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This article presents a discussion on the role of family interventions in HIV/AIDS disease prevention and care.

Although HIV/AIDS epidemic and its impact on the society traditionally has been measured in terms of individual risk behaviours and individual‐level HIV prevention, HIV/AIDS family‐focused prevention and management strategies are increasingly becoming a priority. However, little is known as to what constitutes a HIV/AIDS family intervention.

The search was limited to English and published literature starting in the year 1983 to date. CINAHL and PubMed were emphasized using a combination of text words and subject headings. Cochrane Library, PsycInfo, Scopus, and the ISI Web of Science databases were also searched using keywords and in the case of PsycInfo, subject headings were used. The main keywords were ‘nurse’, or ‘nursing’, ‘HIV/AIDS’, ‘family …