Table 2 Included studies’ summary of findings
Study info | Demographics | ||||||||||
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ID | Author | Year | Country | Study type | Study population (N) | Age | %Male | Ethnicity | Education | Employment | Covid-19 infection |
1 | Ballivian et al. [22] | 2020 | Argentina | Quantitative Survey | 1336 HIV +  | 45.83 ± 10.34 | 66.8 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
2 | Giacomelli et al. [43] | 2021 | Italy | Retrospective study (before and after quasiexperimental design) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
3 | Hochstatter et al. [23] | 2021 | USA | Quasi-experimental (time-series design) | 60 HIV +  | 49 (Mean age) | 75 | White, Black/African American, Mixed, Hispanic/Latino | NA | Employed (39%) | NA |
4 | Quiros-Roldan et al. [24] | 2020 | Italy | Retrospective Observational Study | 3875 HIV +  | 51.4 ± 13 | 72 | Non-Italian | NA | NA | Hospitalized (48%) |
5 | Ridgway et al. [49] | 2020 | USA | NA | 98 HIV +  | NA | NA | African American | NA | NA | COVID + (14.5%), Hospitalized (75%) |
6 | Tamargo et al. [25] | 2021 | USA | Quantitative Survey | 183 HIV +  | 56.5 ± 6.5 | 50.3 | Non-Hispanic Black | NA | Unemployed (86.9%), Employed but on leave/had reduced hours (6.6%), Employed with no change (6.6%) | COVID + (7.6%), Hospitalized (0.6%) |
7 | Wagner et al. [26] | 2021 | Uganda | Observational Cohort Study | 14,632 HIV +  | 38.7 ± 0.11 | 34 | NA | NA | NA | NA |
8 | Ahmed et al. [27] | 2022 | Pakistan | Semi-structured interviews | 25 HIV +  | 41 | 68 | NA | No education (56%) | Unemployed (72%) | NA |
9 | Campbell et al. [28] | 2021 | South Africa | Cluster randomised control trial | 83 HIV +  | 31 | 29 | NA | Secondary (38.55%), Diploma (2.41%) | NA | NA |
10 | Chilot et al. [29] | 2021 | Ethiopia | Cross-Sectional Study | 212 HIV +  | 48.6% in the age group 35–54 years | 37.3 | NA | No education (21.7%), Can read and write (14.2%), Primary education (27.8%), Secondary education (20.8%), Diploma and above ( 15.6%) | NA | NA |
11 | Karjadi et al. [30] | 2021 | Indonesia | Cross-Sectional Study | 545 HIV +  | 66.5% in age group 36–55 years | 72.8 | NA | High-school graduate (49.5%) | NA | NA |
12 | Nguyen et al. [31] | 2021 | USA | Cross-sectional surveys | 100 HIV +  | 64.2 | 96 | NA | College education or higher (93.9%) | NA | NA |
13 | Rhodes et al. [33] | 2020 | South of USA | Qualitative study | 15 HIV + cisgender men | 28 | 100 | Black/African American (50%), Latina (33%), White (27%) | NA | NA | NA |
14 | SieweFodjo et al. [21] | 2021 | 26 countries, with a majority of respondents residing in Brazil (n = 83) and Belgium (n = 82) | Cross-sectional online survey | 247 HIV +  | 44.5 ± 13.2 | 73.7 | NA | Primary (7.7%), Secondary (29.6%), Undergraduate (30.4%), Post-graduate (32.4%) | NA | COVID + (15.3%) |
15 | Yang et al. [32] | 2021 | China | Cross-sectional Online Survey | 1029 HIV healthcare providers | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
16 | Qiao et al. [42] | 2021 | USA | Mixed-method study | 27 HIV Clinics | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |