Publications
World Health Organization: Essential prevention and care interventions for adults and adolescents living with HIV in resource-limited settings
We were invited to produce a series of background papers of the evidence for “prevention for positives” interventions. The goal was to discern which interventions work and which don’t, in preventing and treating opportunistic infections and preventing the further spread of HIV, for patients living with HIV infection. We then convened a consensus conference with CDC, WHO and HHS, and our materials were used to create new WHO guidelines. Download the document here.
Journal articles selected from a bi-weekly digest produced by the UCSF Institute for Global Health (IGH)
The IGH Literature Digest highlights recently published studies of interventions that generally have one or more of the following aims: to reduce sexual or drug-related risk behaviors, decrease primary or secondary transmission, improve health service delivery and quality of life, or improve HIV treatment and adherence. Studies were either conducted in, or have applications to, resource-limited settings.
Cochrane HIV/AIDS reviews summarized in the International Journal of Epidemiology (with commentary)
- Mass media interventions for promoting HIV testing. International Journal of Epidemiology 2005;35:233–236
- Vitamin A supplementation for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection. International Journal of Epidemiology 2006;35:832–835
Some recent non-Cochrane systematic reviews
- Lew W, Pai M, Oxlade O, Martin D, Menzies D.Initial drug resistance and tuberculosis treatment outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis.Ann Intern Med. 2008 Jul 15;149(2):123-34. Review
- Atashili J, Poole C, Ndumbe PM, Adimora AA, Smith JS.Bacterial vaginosis and HIV acquisition: a meta-analysis of published studies.AIDS. 2008 Jul 31;22(12):1493-501. Review.
- Uthman O. Prevalence and pattern of HIV-related malnutrition among women in sub-Saharan Africa: a meta-analysis of demographic health surveys.BMC Public Health. 2008 Jul 2;8:226.
- Chigwedere P, Seage GR, Lee TH, Essex M.Efficacy of antiretroviral drugs in reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa: a meta-analysis of published clinical trials.AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2008 Jun;24(6):827-37.
- Ba O, O'Regan C, Nachega J, Cooper C, Anema A, Rachlis B, Mills EJ.HIV/AIDS in African militaries: an ecological analysis.Med Confl Surviv. 2008 Apr-Jun;24(2):88-100.
- Shahmanesh M, Patel V, Mabey D, Cowan F.Effectiveness of interventions for the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in female sex workers in resource poor setting: a systematic review.Trop Med Int Health. 2008 May;13(5):659-79. Epub 2008 Feb 11. Review.
- Operario D, Soma T, Underhill K.Sex work and HIV status among transgender women: systematic review and meta-analysis.J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2008 May 1;48(1):97-103. Review.
- Denison JA, O'Reilly KR, Schmid GP, Kennedy CE, Sweat MD.HIV voluntary counseling and testing and behavioral risk reduction in developing countries: a meta-analysis, 1990--2005.AIDS Behav. 2008 May;12(3):363-73. Epub 2007 Dec 27.
- Anema A, Mills E, Montaner J, Brownstein JS, Cooper C.Efficacy of influenza vaccination in HIV-positive patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.HIV Med. 2008 Jan;9(1):57-61. Review
- Chen L, Jha P, Stirling B, Sgaier SK, Daid T, et al. Sexual Risk Factors for HIV Infection in Early and Advanced HIV Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Overview of 68 Epidemiological Studies. PLoS ONE 2(10)
- Pai NP, Tulsky JP, Cohan D, Colford JM Jr, Reingold AL.Rapid point-of-care HIV testing in pregnant women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Trop Med Int Health. 2007 Feb;12(2):162-73. Review.
- Herbst J et al. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Behavioral Interventions to Reduce HIV Risk Behaviors of Hispanics in the United States and Puerto Rico. AIDS Behav. 2006 Aug 18.
- Copenhaver M et al. Behavioral HIV risk reduction among people who inject drugs: Meta-analytic evidence of efficacy. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 31 (2006) 163– 171
Tutorial on Systematic Reviews
Pai, Madhukar, et al., Clinical Research Methods, Systematic reviews and meta-analysis: An illustrated, step-by-step guide, The National Medical Journal of India, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2004, pp. 86-95
Evidence Assessment
In 2004, Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group created an evidence assessment of strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care, with a particular focus on research in resource-constrained settings. We analyzed more than 60 systematic reviews and meta-analyses of high methodological quality, with a strong preference for the "gold standard" reviews produced by the Cochrane Collaboration.
Articles:
George Rutherford, International AIDS Society Newsletter No. 10, June 1998
Abstracts:
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, UC Berkeley, May 2002
School of Public Health Student Poster Session, UC Berkeley, March 2002:
- Evaluation of Study Quality and Publication Bias in Systematic Reviews
- Approaches to Confounding and Heterogeneity in Systematic Reviews
Presentations:
Poster presentation at February, 1999 California University-wide AIDS Research Project Meeting
Presentation at 1998 World AIDS Conference:
Workshop presentation at 6th Annual Cochrane Colloquium, 1998:
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