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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
Providers and those living with HIV need accurate information on how HIV is transmitted and how most effectively to reduce the likelihood of transmission among serodiscordant couples or between those who do not know their sero-status, including those who wish to become pregnant. [See %{s:33}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Providers need training on meeting the contraceptive needs of women and couples with HIV, including providing non-directive, informed choice counseling and reducing stigma and discrimination for women living with HIV. [See %{c:15}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Interventions are needed to screen and treat both male and female sexual partners for STIs. [See %{s:7}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Programs for male circumcision need to provide women, as well as men, with detailed factual knowledge of the benefits and risks of voluntary medical male circumcision. [See %{s:5}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Health care providers must have access to gowns, gloves, needle-less systems and eye protection to decrease the risk of occupational exposure to HIV. [See also %{s:47}] Studies noted that gowns, gloves and eye protection should be used in all deliveries and in examinations or procedures likely to generate the splashing of blood or amniotic fluid.
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Efforts are needed to ensure that providing family-focused HIV care within maternal and child health programs doesn’t discourage men from seeking HIV services. A study found that men were excluded from PMTCT programs.
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Additional efforts are needed to provide postpartum women with contraception information and methods so they may space or prevent their next pregnancy and use condoms to reduce the likelihood of HIV transmission upon resumption of sexual activity. [See %{s:49} and %{c:15}]
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
A combination of infection control strategies may significantly reduce the rate of TB transmission, including drug-resistant TB, in high-risk, low-resourced health care settings. A mathematical model was created to simulate TB transmission in high TB/HIV prevalent settings. The model showed that masks alone would prevent 10% of new transmission in an overall epidemic, but could prevent a large proportion of XDR-TB cases among hospital staff. The combination of mask and reduced hospitalization with a shift to outpatient treatment could prevent nearly one-third of XDR-TB cases. Approximately 48% of XDR-TB cases could be averted by the end of 2012, if a combination of mask, reduced hospitalization with shift to outpatient treatment, improved ventilation, rapid drug resistance testing, HIV treatment and TB isolation facilities for highly infectious patients were implemented.
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Ongoing efforts are needed for safe needle disposal. Studies found that used sharp needles were observed inside and outside facilities and that neither adequate disposal methods nor separation of medical waste from domestic waster occurred in health facilities.
Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs
1 study
Efforts are needed to eliminate compulsory drug detention and instead, provide PWID with HIV prevention and testing services and effective drug dependency treatment by medical professionals. Detention centers are administered by police, military or other national government public security authorities and operate outside the form criminal justice system with detainees held without trial or right of appeal and those detained do not allow people to leave voluntarily (Wolfe, 2012). Studies found that women who use drugs 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. One study found high rates of injecting drug use within prison and high rates of syringe sharing within prisons plus incarceration was not associated with reduction in drug use, with over a quarter of these female drug users. PWID in and out of prison who have started antiretroviral treatment should be able to continue treatment with access to medical supervision. Treatment in compulsory drug detention takes the form of sanction rather than therapy, with high relapse rates.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Women living with HIV need access to information and services to address infertility.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
1 study
Adolescents living with HIV need information and treatment services through adolescent-friendly HIV and family planning services. [See also %{s:25}]
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
1 study
Women living with HIV need information and access to services for emergency contraception and post-abortion care (PAC) services. Studies found that women did not have adequate knowledge of emergency contraception, nor access to services for post-abortion care.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
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. Studies found that a number of WSW also have sexual relationships with men yet did not get tested for HIV.
Women Who Have Sex With Women (WSW)
1 study
Health care settings must address the needs of transgender people and reduce barriers to services. One study found that transgender women reported stigma, discrimination and violations of confidentiality by providers.
Transgender Women and Men
1 study
Improved record keeping on HIV counseling, serostatus, and treatment is needed to improve referrals and linkages with other health care services. A study found that record keeping of HIV staging and CD4 counts was inadequate.
Antenatal Care - Testing and Counseling
1 study
Efforts are needed to capitalize on opportunities to integrate family planning and HIV services. Studies found that both men and women wanted greater integration of services and also found high rates of unintended pregnancies among HIV-positive women. In one study, VCT clients report infrequent reproductive health counseling.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
1 study
Services to provide sex workers with access to antiretroviral therapy in the same clinics that provide them with condoms, contraceptives, HIV testing and STI services are needed. A study found that sex workers, particularly HIV positive sex workers, wanted integrated comprehensive care to meet all their needs if they tested positive for HIV.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
1 study
Interventions are needed to ensure that stigma from health care workers does not discourage HIV-positive women from giving birth in safer settings. [See also %{s:67}] Studies found that HIV-positive women experienced discrimination by providers in ANC services or did not attend ANC services due to fear of mistreatment by health providers.
Delivery
1 study