Systematic Reviews on the Prevention of HIV and AIDS

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence about the prevention of HIV and AIDS.
Reviewed October 2011

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Title:   Oral substitution treatment for injecting opioid users reduces drug-related behaviours with a high risk of HIV transmission, but has less effect on sex-related risk behaviours.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Injecting drug users are vulnerable to infection with HIV and other blood borne viruses as a result of collective use of injecting equipment as well as sexual behaviour. This review looks at original studies that reported the frequency or prevalence of ...
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Workplace interventions can reduce risky sexual behaviours among workers.
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   We included eight studies with 11,164 participants but one study did not provide enough data to be useful. One study from Africa found a strong increase in uptake of Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) to 51% when delivered on-site which was 14 times...
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Sperm washing to prevent HIV transmission from HIV-infected men but allowing conception in sero-discordant couples
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sperm washing is a technique that concentrates and separates the seminal fluid from the sperm in HIV-positive males. HIV is known to reside in the semen of HIV-positive men. When a woman wants to get pregnant, she is artificially inseminated with the sp...
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Multi-media social marketing campaigns to increase HIV testing uptake among men who have sex with men and transgender women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Men who have sex with men and transgender women are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS worldwide. Unrecognized infections could be one of the driving forces of ongoing HIV transmission among these populations. Thus, it is important to promote HIV t...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Vitamin A supplementation for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV is the primary way that children become infected with HIV. More than 1000 children worldwide are infected in this way every day. Researchers theorized that giving vitamin A supplements to HIV-infected pregnant ...
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   Psychosocial interventions for the reduction of injection and sexual risk behaviour for preventing HIV in drug users
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People who misuse drugs are at greater risk of developing HIV. Interventions designed to reduce this risk have been developed. There were 35 trials on 11,867 participants that examined whether these interventions are effective in reducing sexual and inj...
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Male circumcision for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Results from three large randomised controlled trials conducted in Africa have shown strong evidence that male circumcision prevents men in the general population from acquiring HIV from heterosexual sex. At a local level, further research will be neede...
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Vaginal disinfection for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV is the primary way that children become infected with HIV. More than 2000 children worldwide are infected in this way every day. Researchers theorized that disinfecting the vaginal area of HIV-infected pregnant...
Date:   Aug 2005
Title:   Nonoxynol-9 for preventing vaginal acquisition of HIV infection by women from men
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The spermicide nonoxynol-9 does not prevent women becoming infected with sexually transmitted infections, and when used very frequently has been shown to cause open genital sores (which may theoretically increase the chance of acquiring sexually transmi...
Date:   May 2002
Title:   Using condoms consistently reduces sexual transmission of HIV infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sexual intercourse and contact with contaminated blood products (e.g., intravenous drug use) account for the majority of HIV infections. The wearing of condoms during sexual intercourse has been promoted to reduce the infection and spread of sexually tr...
Date:   Nov 2001

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