Table 2.
Attributes and levels
| Attributes | Levels | Level coding | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Target group | Children (Child) | Child | 0 - 12 years old |
| Teenagers | Teen | 13 - 20 years old | |
| High risk adults | HiRisk | ≥ 21 years old with high risk behavior e.g. sex workers, | |
| men who have sex with men, injected drug users, | |||
| pregnant women, etc. | |||
| All adults | Adults | ≥ 21 years old without any specification | |
| Gender of | Male | Male | aiming to male population |
| target group | Female | Female | aiming to female population |
| Both genders | BothGen | not specify gender of target group | |
| Type of | Treatment and care of patients | HIV | aiming to treat HIV infected people (CD4 ≥ 200) and |
| intervention | with HIV (not AIDS) | reduce HIV transmission | |
| Treatment and care of patients | AIDS | aiming to treat AIDS patients (CD4 < 200) | |
| with AIDS | |||
| Preventing HIV | Prevent | aiming to prevent general publics from HIV infection | |
| Effectiveness | Low effective | LoEff | less than 50% of participants benefit |
| High effective | HiEff | more than 50% of participants benefit | |
| Quality of evidence | Weak evidence | Weak | no evidence but observation and/or expert opinions |
| on effectiveness | Strong evidence | Strong | evidence from domestic and/or international literatures |