Community Nursing Interventions to Minimize the Prevalence of AIDS: A Systematic Review

Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION AND EVALUATION
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Introduction:
Maintenance of safe sexual health has been listed as a primary concern in relation to the
global health and wellness status of the world. On an average, statistical evidences have revealed
that more than 36.7 million individuals in the world are affected with AIDS (WHO & UNICEF,
2014). In this context, it has further been stated that 30% of the global population is unaware
about their respective HIV status (WHO & UNICEF, 2014). HIV expanded as the human
immune deficiency virus is a subcategory of the lentivirus that falls under a retrovirus type and
has been reported to cause a fatal autoimmune disorder in human beings (Williams et al., 2013).
The virus is said to degrade the natural in-built immunological mechanism of the body and
affects the ability of the body to sustain itself against agents that lead to the cause of
immunological infections and disorder. AIDS have been attributed to be the one of the most fatal
disorders of all times that deteriorates the defense-mechanism of the body completely
(Yoshikura, 2015). Numerous factors have been connected with the incidence of the disease but
the cause due to indulgence in unprotected sexual intercourse has been listed as the most
important reason worldwide. It has been reported that appropriate community nursing
interventions can help in reducing the prevalence of the disease. This essay would focus on the
global status of AIDS in the population worldwide and at the same time explain the available
interventions in order to minimize the prevalence of the disorder and also with the effective use
of systematic review would devise innovative measures that could be undertaken to modernize
the available intervention strategies.
Discussion:
Researchers have stated that in order to conduct an effective systematic review, it is
extremely important to include a thorough search strategy. An authentic systematic review is

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broadly dependent upon an efficient search strategy that makes use of the best screening filters to
scrutinize and evaluate the available literary sources. The search strategy that was implied in
order to screen relevant literary sources in order to conduct this systematic review was based
upon the PRISMA search strategy. The search strategy proceeded with the consideration of
inclusion and exclusion characteristics and the incorporation of key words such as sexually
transmitted disease, HIV, AIDS, society perception, stigma and community based nursing
evidences. The inclusion criteria comprised of factors such as the year of publication that ranged
between the time-period of 2013 to 2017.
Another important characteristic comprised of all the available research papers that were
published in English language and were about the community based nursing interventions
adapted in order to minimize the prevalence of AIDS. The exclusion criteria comprised of papers
that were published before 2013 and were published in languages other than English. The
exclusion characteristics also excluded the papers that did not comprise of community nursing
interventions to promote sexual hygiene and effectively deal with AIDS. A total of 15 papers
were filtered from the popular databases PubMed and Google Scholar. Filters such as the date of
publication, language and key terms were included in order to derive the most relevant literary
journals. The 15 papers that were segregated included certain papers that dealt with other
autoimmune disorder and the genetic therapies available for the treatment of such disorders.
Research studies have revealed that the set of population that is primarily affected with
this disorder comprise of members belonging to the homosexual community who indulge in
same similar sexual activities (Stangl et al., 2013). Sex workers and teenagers practicing drug
abuse also form a major proportion of the affected population. Prison inmates who are isolated
from basic health facilities and possess no knowledge about the maintenance of personal hygiene