Social marketing interventions to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2011

Social marketing interventions to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women - The Cochrane Library - Wei - Wiley Online Library from LOGIN Enter e-mail address Enter password REMEMBER ME > > > > DATABASE TOOLS DATABASE MENU FIND ARTICLES OTHER RESOURCES Intervention Review You have full text access to this content Social marketing interventions to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women Chongyi Wei 1,* , Amy Herrick 1 , H Fisher Raymond 2 , Andrew Anglemyer 3 , Antonio Gerbase 4 , Seth M Noar 5 Editorial Group: Published Online: 7 SEP 2011 Assessed as up-to-date: 23 SEP 2010 DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD009337 Copyright © 2011 The Cochrane Collaboration.
Social marketing interventions to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and male-to-female transgender women.
Publication History Publication Status: New Published Online: 7 SEP 2011 SEARCH ARTICLE TOOLS Abstract Abstract Background Social marketing interventions have been shown to both promote and change many health-related behaviours and issues.
As the HIV epidemic continues to disproportionately affect MSM and transgender women around the world, social marketing interventions have the potential to increase HIV/STI testing uptake among these populations.
Objectives To assess the impact of social marketing interventions on HIV/STI testing uptake among men who have sex with men and transgender women compared to pre-intervention or control group testing uptake in the same population.
Search methods We searched the following electronic databasesfor results from 01 January 1980 to the search date, 14 July 2010: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), EMBASE, LILACS (Latin America and Brazil), PsycINFO, PubMed, Web of Science/Web of Social Science, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and CQ VIP (China).
We also searched for conference abstracts in the Aegis archive of HIV/AIDS conference abstracts and the CROI and International AIDS Society websites.
We contacted individual researchers, experts working in the field, and authors of major trials for suggestions of any relevant manuscripts that were in preparation or in press.
References of published articles from the databases above were searched for additional, pertinent materials.
Selection criteria Randomized controlled trials and controlled clinical trials that compared social marketing interventions with a control were included.
Interrupted time series and pretest-posttest design studies (controlled or uncontrolled) that compared social marketing interventions with no intervention or a control were also included.