Using eHealth to engage and retain priority populations in the HIV treatment and care cascade in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review of literature

Table 4 eHealth and HIV testing, linkage to care and treatment adherence

Study	Country	Study design	Study Population Sample size (N=)	Technology mode	Purpose of study	Study description	Study duration	Key outcome assessed of interest in this review	Results/Authors’ conclusions
Internet to increase HIV testing and treatment uptake
Mi et al. 2015	China	Quasi-RCT	HIV positive MSM N = 202	Internet	Investigate efficacy of web-based intervention in increasing HIV testing and treatment uptake among MSM	I = participants were given access to online program including an information exchanges website, a bulletin board system, an individualised online counselling with trained peer educators, and an animation game C = standard of care	24 weeks	Early initiation of ART Motivating partners to receive ART	The intervention group had significant increases in motivating partners to accept HIV testing (42.3% vs 25.5%, p = 0.0156) compared with the control group. There were no between-group differences on receiving ART (p = 0.368).

I intervention group, C control group, PI pre-intervention group, MSM men who have sex with men, SMS short message service, HIV human immunodeficiency virus, STI sexually transmissible infections, VCT Voluntary Counselling and Testing, CI confidence interval, iPOL internet popular opinion leaders, nPEP non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis, HCW health care workers, AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, RCT randomised controlled trial, PLHIV people living with HIV, ART antiretroviral therapy, IVR interactive voice response, QoL quality of life, SMS short message service, N/A not applicable, CD4 cluster of differentiation 4, EDM electronic drug monitoring, RR risk ratio

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