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Efforts are needed to effectively implement Option B+ in non-prejudicial ways. Women who were sex workers reported being denied care until delivery. Women who were not accompanied by husbands were denied any health services during pregnancy. A sign on health centers read: “Notice: all pregnant women are supposed to come with their husbands/partners at their first visit. You will not be given services without implementing this” (Beckham et al., 2015: 66).
Antenatal Care - Treatment
1 study
Improvements are needed in health services, such as increased or flexible clinic hours, to reduce wait times and to encourage ART initiation. Interviews with people living with HIV eligible for ART who refused ART found that "the problem is…services….The process is so long" (Musheke et al., 2013a: 236). In addition, waiting to access ART jeopardizes livelihoods. Information systems that can track patients across sites can assist in tracking patients who need care.
Provision and Access
1 study
Increased efforts are needed to address the needs of adolescents living with HIV who are pregnant and to create linkages between HIV centers and maternal health clinics. A study showed that use of maternal health services to prevent vertical transmission was lower than the proportion who attended prenatal care. In this study, less than half of pregnant adolescents attended four antenatal care visits. In addition, use of skilled attendance during or after abortion or miscarriage was low.[See also %{c:17} and %{c:25}]
Increasing Access to Services
1 study
Changing laws and policies, ending police violence, and other mechanisms are needed to protect sex workers from violence and rape. Studies found sex workers experienced high rates of violence and rape from clients and police, and that fear of arrest was a barrier to accessing health services. Studies also found that violence was associated with inconsistent condom use and HIV incidence. Studies also found high rates of violence from intimate partners and clients, but inability to press charges.
Female Sex Workers
1 study
Actions are needed to increase young people’s knowledge of when and where to access health services, including access to contraception and condoms. A UNESCO review found that young people lacked knowledge of where to access health services to meet their needs. Adolescents in numerous countries are sexually active, yet have low rates of contraceptive use. Adolescents need accurate detailed information about the level of risk of different sex acts (oral, genital and anal). Studies found that youth aged 15 to 24 were at high risk of either acquiring HIV or testing HIV-positive, yet less likely to report having been tested for HIV. Increased knowledge that HIV-positive infants can survive to adolescence is also needed so that these young people can get tested for HIV and access services. In some countries, HIV prevalence among both female and male adolescents who tested for HIV was as high as 16%. [See also Meeting the %{s:35}]
Increasing Access to Services
1 study
Infection control of TB within health care settings can reduce the incidence of TB among health care workers, particularly nurses.
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study Gray IIIa TB, health facilities Brazil
Health care settings must address the needs of transgendered people and reduce barriers to services. [See %{s:19}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Integrating legal services into health care can help ensure that women retain their property. [See %{s:61}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Health care settings need to offer appropriate, non-discriminatory services—and be attentive to HIV risk behaviors—to meet the sexual and reproductive health needs of WSW. [See %{s:21}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Integrating CD4 count service with VCT or primary health clinics can increase access to CD4 measurement, hastening initiation of treatment. [See %{s:29}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Improved record keeping on HIV counseling, serostatus, and treatment is needed to improve referrals and linkages with other health care services. [See %{s:43}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Establishing comprehensive post-rape care protocols, which include PEP, can improve services for women. [See %{s:59}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Efforts are needed to reform laws that criminalize drug use and/or drug possession for personal use and to eliminate compulsory drug detention and instead, provide people who use drugs with access to HIV and health services, including harm reduction, and voluntary, effective evidence-based drug dependency treatment. Detention centers are administered by police, military or other national government public security authorities and operate outside the formal criminal justice system with detainees held without trial or right of appeal; those detained are not allowed to leave voluntarily (Wolfe, 2012). Studies found that female IDU were not given reproductive health services, including PMTCT services in compulsory detention and/or prison settings. Detoxification programs were substandard and ineffective. Despite high rates of HIV, antiretroviral treatment is largely unavailable in compulsory drug detention centers. IDUs who have started antiretroviral treatment should be able to continue treatment in prison with access to medical supervision. [See also %{s:11}]
Advancing Human Rights and Access to Justice for Women and Girls
1 study
Early postpartum visits, especially with on-site contraceptive services, can result in increased condom use, contraceptive use, HIV testing and treatment. [See %{s:49}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Policy guidelines, including service delivery guidelines, need to specify how contraception should be addressed in HIV prevention, treatment and care. [See %{c:15}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Conducting HIV testing and counseling for women who bring their children for immunization can increase the number of women accessing testing and treatment services. [See above and %{s:49}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Screening for and treating STIs syndromatically on a continuous, accessible basis improves overall health, and has been associated with reducing the risks of HIV acquisition in a setting with high STI prevalence. [See %{s:7}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Additional efforts are needed to reduce the risk of TB transmission in high risk, low resource settings. Studies found that significant TB transmission occurs in health care settings, particularly among nurses.
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Clinic-based interventions with outreach workers can be effective in increasing condom use and HIV testing among sex workers. [See %{s:9}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Interventions are needed to scale up CD4 count screening, especially for pregnant women. [See %{s:49}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study