Table 2. Data extraction plan.
| Category | Variables |
| Details of the retrieved articles | Title, author and year of publication |
| Study details | Year the study was conducted, country the study was conducted, study design |
| Characteristics of study participants | Age, sex and sample size for intervention and control arms for both baseline and postintervention |
| Intervention characteristics | Name of intervention, setting where the intervention was carried out (community or hospital-based), type of intervention delivery, delivery period/follow-up duration, type of allocation (individual or cluster), type of comparison |
| Outcome measures | Knowledge of HIV prevention, condom use, risk sexual behaviours, number of sexual partners, HIV testing and counselling, uptake of PrEP, screening and treatment of STIs |
| Reported effect size measures | Relative risks or risk ratios (RRs), ORs (for dichotomous outcomes) and weighted mean differences or standardised mean differences (for continuous outcomes) |
ORodds ratioPrEPpre-exposure prophylaxisRRrelative riskSTIsexually transimitted infection