COMMENTS

  1. A Review of Recent HIV Prevention Interventions and Future

    This review of current HIV prevention interventions provides a substantial contribution to the literature by synthesizing literature on four key areas of HIV prevention science. Nursing focuses on holistic care, assessing, diagnosing, and treating all areas that influence individual and population health.

  2. HIV infection

    HIV infection also contributes to cardiovascular disease, bone disease, renal and hepatic dysfunction and several other common morbidities. ... Evidence from a comprehensive epidemiological review ...

  3. A literature review of reporting standards of HIV... : AIDS

    In a different review, Blower et al. show that different models that assess the impact of antiretroviral and HIV vaccines have led to similar results but emphasize the need to contrast findings with empirical data. A review by Hellinger provides a critical assessment on the methods used to estimate healthcare costs in models of HIV progression ...

  4. Systematic Reviews

    The systematic review approach is an evidence-based way to synthesize the literature and expand our knowledge of factors related to HIV transmission and prevention. The team uses systematic review techniques to synthesize data descriptively or through quantitative methods, such as meta-analysis, using statistical techniques.

  5. Prevention, treatment and cure of HIV infection

    In this Review, Landovitz, Scott and Deeks explore the current state of the art for HIV prevention and treatment, including unmet needs and emerging tools. They describe how researchers are ...

  6. Effects of Hiv/Aids on Children'S Educational Attainment: a Systematic

    These studies have examined different countries, datasets, and educational outcomes. This systematic literature review provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of peer-reviewed papers published in English by focusing on the main mechanisms that influence the effects of HIV/AIDS on educational outcomes.

  7. Preferences for pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV: A systematic review

    Literature review, in-depth discussions with multiple stakeholders, including public health researchers, PrEP community activists, and MSM ... Heterogeneity in individual preferences for HIV testing: a systematic literature review of discrete choice experiments. EClinicalMedicine. 2020; 29. View in Article PubMed; Google Scholar ...

  8. PDF Preventing Hiv/Aids in Young People: a Systematic Review of The

    The effectiveness of sex education and HIV education interventions in schools in developing countries Douglas Kirby,Angela Obasi,&B.A. Laris 5.1Introduction and 104background 5.2Methods 5.3Findings 5.4Discussion and recommendations 6.Review of the evidence for interventions to increase young people's use of health services in developing countries

  9. Healthcare

    A search of the literature examined articles from 1990 to 2012 on housing challenges encountered by older adults with HIV in acquiring safe and appropriate housing, yielded only one article , a qualitative study examining the housing experiences of older adults with HIV. This systematic PRISMA review explores the literature from 2012 to date on ...

  10. A study of awareness on HIV/AIDS among adolescents: A ...

    Samkange-Zeeb, F. N., Spallek, L. & Zeeb, H. Awareness and knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among school-going adolescents in Europe: a systematic review of published literature ...

  11. Literature review on HIV and AIDS, education and marginalization

    In a meeting with members of the GMR Team in February 2009, the following areas of input were suggested: Children affected and infected by HIV and AIDS as a significant group of the most marginalized; Examination of the education policy, teaching and learning processes and curricula - their marginalizing and de-marginalizing impact on learners ...

  12. PDF CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

    Twenty-eight million people in Africa are living with HIV/AIDS and Southern Africa has the highest HIV adult prevalence in the world. Well over two thirds of the HIV/AIDS related deaths (18 million, or 72%) are from Africa (World Bank, 2002) and almost one in every ten adults in sub-Saharan Africa are HIV positive (UNESCO, 2002), although ...

  13. Advances in HIV Prevention and Treatment: A Literature Review

    Curr Res HIV 2017: CRHA-111. DOI: 10.29011/2575-7105. 100011. Background: The last decade has witnessed several advances in the management of HIV/AIDS with the development of potent and safe antiretroviral drugs and new HIV prevention technologies. Objective: This review summarizes the recent advances in the management of the HIV infection.

  14. PDF A Summary of Recent Literature

    2. This literature review summarizes empirical literature examining the prevalence of HIV stigma and discrimination and the relationship between stigma and HIV prevention, treatment and care, as well as evaluations of programs to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination. Publications in this literature review were published between mid-2005 ...

  15. PDF Systematic Literature Review Risk and Transmission of HIV, HCV & HBV

    Methodology and Summary. The literature review was conducted by UNODC consultant Dr Anna V. Williams (King's College London, Addictions Department), under the supervision of Fabienne Hariga, UNODC HIV Senior adviser. Riku Lehtovuori, UNODC HIV Monitoring & Evaluation Adviser provided comments on the different drafts. This report is part of a ...

  16. A literature review of the impact of HIV and AIDS on the role of the

    A literature review on the elderly and HIV and AIDS provided the data analysed for this article. Access to databases was mainly via EBSCO (www.ebsco.co), which allowed searches in major databases ...

  17. National HIV and HCV Screening Rates for Hospitalized People who Use

    To achieve the United States' Ending the HIV Epidemic goal of reducing new HIV infections by 75% by 2025, widespread screening for HIV is essential [].Around 40% of new infections are transmitted by people who do not know they have HIV [].HIV screening limits transmission of the virus and is the first step to linking patients to life-saving care.

  18. The impact of armed conflicts on HIV treatment outcomes in Sub-Saharan

    The review was limited to sub-Saharan Africa due to the region's disproportionately high affected by both HIV infection and armed conflicts[16 21,22,23,24] (Fig. 1), weak healthcare systems, and lack of clear directives and funding for addressing HIV care in conflict-affected settings.

  19. (PDF) A REVIEW ON: HIV AIDS

    Over the last 12 years, a total of 12,553 children under the age of 14 were found to be infected with HIV (Sadarang, et al., 2022). 7720 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that damages ...

  20. PDF Type of the Paper: Article Title: HIV and Pregnancy among Adolescents

    The scoping review has presented an extensive synopsis of all available literature on adolescent mothers living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa through the prevalence of adolescent pregnancies, including the risk factors, impacts on clinical outcomes and well-being, and the

  21. Sexual and reproductive health implementation research in humanitarian

    Meeting the health needs of crisis-affected populations is a growing challenge, with 339 million people globally in need of humanitarian assistance in 2023. Given one in four people living in humanitarian contexts are women and girls of reproductive age, sexual and reproductive health care is considered as essential health service and minimum standard for humanitarian response.