SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2025
Prevalence and epidemiological distribution of substance use among people living with HIV in the East African region: a meta-analysis.
Synthesis in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Background: The East African region lacks synthesised scientific evidence on the impact of different substances used on HIV management and treatment outcomes in this population. We meta-analysed epidemiological data on substance use among people living with HIV to determine the regional estimate of the prevalence, associated factors, and changes over time for each gender, per year or age. Method: The documents were obtained via electronic databases following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. Results: The 53 studies from the East African region showed a pool estimate proportion of 60.36%, 95% confidence interval (CI) (0.5301-0.6728) with an Conclusion: The East African region has a high prevalence of substance use among people living with HIV, which may further increase the risk of spread of infections and signs of deteriorating physical and mental health. Comprehensive treatment and establishing interventions for substance abuse/misuse among people living with HIV could be a top health priority in the region.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.