Table 2.
Research summary of the included publications
| Author/year of study | Country | Study Type & Sample | Aim of Study | Main Themes | Quality Score** | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fertility Desire | Contraceptive Use | Perinatal Experience | Safer Sex | Sexual Life | |||||
| Adam et al., 2016 [39] | Sudan | Quantitative (descriptive study) / 26 WLHIV* | To investigate the maternal characteristics, pregnancy outcomes and estimate of maternal to child transmission of HIV among HIV infected women. | x | x | 25% | |||
| Anwar et al., 2010 [40] | Bangladesh | Sequential mixed method / 15 PLHIV* (Qualitative); 38 WLHIV & 76 MLHIV1 (Quantitative) | To explore sexual life of people with HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh | x | x | x | x | 75% | |
| Behboodi-Moghadam et al., 2015 [41] | Iran | Qualitative (content analysis) / 15 WLHIV | To explore fertility intentions and experiences of infected women with HIV | x | x | x | 75% | ||
| Behboodi-Moghadam et al., 2016 [42] | Iran | Qualitative (content analysis) / 12 pregnant WLHIV | To explore the experience of pregnancy among Iranian women with HIV | x | x | 75% | |||
| Davis et al., 2017 [43] | Kazakhstan | Quantitative (cross-sectional study) / 242 WLHIV | To determine the extent which HIV-positive women are trading sex and to identify risk factors that may drive participation in sex trading among this population | x | 75% | ||||
| El Fane et al., 2011 [44] | Morocco | Quantitative (descriptive study)/72 WLHIV & 62 MLHIV | To identify sexual disorders affecting PLWHA and to determine factors influencing their sexuality | x | x | 50% | |||
| Jiwatram-Negron et al., 2017 [45] | Kazakhstan | Quantitative (cross-sectional survey) / 249 WLHIV | To explore whether similar or different patterns of risk and protective factors emerge | x | 75% | ||||
| Kaplan et al., 2016 [46] | Lebanon | Qualitative (constant comparative) / 10 WLHIV | To develop a framework that facilitates understanding of the process by which women created meaning in their lives during and after learning of their sero-positivity. | x | 75% | ||||
| Karaosmanoglu et al., 2011 [47] | Turkey | Quantitative (descriptive study)/27 WLHIV & 109 MLHIV | To determine the epidemiologic and clinical features of patient with HIV infections and AIDS followed during a 3.5-year period. | x | 50% | ||||
| Mohammadi et al., 2015 [48] | Iran | Qualitative (content analysis)/10 WLHIV | To explore the lived experience of domestic violence in Iranian HIV-infected women | x | 75% | ||||
| Nedjat et al., 2015 [49] | Iran | Mixed method descriptive sudy / 25 WLHIV & 20 MLHIV (Qualitative); 160 WLHIV & 240 MLHIV | To evaluate the sexual and reproductive health needs of PLHIV in Tehran | x | x | x | x | x | 100% |
| Rahmalia et al., 2015 [50] | Indonesia | Quantitative (prospective cohort) / 881 WLHIV & 1781 MLHIV | To determine the relative proportion of female patients in an HIV cohort and characterized their probable transmission route and reproductive profile. | x | x | 75% | |||
| Saeieh et al., 2016 [51] | Iran | Qualitative (content analysis) / 18 WLHIV | To explore experience s of HIV positive women about contraceptive use | x | x | x | x | 75% | |
*WLHIV Women living with HIV, PLHIV People living with HIV, MLHIV Men living with HIV
**Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool version 2011 [30]. The score is 25% when QUAL = 1 or QUAN = 1 or MM = 0; it is 50% when QUAL = 2 or QUAN = 2 or MM = 1; it is 75% when QUAL = 3 or QUAN = 3 or MM = 2; and it is 100% when QUAL = 4 and QUAN = 4 and MM = 3 (QUAL being the score of the qualitative component; QUAN the score of the quantitative component; and MM the score of the mixed methods component