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Depression presents a major cause of disability globally, but there is a paucity of data available from low- and middle-income countries in the context of HIV. This research gap is important to address given that there were 38.4 million people living with HIV worldwide in 2021 according to statistics from the World Health Organisation. Perhaps more sobering still, almost half of those living with HIV are women of childbearing age, and perinatal women living with HIV have a greater risk of depression compared to other women. In a commentary in this issue of PLOS Medicine, Mark Tomlinson and Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus discuss a new peer-facilitated psychological group intervention for perinatal women living with HIV and receiving antiretroviral therapy. They also provide detailed insight into key areas of design and evaluation with a view to driving forward the field of perinatal mental health interventions.
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Citation: (2023) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 19(12) January 2023. PLoS Med 19(12): ev19.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v19.i12
Published: January 17, 2023
Copyright: © 2023 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Depression presents a major cause of disability globally, but there is a paucity of data available from low- and middle-income countries in the context of HIV. This research gap is important to address given that there were 38.4 million people living with HIV worldwide in 2021 according to statistics from the World Health Organisation. Perhaps more sobering still, almost half of those living with HIV are women of childbearing age, and perinatal women living with HIV have a greater risk of depression compared to other women. In a commentary in this issue of PLOS Medicine, Mark Tomlinson and Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus discuss a new peer-facilitated psychological group intervention for perinatal women living with HIV and receiving antiretroviral therapy. They also provide detailed insight into key areas of design and evaluation with a view to driving forward the field of perinatal mental health interventions.
Image Credit: Annie Spratt, Unsplash