Table 2 Table of excluded studies

Not all participants are HIV positive

3 studies [34,35,36]

Intervention studied was not home-based care

5 studies [37,38,39,40,41]

Intervention was not provided by qualified nurses

15 studies [42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56]

Comparison of two models of home-based care

2 studies [57, 58]

Study investigating home-based voluntary HIV counselling and testing

12 studies [59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70]

Not a randomised controlled trial

12 studies [71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82]

Trial terminated for non-compliance with human subject regulations

1 study [83]