Linking HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health programmes has the potential to significantly curtail the AIDS epidemic.
Furthermore, it also addresses the unmet need and rights of women and men living with HIV/AIDS to sexual and reproductive health services. Well over 75% of HIV infections are acquired sexually, or through transmission during pregnancy, labour, delivery, or breastfeeding.
The presence of sexually transmitted infections other than HIV increases the risk of HIV transmission. Aside from these obvious direct associations, many of the same root causes affecting sexual and reproductive health status also affect HIV/AIDS. Gender inequality, poverty, stigma and discrimination and marginalization of vulnerable groups affect and are affected by HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health status.
This annotated inventory contributes to strengthening linkages between HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health programmes by providing access to relevant programming tools for fostering such linkages, and pointing out gap areas where tools need to be developed.
It reviews tools that link HIV/AIDS with other programmes (sexual health, maternal health, family planning and STI management) and conversely, that link sexual and reproductive health with HIV/AIDS programmes (prevention, treatment, care and support).
The inventory is not intended to be exhaustive, and should be viewed as a ‘living document’ that will be updated as new tools become available.
The publications in the inventory have been selected based on a framework for key linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programmes consisting of four main domains:
Learn HIV status and access services
Promote safer and healthier sex
Optimize the connection between HIV/AIDS and STI services
Integrate HIV/AIDS with maternal and infant health
Cross-cutting issues concerning the creation of an enabling environment underpin the framework and include:
human rights
community involvement and participation
mechanisms to address structural determinants (e.g. gender equality, elimination of gender-based violence, access to services).
Linking HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health programmes has the potential to significantly curtail the AIDS epidemic. Furthermore, it also addresses the unmet need and rights of women and men living with HIV/AIDS to sexual and reproductive health services. Well over 75% of HIV infections are acquired sexually, or through transmission during pregnancy, labour, delivery, or breastfeeding.
The presence of sexually transmitted infections other than HIV increases the risk of HIV transmission. Aside from these obvious direct associations, many of the same root causes affecting sexual and reproductive health status also affect HIV/AIDS. Gender inequality, poverty, stigma and discrimination and marginalization of vulnerable groups affect and are affected by HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health status.
This annotated inventory contributes to strengthening linkages between HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health programmes by providing access to relevant programming tools for fostering such linkages, and pointing out gap areas where tools need to be developed.
It reviews tools that link HIV/AIDS with other programmes (sexual health, maternal health, family planning and STI management) and conversely, that link sexual and reproductive health with HIV/AIDS programmes (prevention, treatment, care and support).
The inventory is not intended to be exhaustive, and should be viewed as a ‘living document’ that will be updated as new tools become available.
The publications in the inventory have been selected based on a framework for key linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS programmes consisting of four main domains:
Learn HIV status and access services
Promote safer and healthier sex
Optimize the connection between HIV/AIDS and STI services
Integrate HIV/AIDS with maternal and infant health
Cross-cutting issues concerning the creation of an enabling environment underpin the framework and include:
human rights
community involvement and participation
mechanisms to address structural determinants (e.g. gender equality, elimination of gender-based violence, access to services).