Randomised trials of HIV prevention.

Ronald H Gray, Maria J Wawer

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Article in Lancet (London, England), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in

7citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
Pooled it
The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in Papua New Guinea: a systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2010
Pooled it
HIV prevention cost-effectiveness: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2009
Pooled it
Appropriateness of hydroxyethylcellulose gel as a placebo control in vaginal microbicide trials: a comparison of the two control arms of HPTN 035.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2013
Trial
The past, present, and future of HIV prevention: integrating behavioral, biomedical, and structural intervention strategies for the next generation of HIV prevention.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2009
Review
Adherence to biomedical HIV prevention methods: considerations drawn from HIV treatment adherence research.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2008
Review
Public health. Reassessing HIV prevention.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2008
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Diaphragm and lubricant gel for prevention of HIV acquisition in southern African women: a randomised controlled trial.2007

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ronald H GrayDepartment of Population & Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: rgray@jhsph.edu.

Maria J WawerDepartment of Population & Family Health Sciences, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Safe SexTreatment RefusalCondomsContraceptive Devices, FemaleFemaleHIV InfectionsHumansMaleRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTreatment Failure

Identifiers

PMID17631388

DOI10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61058-7

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