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Increased support is needed for HIV serostatus disclosure, particularly at key times such as delivery, infant weaning, and at the resumption of sexual activity. Studies found that disclosure to partners was low and women reported needing additional support to disclose.
Antenatal Care - Testing and Counseling
1 study
HIV prevention interventions are needed for methamphetamine, crack, midazolam and/or heroin. People who use various drugs are at high risk of acquiring HIV and amphetamine is often used to enhance and prolong sexual pleasure and to reduce sexual inhibitions. High rates of HIV were found in a group of female crack users and sex workers using amphetamines. There is no effective pharmacotherapy, such as methadone, for cocaine or methamphetamine.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
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Additional strategies are needed to address the cultural, gender and other contextual barriers that influence the behavior or decisions of people living with HIV to engage in unsafe sex. [See also %{c:21}] Studies found that factors such as difficulties negotiating condoms, partner refusal, high unemployment, alcohol use, financial dependency, expectations of childbearing, fear of disclosure, etc., influenced protective behavior.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
1 study
Programs must continue to promote protective behavior such as condom use in addition to male circumcision. Studies found that male circumcision is only partially effective, making protective behavior such as partner reduction and condom use, in addition to circumcision, essential. Men who have been circumcised can still transmit HIV to women if they are HIV-positive. Until healing is complete following circumcision, men are more likely to transmit HIV. A post hoc analysis found the HIV-1 acquisition rate among partners of men who remained uncircumcised was 7.9% during the first 6 months after enrollment compared with 27.8% for partners of men who were circumcised and then resumed sexual activity prior to documented healing of the surgical wound, a substantially increased risk.
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
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. Surveys found that women lacked detailed factual knowledge of the benefits and risks of voluntary medical male circumcision and believed that if their male partner was circumcised (whether medically or traditionally) that condom use was unnecessary to protect them from acquiring HIV. Both women and men needed knowledge that abstinence is necessary during wound-healing. Women also need to know that female genital cutting does NOT protect against HIV acquisition or transmission. Women reported that circumcised men adopted risky sexual behaviors. Women feared that medical male circumcision would reduce their ability to negotiate for safer sex and would increase violence. A study of women who acquired HIV found that a large proportion of women reported not knowing whether their partner was circumcised.
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
1 study