Category Archives: Health Systems

Health determinants in men of the Bear subculture compared with the MSM population. Literature review

2022

A number of health problems are more common in the population of men who have sex with men (MSM) as compared with the general population. At the same time, research...

Peer education interventions for HIV prevention and sexual health with young people in Mekong Region countries: A scoping review and conceptual framework

2022

WHO-recommended rights-based approaches to sexual health emphasise participatory and youth-centred processes. Among these, peer education (PE) interventions are commonly used to promote HIV prevention and sexual health for young people,...

The impact of COVID-19 on disruptions of HIV-related services: A rapid review

2022

Background: People living with HIV (PLHIV) and those at risk of HIV are marginalized worldwide and need to reach services regularly. The COVID-19 pandemic can disrupt the HIV care continuum....

Review of antiretroviral therapy coverage in 10 highest burden HIV countries in Africa: 2015–2020

2023

Africa is responsible for two-thirds of the global total of new HIV infections. South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, and Ethiopia were responsible for 80% of...

Antiretroviral drugs for treatment and prevention of HIV infection in adults: 2022 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society-USA Panel

2023

IMPORTANCE: Recent advances in treatment and prevention of HIV warrant updated recommendations to guide optimal practice. OBJECTIVE: Based on a critical evaluation of new data, to provide clinicians with recommendations...

Are intersectoral costs considered in economic evaluations of interventions relating to sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? A systematic review

2022

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) not only have an impact on the health sector but also the private resources of those affected, their families and other sectors of society (i.e....

Barriers and facilitators to the implementation and scale up of differentiated service delivery models for HIV treatment in Africa: A scoping review

2022

BACKGROUND: In the face of health-system constraints, local policymakers and decision-makers face difficult choices about how to implement, expand and institutionalize antiretroviral therapy (ART) services. This scoping review aimed to...

The current challenges affecting the quality of care of HIV/AIDS in the Middle East: Perspectives from local experts and future directions

2022

OBJECTIVE: This report aimed to reflect the experts’ views regarding the challenges affecting the quality of care for people living with HIV in the Middle East. Besides, we integrated experts’...

Transition interventions for adolescents on antiretroviral therapy on transfer from pediatric to adult healthcare: A systematic review

2022

Globally, adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) experience poor health outcomes such as low retention in care, ART non-adherence and viral non-suppression. These outcomes coincide with the period during and after...

Diagnostic performance of the HCV core Antigen test to identify hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2023

The standard algorithm for diagnosing hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has two steps, an HCV antibody test for screening and a nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) for confirmation. However, the...

Barriers and facilitators to primary care engagement for people who inject drugs: A systematic review

2022

INTRODUCTION: People who inject drugs (PWID) have a greater burden of multimorbid chronic diseases than the general population. However, little attention has been paid to the engagement in primary care...

An overview of programmatic indicators to monitor the roll-out of HIV preexposure prophylaxis

2023

Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is increasingly implemented in national HIV prevention programmes through routine care. Monitoring will be vital to understand whether programmes succeed in engaging people into using PrEP appropriately,...

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