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Family-friendly interventions are needed for women and couples who use drugs so that women are not forced to choose between harm reduction programs and caring for their families.
Women Who Use Drugs and Female Partners of Men Who Use Drugs
1 study
Efforts are needed to capitalize on opportunities to integrate family planning and HIV services. [See %{c:15}]
Preventing Unintended Pregnancies
1 study
Further efforts are needed to educate families about HIV transmission so that infants are not abandoned. [See also %{s:73}] A study found that families forced HIV-positive women to abandon their infants due to erroneous fears that the infants could transmit HIV.
Postpartum
1 study
Programs are needed to change family gender norms to give brothers and sisters equal access to household resources and pocket money, to reduce the need for transactional sex.
Mitigating Risk
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
Interventions are needed to support women living with HIV to reduce infant abandonment. Studies found that families forced women living with HIV to abandon their infants; some due to erroneous fears that the infant could transmit HIV.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
1 study
Interventions are needed to reduce homophobia, which may lead MSM to have partnerships with women. Studies found that homosexuality was heavily stigmatized and that gender norms pressured MSM to marry and have families.
Partner Reduction
1 study
Policies that demonstrate prejudice to women living with HIV—such as those that initiate family planning only on the first day of a woman’s menstrual cycle and women with HIV are more likely to have amenorrhea—must be changed.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
1 study
Interventions are needed to support women living with HIV to disclose their serostatus to their children and families. Studies found that HIV-positive women found it extremely difficult to disclose their serostatus to their children and to their families and wanted specific counseling to address this need. A study also found that women wanted support on how to talk to their children about the loss of a sibling from AIDS.
Women and Girls
1 study
Increased financial and other support is needed for adults, especially grandparents, caring for orphans, including those who are HIV-positive. Studies found families caring for orphans lacked adequate food and nutrition and reported financial difficulties in meeting basic needs.
Orphans and Vulnerable Children
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
Increased efforts are needed to reduce stigma against adolescents living with HIV, particularly young key populations. A study found that adolescents living with HIV kept silent about their HIV status to schools, friends and family so as to not experience stigma and discrimination.
Increasing Access to Services
1 study
Policy guidelines, including service delivery guidelines, need to specify how contraception should be addressed in HIV prevention, treatment and care. Studies found that many guidelines did not explicitly address family planning in VCT and PMTCT guidelines and that providers and policymakers felt they had insufficient knowledge.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
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
Further interventions are needed to reduce stigma and discrimination against women, specifically, who are at high risk or living with HIV. [See also %{s:45}] Studies found that women and girls are highly stigmatized if they test positive for HIV. Stigma impacts the HIV-positive woman, herself, as well as her children, her siblings and her family. Some providers also discriminate against those living with HIV.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination
1 study
Interventions are needed to meet the contraceptive needs of different groups of women who are living with HIV, such as sex workers, migrants, young women, etc. A recent review of studies using experimental or quasi-experimental design to attribute program exposure to observed changes in fertility or family planning outcomes at the individual or population level, with 63 studies from 1995 to 2008, found that studies did not assess the differential impact of interventions across target audiences.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
1 study
Interventions are needed to support the autonomous decision-making of HIV-positive women who are caught between the contradictory pressures of family, community and health care providers. Studies found that HIV-positive women and men need information and social support to make decisions that reflect their own preferences in the face of pressure to bear children. A review of the published literature from 1990 to 2008 found that the refusal of health workers to discuss reproductive options in a non-biased way negatively impacts HIV-positive women. Studies also found that HIV-positive men lacked information on pre-conception and felt they could not request this information from health providers.
Pre-Conception
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 also %{c:15}] Studies found that women were not given contraceptive counseling or contraceptives postpartum and that transport costs restricted their ability to gain access to their contraceptive method of choice. Studies also found an unmet need for postpartum contraception among women living with HIV. Studies found that sexuality and condom use need to be addressed when sexual activity resumes postpartum. Family planning services are most often not provided postpartum in PMTCT programs. Providers and women did not know that clinically well HIV-positive women can use IUDs. Women lacked the full range of available contraception. No study to date has measured pregnancy intention prospectively in an HIV-discordant couple cohort and measured the effect of desired pregnancy on HIV transmission.
Postpartum
1 study