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Family Planning Choices for Women with HIV
Population Reports
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With access to family planning services, supportive care, and the information needed to make good choices, women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including women with acquired immune See More
With access to family planning services, supportive care, and the information needed to make good choices, women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including women with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), in many cases can lead healthy sexual and reproductive lives. Like all other women, women with HIV have the right to make their own decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. Health care programs and providers can help women with HIV and their partners make and carry out informed reproductive health decisions. Women with HIV who decide to prevent or delay pregnancy can safely use almost any family planning method. Preventing unintended pregnancies among women with HIV is an important and cost-effective way to avoid the birth of HIV-infected infants. For those who are considering having children, providers can help them weigh the risks and consider the responsibilities. For clients with HIV who want children now, providers can help them minimize the risk of transmitting the virus to their partners or to the infant. (excerpt) See Less
Published: 2007
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Focus On...Breastfeeding Decisions for Women with HIV
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This issue of Focus On... is intended to help health care practitioners better understand the current state of knowledge on breastfeeding and HIV transmission. It examines the most recent studies and See More
This issue of Focus On... is intended to help health care practitioners better understand the current state of knowledge on breastfeeding and HIV transmission. It examines the most recent studies and expert guidance on the topic and provides the key points from recent research trials, literature reviews, and program evaluation studies. For women with HIV, infant feeding decisions are shaped by their access to infant feeding counseling and antiretroviral treatment, on the social stigma surrounding people with HIV, exclusive breastfeeding, and exclusive replacement feeding, on access to clean and safe water and food supplements, and on partner and family support. A woman infected with HIV can pass HIV on to her infant during pregnancy, at the time of labor and delivery, and through breastfeeding. Without treatment, between 15% and 30% of infants born to mothers with HIV become infected with HIV during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. An additional 10% to 20% become infected during breastfeeding depending on how long the infant is breastfed. (excerpt) See Less
Published: 2007
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Integrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services for Young People: Tools for Programming
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Meeting the unmet health care needs of young people poses a continuing challenge for health systems worldwide, yet it is critical to containing the AIDS epidemic and reducing unintended pregnancies. See More
Meeting the unmet health care needs of young people poses a continuing challenge for health systems worldwide, yet it is critical to containing the AIDS epidemic and reducing unintended pregnancies. An integrated approach to the delivery of reproductive health care expands youth access to health care by making multiple services available at the same facility, during the same hours, and often from the same provider. Integrated services for young people address the two major risks associated with unprotected sex-that is, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS. In addition, some integrated programs address other issues, such as sexual abuse or maternal and child health care. This report highlights tools that managers can use to integrate reproductive health, family planning, and HIV/AIDS services for young people. The tools described here, and the examples that illustrate their use, are drawn from USAID and other donor-funded programs. The tools are designed to help programs: make integrated services youth-friendly-that is, increase their ability to attract and retain young clients, train providers on how to offer integrated services to young people, develop job aids that help providers offer a wider range of services, and raise awareness of and gain community support for integrated services for young people. (excerpt) See Less
Published: 2007
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Women and HIV: Questions Answered
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This tool offers family planning and HIV care providers a quick reference to answer common questions about HIV that women and their partners have. Specifically, it provides information on some basic See More
This tool offers family planning and HIV care providers a quick reference to answer common questions about HIV that women and their partners have. Specifically, it provides information on some basic facts of HIV acquisition, on family planning use for women with HIV, on the health of pregnant women with HIV and their infants, and on mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Information is presented in a simple question and answer format. (excerpt) See Less
Published: 2007
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Focus On...Integrating Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Services
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This first issue of Focus on... presents information about the benefits and challenges of linking HIV/AIDS services and family planning and related reproductive health care. To highlight the major See More
This first issue of Focus on... presents information about the benefits and challenges of linking HIV/AIDS services and family planning and related reproductive health care. To highlight the major issues of integration (also called linkages), Focus on... summarizes key points from selected resources--most from the past 3 years--that reflect field successes, lessons learned, and further avenues for research. There are strong arguments for family planning and HIV/AIDS integration on both sides. Potentially, family planning services offer a path to extend HIV prevention efforts and to see that family planning decisions consider STI prevention. At the same time, people living with HIV have continuing needs for help with family planning--both in making decisions about their fertility and to obtain services and supplies. While proponents of family planning and HIV/AIDS integration cite benefits, the reality of implementation has involved a number of challenges: limited evidence to document benefits, stigma, bias of providers, families, and communities potentially interfering with fertility choices of HIV-positive men and women, lack of integrated funding streams to facilitate joint services, concerns about health care capacity, among others. This digest of integration resources, while covering only some of the issues, is designed to provide the reader with practical information for planning and implementing improved public health programs. (excerpt) See Less
