Systematic Reviews on the Prevention of HIV and AIDS

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence from studies about the prevention of HIV and AIDS.
Reviewed September 2009

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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:   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:   Feb 2008
Title:   Substitution treatment of injecting opioid users for prevention of HIV infection
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:   Dec 2007
Title:   Vaginal disinfection for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The primary objective of this review of clinical and randomised studies is to estimate the effect of vaginal disinfection during labour on the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection in HIV infected women. The secondary objectives are to d...
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:   Condom effectiveness in reducing heterosexual HIV transmission
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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