Digital Health Interventions Addressing HIV-related Stigma, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Africa: A Scoping Review

This scoping review aims to map and characterize the available evidence on digital health interventions addressing HIV-related stigma, privacy, and confidentiality in African settings. The review will identify and describe relevant digital health interventions, characterize the populations targeted, examine the mechanisms and strategies through which these interventions address stigma, privacy, and confidentiality, and identify implementation barriers, facilitators, contextual factors, scalability considerations, and evidence gaps. The review will follow Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) scoping review methodology and the Population–Concept–Context (PCC) framework. The expected outcome is a comprehensive map of the existing evidence, including the characteristics of digital health interventions, populations reached, reported outcomes, implementation factors, and gaps requiring further research.