Category Archives: Delivery arrangements

This review identifies which elements of home-based comprehensive sexual health care (home-based CSH) impacted which key populations, under which circumstances. A realist review of studies focused on home-based CSH with...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has historically been viewed as a terminal condition affecting younger populations, however, with advancements in antiretroviral therapy (ART) and better healthcare provisions, people with HIV are...

BACKGROUND: Social, cultural, and structural determinants of health for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers can contribute towards poorer sexual health outcomes. People from migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker backgrounds usually...

BACKGROUND: Mobile health (mHealth) technologies are increasingly used in contact tracing and case finding, enhancing and replacing traditional methods for managing infectious diseases such as Ebola, tuberculosis, COVID-19, and HIV....

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The central tenet of syndemics theory is that disease interactions are driven by social factors, and that these factors have to be understood in order to reduce...

INTRODUCTION: Disease intervention specialists (DIS) are critical for delivering partner services programs that provide partner notification, counseling, referral, and other services for HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and other infections....

Caregiver-assisted testing using HIV self-test (CG-HIVST) kits has been proposed to enhance paediatric HIV case finding and contribute toward ending paediatric HIV/AIDS by 2030. We conducted a systematic review to...

Purpose: Young people living with HIV (YPLWH) face the burden of navigating the unique physical, psychological, and social challenges of adolescence while coping with a stigmatized infectious disease that requires lifelong...

This systematic review synthesized published literature (2000–2023) to identify HIV interventions specifically designed for transgender persons in the United States (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42021256460). The review also summarized strategies for...

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted an unprecedented surge in virtual services, necessitating a rapid shift to digital healthcare approaches. This review focuses on evaluating the evidence of virtual care (VC)...

INTRODUCTION: Social network-based testing approaches (SNAs) encourage individuals (“test promoters”) to motivate sexual partners and/or those in their social networks to test for HIV. We conducted a systematic review to...

Adolescent girls and young women are key, and priority populations impacted by a higher risk of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus. In 2015, pre-exposure prophylaxis was introduced as a biomedical human...