Health policies to control the HIV pandemic for the trans population: a scoping review

Objective: Identify health policies developed with a focus on the transgender population to prevent and eliminate HIV transmission in this key population. Introduction: The HIV/AIDS epidemic is concentrated in vulnerable populations known as key populations, with a higher prevalence of infection observed in transsexuals. A scoping review is an appropriate approach to mapping knowledge about strategies and identifying gaps to direct future research and health policies. Moreover, it allows us to bring together more effective global practices for preventing HIV transmission. Inclusion criteria: The analysis of the relevance of the studies and the extraction and synthesis of data will be carried out by two independent reviewers. To determine the inclusion criteria, the acronym "PCC" (Population, Concept, and Context) was used and will consider studies that address health policies aimed at transgender people who are exposed to the risk of HIV infection. Methods: For this protocol, the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidelines and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) were used. The databases used will be PubMed, Cochrane, Scopus, LILACS, Web of Science, Embase, ProQuest, and Scholar Google, as well as a manual search in reference lists of studies and publications by experts in the field. The results of the final search will be exported to the EndNote Web reference manager, where duplicate articles will be removed and relevant references will be selected for analysis and, subsequently, the data will be grouped into tables.