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HIV/AIDS: sexual and reproductive health, family planning

Canada

• BMC Women's Health
  • Patterns of changing pregnancy intentions among women living with HIV in Canada [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • High prevalence of abnormal menstruation among women living with HIV in Canada [2019]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • Canadian HIV Pregnancy Planning Guidelines [2018]

• Women's Health
  • Prevalence and correlates of sexual concerns and associated distress among women living with HIV in Canada [2022]
  • Key recommendations for developing a national action plan to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV in Canada [2022]

Denmark

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Sexually transmitted infections and use of contraceptives in women living with HIV in Denmark – the SHADE cohort [2016]

Developed countries

• Reproductive Health
  • Motherhood and decision-making among women living with HIV in developed countries: a systematic review with qualitative research synthesis [2021]

Eastern and Southern Africa

• World Health Organization
  • Evidence Brief: The importance of sexual and reproductive health and rights to prevent HIV in adolescent girls and young women in eastern and southern Africa [2017]

Ethiopia

• BioMed Research International
  • The Level of Unmet Need for Family Planning and Its Predictors among HIV-Positive Women in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]

• Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
  • Women living with HIV and dual contraceptive use in Ethiopia: systematic review and meta-analysis [2022]

• Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Dual Contraceptive Use and Factor Associated with People Living with HIV/AIDS: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis [2021]

• PLoS ONE
  • Unmet need for family planning among reproductive-age women living with HIV in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2021]

Europe

• HIV Medicine
  • Medically assisted reproduction for people living with HIV in Europe: A cross-country exploratory policy comparison [2022]

Finland

• BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • Induced abortions of women living with HIV in Finland 1987-2019: a national register study [2023]

International

• AIDS
  • Assessing the effect of hormonal contraception on HIV acquisition in observational data: challenges and recommended analytic approaches [2013]

• AIDS and Behavior
  • Consensus statement: Supporting Safer Conception and Pregnancy For Men And Women Living with and Affected by HIV [2018]

• AIDS Care
  • Using GRADE as a framework to guide research on the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of women living with HIV – methodological opportunities and challenges [2017]

• BMC Public Health
  • The role of contraception in preventing HIV-positive births: global estimates and projections [2021]

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • From Research to Policy: The WHO Experience With Developing Guidelines on the Potential Risk of HIV Acquisition and Progestogen-Only Contraception Use [2017]

• Health Policy and Planning
  • Health systems and the SDGs: lessons from a joint HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights response [2017]

• International Planned Parenthood Federation
  • IPPF Comprehensive HIV Services Package [2020]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Concomitant contraceptive implant and efavirenz use in women living with HIV: perspectives on current evidence and policy implications for family planning and HIV treatment guidelines [2017]
  • Advancing the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women living with HIV: a review of UN, regional and national human rights norms and standards [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of sexual and reproductive health services during humanitarian crises: A systematic review [2018]

• Reproductive Health
  • Integration of HIV testing services into family planning services: a systematic review [2019]

• UNAIDS
  • Actions for improved clinical and prevention services and choices: Preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections among women and girls using contraceptive services in contexts with high HIV incidence [2020]

Kenya

• Contraception
  • Higher contraceptive uptake in HIV treatment centers offering integrated family planning services: A national survey in Kenya [2020]

Malawi

• Global Health: Science and Practice
  • Provider-Initiated Family Planning Within HIV Services in Malawi: Did Policy Make It into Practice? [2019]

• Malawi Medical Journal
  • Reproductive decisions of couples living with HIV in Malawi: What can we learn for future policy and research studies? [2013]

South Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • The HIV epidemic and sexual and reproductive health policy integration: views of South African policymakers [2015]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Supporting HIV prevention and reproductive goals in an HIV-endemic setting: taking safer conception services from policy to practice in South Africa [2017]

• Population Health Metrics
  • Social patterns and differentials in the fertility transition in the context of HIV/AIDS: evidence from population surveillance, rural South Africa, 1993 – 2013 [2016]

• South African Medical Journal
  • Changes to the World Health Organization guideline on hormonal contraceptive eligibility for women at high risk of HIV: South African perspective and response [2018]

• Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine
  • Guidelines to support HIV-affected individuals and couples to achieve pregnancy safely: Update 2018 [2018]

Southern Africa

• BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
  • Provision of long-acting reversible contraception in HIV-prevalent countries: results from nationally representative surveys in southern Africa [2013]

• Contraception
  • Clinicians’ perceptions and provision of hormonal contraceptives for HIV positive and at-risk women in Southern Africa: an original research article [2014]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• AIDS and Behavior
  • A Systematic Review of the Current Status of Safer Conception Strategies for HIV Affected Heterosexual Couples in Sub-Saharan Africa [2018]

• Annals of Medicine
  • Integration of family planning into HIV services: a systematic review [2022]

• Global Health Action
  • Interventions targeting sexual and reproductive health and rights outcomes of young people living with HIV: a comprehensive review of current interventions from sub-Saharan Africa [2015]

