Scoping review protocol to map nutrition and food-related interventions targeting young people living with HIV/AIDS.

INTRODUCTION

Adolescents living with HIV are at a high nutritional risk. Ensuring optimal nutrition and food security is fundamental for promoting the health of adolescents and youth living with HIV/AIDS (AYLHIV), preventing HIV disease progression and improving quality of life. The objective of this scoping review is to map and identify the current literature concerning nutrition and food-related interventions addressing AYLHIV.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The study will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews. We will search for relevant studies in the following databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science and Google Scholar. We will perform additional searches of the grey literature using snowball search and citation tracking and manual searches of institutional websites. Titles and abstracts will then be screened by two independent reviewers for assessment against the inclusion criteria. Disagreements will be resolved through discussion. A data extraction form will be used to guide the data extraction.

ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This review will involve the collection and analysis of secondary sources that have been published and/or are publicly available. Therefore, ethics approval is not required. The results will be published in an international peer-reviewed journal, presented at scientific conferences and disseminated through digital science communication platforms.

TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: The protocol is registered in the Open Science Framework: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/HGBKV.