Table 2: Key points of the search results in Democratic Republic of Congo.
| Access to Health Services | |
| Peters, et al. [12] | Poverty and access to healthcare in developing countries. |
| Collins [11] | Poverty and HIV link. |
| AVERTing HIV and AIDS [5] | Education and approaches to reduce stigma related to HIV on a global scale. |
| Ayiga [13] | Stigma reduces HIV testing/services. As education increases, stigma is reduced. |
| Maketa, et al. [14] | Lack of trust in health care workers, lack of information, negative rumors are all causes for not getting health care services. |
| Misconceptions, Cultural Beliefs, and Lack of HIV Knowledge | |
| Carlos, et al. [20] | Msconceptions: lack of knowledge, what HIV looks like, incorrect ways to contract the disease. |
| AVERTing HIV and AIDS [5] | Education and approaches to reduce stigma related to HIV on a global scale. |
| Hawkes, et al. [15] | Religious beliefs in the DRC impacting HIV. Cross-sectional study, 97% Christian and 7.4% tested positive. Higher rates among Catholic Christian subcategory, and decreased condom use with higher church attendance rates. |
| UNICEF [27] | DRC gender inequality and women having higher rates of HIV. |
| Dimbuene [21] | Relationship between parents' and adolescents' knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission routes and prevention. Gender, communication, education gaps. |
| Neighborhood Education and Community Trust | |
| Ayiga, Nambooze [13] | Stigma reduces HIV testing/services. As education increases, stigma is reduced. |
| AVERTing HIV and AIDS [5] | Education and approaches to reduce stigma related to HIV on a global scale |
| MacIntyre, et al. [24] | Keys to understanding communities and building trust between NGOs and African communities to reduce rates of HIV/AIDS |
| Schirvel, et al. [17] | 2 midwives provided community HIV education. Increased testing, return for care, and partner testing. Greatest impact seen in partner testing increase from 1-21%. HIV education can increase HIV testing. |
| Maketa, et al. [14] | Lack of trust in health care workers, lack of information, negative rumors are all causes for not getting health care services. |
| Kayeyi [8] | "HIV prevalence decreased substantially by increasing level of neighbourhood education." |
| Van der Borght, et al. [9] | VCT; "Uptake of HIV testing can be actively influenced by educational or promotional activities." |
| Bewer [7] | "These findings suggest that knowledge of blood-borne HIV risk protects against HIV infection and that public education campaigns are important for spreading that knowledge." |
| Healthcare Approaches to Education and HIV Testing | |
| Vanden Driessche [18] | Health care provider education around HIV correlated with HIV testing: Important issues regarding HIV epidemiology and PEP remained poorly understood post-training. Mean post-training scores of clinic's HCWs were significantly correlated with the centre's HIV testing acceptance rates. |
| Vaz, et al. [25] | Health care provider roles and support to help parents with HIV disclose and educate their children |
| Parker, et al. [16] | Implementing a US-based prevention program in a low-resource community (DRC). |