Systematic reviews of behavioural interventions for reducing the risk of HIV and AIDS : are we getting the evidence? : letter to the editor

Researchers, public health practitioners and patients are loaded with unmanageable amounts of information about the best approaches to change behaviours that put people at risk of getting infected with HIV and AIDS. Over the last 30 years, there has been an exponential rise in the number of publishe...

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Published inSAHARA J : journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 477 - 481
Main Author Setswe, G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Taylor & Francis 01.08.2006
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Summary:Researchers, public health practitioners and patients are loaded with unmanageable amounts of information about the best approaches to change behaviours that put people at risk of getting infected with HIV and AIDS. Over the last 30 years, there has been an exponential rise in the number of published scientific articles across health fields. There have been 131 000 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) completed since 1948, over 2 million articles are published annually in the biomedical literature in over 20 000 journals.
ISSN:1729-0376
1813-4424