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HIV/AIDS: mental and neurologic disorders

Africa

• African Health Sciences
  • Neurological disorders in HIV in Africa: a review [2019]

• Journal of Neurovirology
  • NeuroAIDS in Africa [2010]

• Systematic Reviews
  • Prevalence and incidence of major depressive disorders among people living with HIV residing in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol [2018]

Asia

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Psychological and Social Impact of HIV on Women Living with HIV and Their Families in Low- and Middle-Income Asian Countries: A Systematic Search and Critical Review [2022]

Asia-Pacific

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Barriers to mental healthcare and treatment for people living with HIV in the Asia-Pacific [2018]

Australia, New Zealand

• Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
  • Mental health and HIV/AIDS [2018]

Canada

• PLoS ONE
  • Adequacy of Mental Health Services for HIV-Positive Patients with Depression: Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study [2016]

Canada, United States

• IeDEA
  • The prevalence of mental health disorders in people with HIV and the effects on the HIV care continuum [2023]

China

• BMC Psychiatry
  • Prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• BMC Public Health
  • Self-injury and suicide among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Prevalence of suicide ideation among HIV/AIDS patients in China: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• PLoS ONE
  • The Mental Health of People Living with HIV in China, 1998–2014: A Systematic Review [2016]
  • Cross-Culture Validation of the HIV/AIDS Stress Scale: The Development of a Revised Chinese Version [2016]

East Africa

• Global Mental Health
  • East African HIV care: depression and HIV outcomes [2019]

Eastern Europe, Central Asia

• BMJ Open
  • Studies on cognitive performance among older people living with HIV in eastern Europe and central Asia: a scoping review [2025]

Ghana

• Ghana Medical Journal
  • Contemporary prevalence and predictors of anxiety among patients living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana [2022]

High-income countries

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Evidence from high-income countries on the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions to improve mental health, wellbeing and quality of life for adults living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

International

• AIDS and Behavior
  • A Systematic Review of Self-Management Interventions Conducted Across Global Settings for Depressive Symptoms in Persons with HIV [2023]
  • Is There Any Evidence of Premature, Accentuated and Accelerated Aging Effects on Neurocognition in People Living with HIV? A Systematic Review [2021]

• AIDS Research and Therapy
  • The prevalence of depression among adolescent with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Mapping the effectiveness of integrating mental health in HIV programs: a scoping review [2023]

• BMJ Open
  • Prevalence of common mental disorders and sleep disorder among adolescents and young adults with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]
  • Global estimate of the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder among adults living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2020]

• Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Worldwide Occurrence of HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders and Its Associated Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2022]
  • The Global Landscape of the Burden of Depressive Symptoms/Major Depression in Individuals Living With HIV/AIDs and Its Effect on Antiretroviral Medication Adherence: An Umbrella Review [2022]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Prevalence of mental disorders among young people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• IeDEA
  • Availability of screening and treatment for common mental disorders in HIV clinic settings: data from the global International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Consortium, 2016-2017 and 2020 [2023]

• International Journal of Nursing Studies
  • Comparative efficacy and acceptability of non-pharmacological interventions for depression in people living with HIV: A systematic review and network meta-analysis [2023]

• Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Global prevalence of suicide in patients living with HIV/AIDS: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, associated factors and coping strategies in people living with HIV: a scoping review [2023]
  • Intervening for HIV prevention and mental health: a review of global literature [2021]
  • How does living with HIV impact on women's mental health? Voices from a global survey [2015]

• Lancet HIV
  • Fostering healthy cognitive ageing in people living with HIV [2025]

• PLoS ONE
  • Global overview of suicidal behavior and associated risk factors among people living with human immunodeficiency virus: A scoping review [2023]

• Psychosomatic Medicine
  • Suicidality Among People Living With HIV From 2010 to 2021: A Systematic Review and a Meta-regression [2022]

• Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
  • Self-inflicted violence and suicide in people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review [2022]

• Scientific Reports
  • The prevalence and moderating factors of sleep disturbances in people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• UNAIDS
  • Integration of mental health and HIV interventions — Key considerations [2022]

