This review examines the interactions of financial status and HIV and its implications for women. MEDLINE and Google scholar were searched using the keywords ‘women’, ‘poverty’ and ‘HIV’ in any...
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...
Costs and cost-effectiveness of HIV community services: Quantity and quality of studies published 1986–2011
2013
Community services comprise an important part of a country’s HIV response. English language cost and cost-effectiveness studies of HIV community services published between 1986 and 2011 were reviewed but only...
Social marketing interventions to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women
2011
BACKGROUND: Social marketing interventions have been shown to both promote and change many health-related behaviours and issues. As the HIV epidemic continues to disproportionately affect MSM and transgender women around...
HIV testing and counselling for migrant populations living in high-income countries: A systematic review
2013
BACKGROUND: The barriers to HIV testing and counselling that migrants encounter can jeopardize proactive HIV testing that relies on the fact that HIV testing must be linked to care. We...
Chronic Care Model decision support and clinical information systems interventions for people living with HIV: a systematic review
2013
BACKGROUND: The Chronic Care Model is an effective framework for improving chronic disease management. There is scarce literature describing this model for people living with HIV. Decision Support (DS) and...
Patient-derived outcome measures for HIV services in the developed world: A systematic review
2011
This review sought to establish the themes and approaches used in the measurement of patient satisfaction regarded by HIV service users as crucial to improving service quality. It also investigated...
The impact of HIV clinical pharmacists on HIV treatment outcomes: A systematic review
2012
OBJECTIVE: Due to the rapid proliferation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment options, there is a need for health care providers with knowledge of antiretroviral therapy intricacies. In a HIV...
Systematic review of public health branding
2008
Brands build relationships between consumers and products, services, or lifestyles by providing beneficial exchanges and adding value to their objects. Brands can be measured through associations that consumers hold for...
Estimating the resource needs of scaling-up HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review for national policy makers and planners
2006
Considerable effort has been made to estimate the global resource requirements of scaling-up HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) interventions. There are currently several medium- and long-term global estimates available. Comprehensive country...
Spending of HIV resources in Asia and Eastern Europe: Systematic review reveals the need to shift funding allocations towards priority populations
2014
INTRODUCTION: It is increasingly important to prioritize the most cost-effective HIV interventions. We sought to summarize the evidence on which types of interventions provide the best value for money in...
HIV prevention cost-effectiveness: A systematic review
2009
BACKGROUND: After more than 25 years, public health programs have not been able to sufficiently reduce the number of new HIV infections. Over 7,000 people become infected with HIV every...
