute in reducing...
Scope and effectiveness of mobile phone messaging for HIV/AIDS care: A systematic review
2012
The objective of this mixed method systematic review was to assess the scope, effectiveness, acceptability and feasibility of the use of mobile phone messaging for HIV infection prevention, treatment and...
Epidemiology of HIV infection in the Middle East and North Africa
2010
OBJECTIVE: The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region continues to be perceived as a region with very limited HIV epidemiological data, raising many controversies about the status of the...
Behavioral interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV infection among sex workers and their clients in high-income countries
2011
BACKGROUND: Interventions to change behaviour among sex workers and their clients have been identified as a strategy to reduce HIV transmission. However, there has been no systematic review that has...
