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Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS
IAS recognizes the need to focus on integrated service delivery of key health priorities. In its 2010-2014 Strategic Plan, the IAS Governing Council affirms the need for engaging HIV programmes and research expertise with counterpart expertise in sexual reproductive health programming and research. Specifically, the IAS strategic plan states:
“IAS will advocate for timely revision of international normative guidance and standards for HIV prevention, treatment and care as new evidence emerges, including integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health.”
SRH/HIV at AIDS 2010
With funding from Packard Foundation, the International AIDS Society will: - Highlight the sexual and reproductive health needs of women and young girls living with and affected by HIV/AIDS during the International AIDS Conference in Vienna (AIDS2010) in July 2009.
This will include development of two 90-minute Satellite Symposia in collaboration with Packard grantees and International AIDS Society members. These will be:
- A Satellite examining evidence of effective models and contextual barriers for integrating SRH and HIV services.
- A Satellite on the research biomedical needs for sexual and reproductive health and HIV.
- Conduct outreach to ensure experts working in sexual and reproductive health to encourage them to submit relevant research to AIDS 2010. IAS will reach out to SRH networks to advise them in submitting abstracts and participating in the conference.
- Disseminate new learning and new evidence on HIV and SRH. The Satellites Symposia will be made available online via webcast and summaries of the sessions included in the AIDS2010 Conference Impact Report.
You can see here abstracts from AIDS 2008 and IAS 2009 relative to sexual reproductive health research.
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Research on SHR and HIV
The journal AIDS published a supplement on family planning and HIV in November. The supplement, which includes behavioral, biomedical and programmatic studies, expands the evidence base regarding how the family planning and HIV fields are related -- and how they can be better integrated in practice. A synthesis of the key findings published in the supplement may be useful to set the stage for the session on research needs. Additionally, some of the programmatic studies could make interesting contributions to the session on successful programme models. The link to the supplement's table of contents is here: journals.lww.com/aidsonline/
toc/2009/11001.
Description of Guttmacher Institute research project, “HIV Status and Achieving Fertility Desires”
 Summary research: “Progress on scaling up integrated services for sexual and reproductive health and HIV”, by Clare Dickinson, Kathy Attawell & Nel Druce
Resources on Strenghtening Linkages Between SRH and HIV
 The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) produced this publication "Happy, healthy and hot" – a guide to help young people living with HIV understand their rights, and live healthy, happy and sexually fulfilling lives.
 The Dutch network on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and HIV/AIDS, together with the Royal Tropical Institute, developed this tool and background paper to identify opportunities and barriers when integrating SRH and HIV/AIDS into Health Systems.
 FHI, USAID and WHO recently published "Strategic Considerations for Strengthening the Linkages between Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Policies, Programs, and Services", a document to help guide international public health programs integrate family planning and HIV services in a strategic and systematic manner.
 USAID - “SPOTLIGHT ON PREVENTION The Astonishing Neglect of an HIV-Prevention Strategy: The Value of Integrating Family Planning and HIV Services”
WHO - Strengthening linkages between SRH and HIV
International HIV/AIDS Alliance on SRH and HIV
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