• Nursing Open
  • Factors associated with pregnancy uptake decisions among seropositive HIV people receiving antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review [2022]

• PLoS ONE
  • Measuring the Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy Roll-Out on Population Level Fertility in Three African Countries [2016]
  • Contraceptive Use and Uptake of HIV-Testing among Sub-Saharan African Women [2016]

• Reproductive Health
  • Effective integration of sexual reproductive health and HIV prevention, treatment, and care services across sub-Saharan Africa: where is the evidence for program implementation? [2019]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Impact of ART on the fertility of HIV-positive women in sub-Saharan Africa [2016]

Switzerland

• HIV Medicine
  • Decrease of condom use in heterosexual couples and its impact on pregnancy rates: the Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS) [2022]
  • Neglect of attention to reproductive health in women with HIV infection: contraceptive use and unintended pregnancies in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study [2018]

Tanzania

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Determinants of facility readiness for integration of family planning with HIV testing and counseling services: evidence from the Tanzania service provision assessment survey, 2014–2015 [2017]

Uganda

• BioMed Research International
  • “I Always Worry about What Might Happen Ahead”: Implementing Safer Conception Services in the Current Environment of Reproductive Counseling for HIV-Affected Men and Women in Uganda [2016]

• Health Care for Women International
  • “Our hands are tied up”: Current state of safer conception services suggests the need for an integrated care model [2014]

United Kingdom

• Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare
  • FSRH CEU Guidance: Drug Interactions Between HIV Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) and Contraception [2023]

• Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
  • Sexual and reproductive health and HIV: applying All Our Health

• Public Health England
  • Sexual health, reproductive health and HIV services: evaluation resources
  • Sexual and reproductive health and HIV: strategic action plan
  • Pharmacy offer for sexual health, reproductive health and HIV

• Scottish Government
  • Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework 2015-2020 Update [2015]

United States

• AIDS Patient Care and STDs
  • The Reproductive Health Behaviors of HIV-Infected Young Women in the United States: A Literature Review [2013]

• American Society for Reproductive Medicine
  • Human immunodeficiency virus and infertility treatment: an Ethics Committee opinion [2021]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Update to U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2016: Updated Recommendations for the Use of Contraception Among Women at High Risk for HIV Infection [2020]
  • Update to CDC’s U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2016: Revised Recommendations for the Use of Hormonal Contraception Among Women at High Risk for HIV Infection [2017]
  • Strategies for Preventing HIV Infection Among HIV-Uninfected Women Attempting Conception with HIV-Infected Men — United States [2017]
  • Effects of Antiretroviral Therapy to Prevent HIV Transmission to Women in Couples Attempting Conception When the Man Has HIV Infection — United States, 2017 [2017]
  • Update to CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2010: Revised Recommendations for the Use of Hormonal Contraception Among Women at High Risk for HIV Infection or Infected with HIV [2012]

WHO

• World Health Organization
  • Integration of HIV testing and linkage in family planning and contraception services: implementation brief [2021]
  • Family Planning for Adolescents and Women at High Risk for HIV [2021]
  • Translating community research into global policy reform for national action: a checklist for community engagement to implement the WHO consolidated guideline on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV [2019]
  • Providing contraceptive services in the context of HIV treatment programmes [2019]
  • Hormonal contraceptive methods and HIV acquisition in women [2019]
  • Contraceptive eligibility for women at high risk of HIV [2019]
  • Consolidated guideline on sexual and reproductive health and rights of women living with HIV [2017]
  • A tool for strengthening gender-sensitive national HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) monitoring and evaluation systems [2016]
  • Hormonal contraceptive methods for women at high risk of HIV and living with HIV [2014]
  • Reproductive choices and family planning for people living with HIV [2012]
  • Programmatic and research considerations for hormonal contraception for women at risk of HIV and women living with HIV [2012]
  • Hormonal contraception and HIV: technical statement [2012]
  • Statement on the Heffron et al study on the safety of using hormonal contraceptives for women at risk of HIV infection: October 2011 [2011]
  • Making the case for interventions linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV in proposals to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria [2010]
  • Sexual and reproductive health and HIV: linkages : evidence review and recommendations [2009]
  • Rapid assessment tool for sexual and reproductive health and HIV linkages : a generic guide [2009]
  • Sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV/AIDS : guidelines on care, treatment and support for women living with HIV/AIDS and their children in resource-constrained settings [2006]
  • Glion consultation on strengthening the linkages between reproductive health and HIV/AIDS: family planning and HIV/AIDS in women and children [2006]
  • Sexual and reproductive health & HIV/AIDS - A framework for priority linkages [2005]
  • Sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV linkages toolkit
  • Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SHRH) and HIV
  • SRHR & HIV Linkages Index

Zimbabwe

• BMC Health Services Research
  • Estimated costs for the delivery of safer conception strategies for HIV-discordant couples in Zimbabwe: a cost analysis [2020]

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