Iran

• Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Prevalence of depression in people with HIV and AIDS in Iran: A systematic review [2017]

Low and middle income countries

• BJPsych Open
  • Mental health interventions for adolescents living with HIV or affected by HIV in low- and middle-income countries: systematic review [2020]

• Current HIV/AIDS Reports
  • Trends and Clinical Characteristics of HIV and Cerebrovascular Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) Between 1990 and 2021 [2022]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Psychosocial interventions for depression delivered by non-mental health specialists to people living with HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review [2022]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Mental health interventions for persons living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review [2021]
  • Screening and management of mental health and substance use disorders in HIV treatment settings in low- and middle-income countries within the global IeDEA consortium [2018]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Psychological interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder in people living with HIV in Resource poor settings: a systematic review [2016]

Mozambique

• AIDS Care
  • Prevalence and psychosocial factors associated with self-injurious thoughts among people living with HIV presenting for HIV testing in Mozambique [2022]

Republic of Korea

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Risk of suicide in people living with HIV: A nationwide, retrospective population-based cohort study in South Korea [2025]

Senegal

• IeDEA
  • Costs analysis of integrating group interpersonal therapy into HIV care services in Senegal [2025]

South Africa

• AIDS Research and Therapy
  • Exploring HIV status as a mediator in the relationship of psychological distress with socio-demographic and health related factors in South Africa: findings from the 2012 nationally representative population-based household survey [2023]

• Frontiers in Public Health
  • Determinants of psychological distress among individuals who are aware of their HIV serostatus in South Africa: findings from the 2017 national HIV prevalence, incidence, behavior, and communication survey [2024]

Spain

• HIV Medicine
  • Perception of HIV physicians in Spain towards diagnosis and management of neuropsychiatric comorbidities in people with HIV [2022]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• AIDS and Behavior
  • Mental Health Problems Across the HIV Care Continuum for Adolescents Living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review [2023]
  • Understanding Mental Health in the Context of Adolescent Pregnancy and HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review Identifying a Critical Evidence Gap [2021]

• BMC Psychiatry
  • Depressive symptoms and its determinants among people living with HIV in Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and variability of HIV/AIDS-associated neurocognitive impairments in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• BMJ Open
  • Mental health and well-being of older adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2021]

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Neurocognitive deficits and socioeconomic risk factors among children and adolescents living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2022]

• Global Mental Health
  • The prevalence of mental health problems in sub-Saharan adolescents living with HIV: a systematic review [2020]

• IeDEA
  • Accuracy of Alternative PHQ-9 Scoring Algorithms to Screen for Depression in People Living With HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa [2025]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Neurocognitive impairment in HIV-1-infected adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Prevalence and factors associated with common mental disorders in young people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2021]

• Journal of Virus Eradication
  • Mental health and HIV: research priorities related to the implementation and scale up of ‘treat all’ in sub-Saharan Africa [2018]

• Scientific Reports
  • Poor sleep quality and its associated factors among HIV/ADIS patients living in sub-Saharan African countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Virology Journal
  • Sensory neuropathy and associated factors among patients living with human immuno-deficiency virus in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2025]

Switzerland

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Mortality from suicide among people living with HIV and the general Swiss population: 1988-2017 [2019]

• PLoS ONE
  • Alcohol consumption and neurocognitive deficits in people with well-treated HIV in Switzerland [2021]
  • Frequency of and Risk Factors for Depression among Participants in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) [2015]

United States

• American Academy of Neurology
  • Evidence-based guideline: Antiepileptic drug selection for people with HIV/AIDS [2012]

• Current HIV/AIDS Reports
  • Treatment Considerations for HIV-Infected Individuals with Severe Mental Illness [2013]

• Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • 2017 HIVMA of IDSA Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Chronic Pain in Patients Living With HIV [2017]

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • State of the Science of Central Nervous System Complications in People With HIV [2023]

• Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
  • Implementation of PHQ-9 Depression Screening for HIV-Infected Patients in a Real-World Setting [2013]

• National Institute of Mental Health
  • HIV and AIDS and Mental Health

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Integration of mental health and HIV interventions [2022]
  • HIV/AIDS and mental health: report by the Secretariat [2009]

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