The INFO Project Blog

Experimenting with the Clusty.com search features (it searches blogs, wikipedia, and images as well as the Web) I stumbled upon an NPR broadcast on pending PEPFAR legislation in Congress.

A global health aid package worth tens of billions of dollars is being debated in the House of Representatives this week. Among the items under consideration is whether to integrate money for family planning into AIDS prevention efforts.

NPR’s Brenda Wilson reports that the proposal to integrate reproductive health services such as family planning into HIV prevention efforts is sometimes controversial with faith-based aid organizations such as the Catholic Relief Services.

Studies have shown that integrating these kind of services with HIV prevention and treatment takes careful strategy and execution. Intregration can save money and it can save lives, for example, by averting missed opportunities to counsel women about family planning.

The INFO Project culls the latest resources on integrating sexual and reproductive health services with HIV and puts everything online here. Stay tuned for the quarterly newsletter, with the latest on male circumcision, female-controlled FP methods such as microbicides, and other hot topics.