Category Archives: Health Systems

Objective: To understand the impact of clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) on improving HIV testing and diagnosis. Design: An original global systematic review (PROSPERO Number: CRD42020175576) of peer-reviewed articles reporting on electronic...

BACKGROUND: Treatment guidelines are not well established in AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma (KS). OBJECTIVE: We aim to review the evidence on efficacy of treatments for AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma. METHODS: We searched...

Background and study aims: The objective of this review is to evaluate the incidence of operative treatment, outcomes, and complications of surgery for degenerative spine disease (DSD) on human immunodeficiency virus...

Peer education and peer counselling for health and wellbeing have been recognized as complementary approaches to professional intervention for over 50 years, but it is relatively recently that research into...

INTRODUCTION: To our knowledge, there are no systematic review study with meta- analysis that investigated the influence of training variables on specific outcomes (CD4 cell counts) addressed aerobic training for...

Introduction During the COVID-19 pandemic, people living with HIV (PLWH) were considered to be at risk of worse COVID-19 outcomes once infected. However, the existing evidence is inconsistent. This systematic...

Background. Across settings, individuals from populations that are multiply stigmatized are at increased risk of HIV and experience worse HIV treatment outcomes. As evidence expands on how intersecting stigmatized identities and...

This scoping review assessed how the term ‘self-management’ (SM) is used in peer-reviewed literature describing HIV populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). This review followed the Preferred Reporting Items...

Young Black males (YBM) ages 18 to 24 years are more at risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and have a substantially greater need for sexual reproductive health (SRH)...

BACKGROUND: The novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV-2) threatens to disrupt global progress towards HIV epidemic control. Opportunities exist to leverage ongoing...

Key take-home messages Patient Advisory Councils and Community Advisory Councils promote patient engagement and the development of strategies and interventions to benefit the delivery of patient care; these collaborative councils...

Interventions that provide HIV and/or HCV testing have been offered in a variety of settings. These include community settings such as outpatient drug treatment clinics, mobile clinics, harm reduction services...