The mental health of people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa: a systematic review

R Brandt - African Journal of AIDS Research, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… problems found in PLHIV, depression appears to be the most … depressive symptoms above
the levels expected for non-HIV-… of major depression in recently diagnosed patients with HIV/…

Smoking, depression, and gender in low-income African Americans with HIV/AIDS

DW Stewart, GN Jones, KS Minor - Behavioral Medicine, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
HIV/AIDS. In addition to having staggering smoking prevalence rates, individuals with HIV/AIDS
are more likely to report depressive … of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in an HIV/AIDS

Treatment of depression in HIV positive individuals: a critical review

SJ Ferrando, Z Freyberg - International Review of Psychiatry, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… Only one published study has compared individual psychotherapies to antidepressant
medication for HIV+ patients with major and subsyndromal depressive disorders. Other …

Associations between depressive symptomatology and neurocognitive impairment in HIV/AIDS

S Tymchuk, D Gomez, N Koenig… - The Canadian …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
… In a subset of 65 patients within the cohort who had a formal psychiatric consultation, 24
were found to have major depressive disorder, although anxiety disorders were also present in …

Inflammation and risk of depression in HIV: prospective findings from the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study

H Lu, PJ Surkan, MR Irwin, GJ Treisman… - American journal of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… Whether inflammation is associated with heightened risk of depression in persons who
are HIV+ is not known, although patients with major depressive disorder exhibit increased …

Depression among HIV/AIDS patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy in the southwest regional hospitals of Cameroon: a cross-sectional study

PA Ngum, PN Fon, RC Ngu, VS Verla, HN Luma - Neurology and therapy, 2017 - Springer
… that one in five participants met the lifetime criteria for major depression disorders [19]. …
Our main objective was to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms amongst HIV/AIDS

Burden of depression in outpatient HIV-infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa; systematic review and meta-analysis

SM Lofgren, DJ Bond, N Nakasujja, DR Boulware - AIDS and Behavior, 2020 - Springer
… provide depression prevalence and burden among those HIV-… major depression as well as
depressive symptoms, as the diagnosis of major depression is more precise, but a depressive

Risk of major depressive disorder among older persons living in HIV-endemic central and southwestern Uganda

E Kinyanda, M Kuteesa, F Scholten, J Mugisha… - AIDS care, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is projected to become the second most common cause of
disability by 2020 calling for a better understanding its antecedents across the lifespan and …

Comorbidities and depression in older adults with HIV

RJ Havlik, M Brennan, SE Karpiak - Sexual health, 2011 - CSIRO Publishing
… in individuals with HIV infection, occurring in 36% in a national sample. Studies find that 4–23%
of those living with the virus have a major depressive disorder. Depression has been …

Psychopharmacologic treatment of patients with HIV/AIDS

SJ Ferrando - Current psychiatry reports, 2009 - Springer
… Mirtazapine, nefazodone, venlafaxine, and sustainedrelease bupropion have been studied
in small open-label trials in patients with major depression and HIV infection [25–27]. All …