Family Planning Choices for Women With HIV

CONTENTS

Home (Key Points)

Supporting the Reproductive Decisions of Women With HIV

Box: Family Planning Is a Key Strategy to Reduce Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

Box: When a Woman With HIV Decides About Pregnancy

Box: Helping Women Talk With Their Partners About Contraception and Safer Sex

Box: Information Communication Technology: Mobile Phones Keep Women With HIV in Contact With Care

Women With HIV Can Safely Use Most Contraceptive Methods

Box: Dual Protection Strategies Help Prevent Pregnancy and STIs

Women With HIV Need the Facts About Pregnancy

Box: What People With HIV Need to Know About Pregnancy and
Preventing Pregnancy

Bibliography

Credits

• INFO Report: “Women and HIV: Questions Answered”
• Web Tool: Assess Your Attitudes and Beliefs About People With HIV
• Box: What People With HIV Need to Know About Preventing Pregnancy

• Table 1: Comparing Contraceptive Methods for People with HIV
• Table 2: Drug Interactions: Combined Oral Contraceptives and Antiretroviral (ARV) Medications
• Web Box: Condoms at a Glance

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Credits

This report was prepared by Catherine Richey, MPH and Vidya Setty, MPH, MBA. Research assistance by Amanda Rider, MHS. Edited by Ward Rinehart. Additional support by Simran Grewal, MBBS, MPH and Seth Rosenblatt, MA, MPH. Design by Mark Beisser, Francine Mueller, Linda Sadler, and Rafael Avila. Production by Monica Jiménez.

The INFO Project appreciates the assistance of the following reviewers: Mary Ann Abeyta- Behnke, Jane T. Bertrand, Willard Cates Jr., Gloria Coe, Shanti Conly, Kathryn M. Curtis, Thérèse Delvaux, Sarah Johnson, Young Mi Kim, Ludo Lavreys, Shawn Malarcher, Charles Morrison, Glenn Post, Malcolm Potts, Heidi Reynolds, Chandrakant Ruparelia, Stephen Settimi, Tin Tin Sint, J. Joseph Speidel, Jeffrey Spieler, David Stanton, Elizabeth M. Stringer, Ushma Upadhyay, Peter Weis, Rose Wilcher, Irina Yacobson, and Isabelle de Zoysa.

Suggested citation: Richey, C. and Setty, V. “Family Planning Choices for Women With HIV. “ Population Reports, Series L, No. 15. Baltimore, INFO Project, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, August 2007.

Available online: http://www.populationreports.org/l15/ Also visit the Hot Topics Collections at: http://www.infoforhealth.org/collections/

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Population Reports is designed to provide an accurate and authoritative overview of important developments in family planning and related health issues. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or Johns Hopkins University.

Published with support from USAID, Global, GH/PRH/PEC, under the terms of Grant No. GPH-A-00-02-00003-00.