Integrating Family Planning/Reproductive Health and HIV Services

Offering multiple health care services through a program can benefit clients, providers and programs. For example, integrating services can address a wider range of health needs conveniently for clients. It also can be more efficient for programs and so can serve more people for the same expenditures. Services commonly integrated with HIV care and prevention include family planning; and maternal, newborn, and child health care. Some key resources for integrating family planning and reproductive health services with HIV services, to better address PMTCT, are provided in this section of the toolkit. For a more comprehensive selection of resources related to integrating family planning and reproductive health services with HIV services go to K4Health's Family Planning and HIV Services Integration Toolkit.

HIV/AIDS & Sexual and Reproductive Health Integration

no date | Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

HIV/AIDS & Sexual and Reproductive Health Integration

This resource is designed to help you in your efforts to integrate provision of sexual and reproductive health services with activities for preventing and treating HIV/AIDS. Here you will find a selected collection of documents and other materials which reflect field experience and the latest thinking of the health community on integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services.

2010 | FHI | 1 p

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This 1-page brief outlines 10 elements as critical steps in successfully integrating HIV and family planning services.

2009 | EngenderHealth, ACQUIRE Project | 261 p

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As HIV prevention, care, and treatment services increase people's access to antiretroviral therapy (ART), many more persons living with HIV (PLHIV) are living longer, higher quality lives. As a result, the unmet need for family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) services among people living with HIV is growing, yet until recently, these needs have largely been overlooked.

2009 | UNFPA | 88 p

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This adaptable tool can be used to assess linkages betweeen HIV and sexual and reproductive health at the policy, systems and service-delivery levels. It is intended also to identify gaps and ultimately to contribute to the development of country-specific action plans to forge and strengthen these linkages.

2008 | World Health Organization (WHO) | 392 p

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The Operations manual provides guidance on planning and delivering HIV prevention, care, and treatment services at health centres in countries with high HIV prevalence. It provides an operational framework to ensure that HIV services can be provided in an integrated, efficient and quality-assured manner.

2007 | FHI | 8 p

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The integration of services offers a number of benefits. It may not only provide women with greater access to health care, it will also enable women living with HIV to avoid unintended pregnancies. In this issue of Family Health Research, FHI shares their experiences wiht the integration of family planning and HIV services. The following topics are covered in this issue:

2007 | ACQUIRE Project/EngenderHealth | 50 p

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This document was developed for three main purposes: a) to stimulate critical thinking regarding programmatic gaps related to the reproductive health needs of women and couples living with HIV; b) to examine the HIV assessment, prevention, and referral needs of family planning (FP) clients; and c) to assist community and facility-based reproductive health (RH) providers and supervisors in tailoring services to reflect the integration needs of the communities they serve.

2007 | INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs (JHUCCP) | 25 p

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Meeting the unmet health care needs of young people poses a continuing challenge for health systems worldwide, yet it is critical to containing the AIDS epidemic and reducing unintended pregnancies. An integrated approach to the delivery of reproductive health care expands youth access to health care by making multiple services available at the same facility, during the same hours, and often from the same provider.

2007 | International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP)

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This is a table showing different packages of care to be provided according to type of health facility.

2007 | World Health Organization [WHO] | 76 p

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This tool is designed to help health workers counsel people living with HIV on sexual and reproductive choices and family planning. It also is meant to help people living with HIV make and carry out informed, healthy, and appropriate decisions about their sexual and reproductive lives.

2006 | EngenderHealth | 239 p

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With increasing availability and accessibility of HIV-related care and treatment, HIV-positive women and adolescent girls are regaining their health, living longer, and planning for their future. This includes making decisions about their sexuality and about the possibility of starting or expanding a family. To do so, HIV-positive women and adolescent girls need to access high-quality SRH services that also take into account their particular needs.

2005 | UNFPA | 23 p

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This annotated inventory contributes to strengthening linkages between HIV/AIDS and SRH 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 SRH programmes (sexual health, maternal health, family planning and STI management) and conversely, that link SRH with HIV/AIDS programmes (prevention, treatment, care and support).

2004 | John Snow Inc (JSI) | 205 p

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This guide/manual was developed to help family planning clinic managers and staff strategically work through how to provide integrated HIV services in the context of the clinic's organizational structure and resources. The manual consists of several modules each addressing key aspects of HIV integration including: Guiding principles/Model of care, Providing HIV Risk Assessment and Prevention Counseling Services, Linkage to HIV Testing Services, and Developing Referral Networks and Procedures. The manual also includes an extensive Special Section on Cultural Competence.

2004 | IPPF South Asia Regional Office and UNFPA | 87 p

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This guide aims to provide sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programme planners, managers, and providers with the information necessary to integrate voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS within their services. VCT has been shown to be an effective strategy to facilitate behaviour change for HIV prevention. It offers an entry point for early care and support for those infected with HIV and prevention of mother to child transmission. VCT also plays a role in reducing stigma and discrimination.

2004 | IPPF South Asia Regional Office and UNFPA | 87 p

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