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Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group Editorial Policy

• Inclusion and appraisal of experimental and observational studies
• Heterogeneity and statistical analysis

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

Other systematic reviews

• 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
• Systematic Review of HIV Behavioral Prevention Research Among Heterosexual African Americans. UARP California Collaborations in HIV Prevention Research Dissemination Project.
  

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.

• Selections archived at UCSF’s HIV InSite

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

• TUTORIAL (pdf)

Archival (OLD) materials

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.

• Document (pdf-668 kB)
• TABLES (pdf-1.1 MB)

Articles:

George Rutherford, International AIDS Society Newsletter No. 10, June 1998

• The Cochrane Collaboration and HIV/AIDS

Abstracts:

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, UC Berkeley, May 2002

• Evaluation of study quality, heterogeneity, and publication bias: A survey of systematic reviews on HIV/AIDS

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

• Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS

Presentation at 1998 World AIDS Conference:

• Evidence-based medicine, evidence-based public health and systematic reviews

Workshop presentation at 6th Annual Cochrane Colloquium, 1998:

• Starting and maintaining a new Collaborative Review Group: the Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS