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Additional programming, including access to antiretroviral therapy, is needed to reduce sexual transmission within stable heterosexual serodiscordant couples. Despite the majority of infections in some countries attributable to HIV transmissions between stable heterosexual serodiscordant couples, little programming had been directed toward this population.
Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Women Living With HIV
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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 – for their own health and that of their future children. [See also %{s:39}] Studies found that both providers and HIV serodiscordant couples were misinformed as to what factors increase the likelihood of HIV transmission.
Staying Healthy and Reducing Transmission
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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
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Studies found that counselors and serodiscordant couples did not understand that the HIV-negative partner could acquire HIV, even after many years and HIV-positive women reported that their husbands refused to use condoms. Fear of partner reaction was a barrier to HIV testing.
Male and Female Condom Use
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Programs are needed to reduce violence against women who test HIV-positive and/or are already living with HIV. A study found that HIV-positive women report that they were subjected to violence upon disclosure of their serostatus. Women living with HIV continue to experience violence (Hale and Vazquez, 2011). A study of serodiscordant couples found that intimate partner violence was more frequent in those who were HIV positive (2.7% as compared to 2.2%). Those women who suffered from violence prior to couples testing continued to experience violence (Were et al., 2011).
Addressing Violence Against Women
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Additional evidence- and rights-based interventions are needed for couples counseling in sero-discordant relationships; counseling that clearly explains serodiscordance and can identify women at risk of violence and make appropriate links to other services. While WHO issued recommendations on couples testing and counseling (WHO, 2012g), more evidence-based interventions are needed for counseling for couples in sero-discordant relationships. These interventions may need to differ by sex, as in one study, women living with HIV were likely to report an HIV-negative or unknown serostatus partner and men living with HIV were more likely to report multiple sexual partners.
Staying Healthy and Reducing Transmission
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