A 5-Year Review of the Impact of Lottery Incentives on HIV-Related Services.

Purpose Of Review: Lottery incentives are an innovative approach to encouraging HIV prevention, treatment initiation, and adherence behaviours. This paper reviews the latest research on lottery incentives' impact on HIV-related services, and their effectiveness for motivating behaviours to improve HIV service engagement and HIV health outcomes.

Recent Findings: Our review of ten articles, related to lottery incentives, published between 2018 and 2023 (inclusive) shows that lottery incentives have promise for promoting HIV-related target behaviours.

"I would watch her with awe as she swallowed the first handful": A qualitative study of pediatric multidrug-resistant tuberculosis experiences in Durban, South Africa.

Background: There are limited data on the experiences of children being treated for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), and most work in the area has been done with older children and adolescents. Comprehensive explorations of the caregiver experiences in this area are also lacking.

Objective: To describe the experiences of being treated for drug-resistant tuberculosis of children and their caregivers.