Published: 2006
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Microbicides: New Potential for Protection
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Microbicides are substances that are designed, when applied vaginally, to reduce transmission of HIV or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This report concerns the protective potential of See More
Microbicides are substances that are designed, when applied vaginally, to reduce transmission of HIV or other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This report concerns the protective potential of microbicides, some of which are under development to also function as spermicides to provide contraceptive protection. See Less
Published: 2005
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HIV Positive Voices
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This is a video about HIV/AIDS in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The beginning of the video shows images of Baltimore's Inner Harbor as well as other parts of the city. The accompanying narration See More
This is a video about HIV/AIDS in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. The beginning of the video shows images of Baltimore's Inner Harbor as well as other parts of the city. The accompanying narration talks about the relatively high rate of HIV/AIDS prevalence in Baltimore: more than 1,000 new cases of HIV are reported each year with an estimated infection rate of one person every 8 hours. A new prevention strategy of the Maryland AIDS Administration's Red Ribbon Question Mark Campaign is to recruit people living with HIV/AIDS in Baltimore to share their experiences. This video illustrates the AIDS epidemic in human terms through the real stories of four people. Each story has personal testimonies and interviews and represents a major segment or mode of transmission that fuels the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Baltimore. "Rickeena's Story": Rickeena contracted HIV through mother to child transmission. Her mother unknowingly contracted an passed the virus to her from her father who was an "in the closet" intravenous (IV) drug user; "David's Story": David had been sent to prison a number of times for various crimes and was an IV drug user. He found out he had AIDS while in prison; "Kimberly's Story": Kimberly had unprotected sex with an IV drug user while in college and discovered she was infected with HIV after attempting to donate blood to the Red Cross; "Keith's Story": Keith was raped by an uncle. In high school, Keith experimented with drugs and sex. After finding out he was HIV positive he continued to have unprotected sex and shared needles for drug use. He supported his drug habit by working as in male prostitute in a section of Baltimore popular known as "the meat rack". See Less
Published: 2003
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Youth and HIV/AIDS: Can We Avoid Catastrophe?
Population Reports
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Today's young people are the AIDS generation. They have never known a world without HIV. Millions already have died. Yet the HIV/AIDS epidemic among youth remains largely invisible to adults and to See More
Today's young people are the AIDS generation. They have never known a world without HIV. Millions already have died. Yet the HIV/AIDS epidemic among youth remains largely invisible to adults and to young people themselves. Stopping HIV/AIDS requires comprehensive strategies that focus on youth. Of the over 60 million people who have been infected with HIV in the past 20 years, about half became infected between the ages of 15 and 24. Today, nearly 12 million young people are living with HIV/AIDS. Young women are several times more likely than young men to be infected with HIV. In nearly 20 African countries 5% or more of women ages 15 to 24 are infected. Such statistics underscore the urgent need to address HIV/AIDS among youth. (excerpt) See Less
Published: 2001
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Controlling Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) can cause lifelong pain, infertility, life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, blindness in newborns, and death. In addition, HIV infections are transmitted more See More
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) can cause lifelong pain, infertility, life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, blindness in newborns, and death. In addition, HIV infections are transmitted more easily in the presence of STDs. This report discusses the extent, diagnosis, treatment, management, and prevention of STDs. A graph shows new cases of trichomoniasis, genital chlamydia, genital papillomavirus, gonorrhea, genital herpes, syphilis, chancroid, and HIV infections worldwide in 1990. For each disease and pathogen, the first symptoms in women and men, the incubation period, the natural history, and transmissibility are tabulated. The link between STDs and AIDS is highlighted, and ways to reduce the toll of STDs are presented, including making effective services accessible, getting affected people to treatment, and encouraging people to avoid STDs. Effective management of STDs is linked to obtaining information; performing a physical examination; and diagnosing, treating, and counseling patients. Examples of successful STD programs from 1970 to 1992 in Zambia, Sweden, the US, Kenya, the Dominican Republic, and Thailand are given. The syndromic approach to diagnosis and treatment is presented, along with its important benefits (avoiding misdiagnosis, ease to use, provision of treatment in one patient visit) and disadvantages (failure to provide care for asymptomatic patients, especially women, and wasting drugs). A detachable page with diagnostic and treatment tips is provided to accompany the wall chart guide to the syndromic approach to STDs published with this report. Ways to improve care for women are centered around providing services, and enabling women to protect themselves. A general discussion of getting services to the people focuses on the structure of STD services, the provision of appropriate treatment on the part of public and private providers, and the steady supply of the appropriate drugs purchased at low prices. The advantages and drawbacks of combining family planning services with STDs services are presented along with a discussion on contraceptives and STDs. The topic of getting people to services is considered with an emphasis on communication, screening, and partner notification. A list is given of resource materials on STDs as is a description of the STD Diagnostics Initiative founded in 1990 to develop quick, inexpensive tests. Programs are described which provide outreach to high-risk populations. The report concludes with a discussion of promoting prevention through the use of condoms and the practice of monogamy. See Less
Published: 1993
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