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Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Living with HIV: Guidance for Program Managers, Health Workers, and Activists
While women and girls living with HIV should be able to exercise the same rights as everyone else—including to choose freely if and when to become pregnant—this is often not the case. Even in Brazil, which has one of the most progressive HIV programs in the world, yet where the face of HIV is increasingly female, women have faced a host of challenges. Developed with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Sexual and Reproductive Health of Women and Girls Living with HIV: Guidance for Program Managers, Health Workers, and Activists draws on lessons learned in Brazil to offer guidance and recommendations for creating programs that protect and promote the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls living with HIV and AIDS. Based on experiences in Brazil, the report presents guidance in four key programmatic areas:
Download this publication in English (PDF, 3.3mb) and Portuguese (PDF, 5.5mb).
Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV-Positive Women and Adolescent Girls: A Manual for Trainers and Programme Managers
This manual, developed in collaboration with the International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), provides information and a structure for a four-day training and a two-day planning workshop that will enable program managers and health workers to provide comprehensive, nonjudgmental, and high-quality SRH care and support to HIV-positive women and adolescent girls. The manual is designed for a local context with limited resources. The manual also urges male involvement, promotes a holistic approach to integrated SRH counseling, and emphasizes program planning that links SRH and HIV services.
(2006) English, SM-47. Order this publication. Also available for download in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.
COPE® for HIV Care and Treatment Services: A Toolbook to Accompany the COPE® Handbook
This toolbook, a supplement to the COPE® Handbook, provides updated versions of the self-assessment guides, the client interview guide, and other materials for identifying and solving on-site problems that compromise the quality of services designed for HIV care and treatment. The tools address such issues as information, education, informed consent, confidentiality, disclosure of HIV status, clinical management of HIV, antiretroviral treatment, palliative care, counseling on drug adherence, positive prevention, monitoring drug toxicity and viral load, HIV-TB coinfection, referrals to home and community-based care, integration of SRH and HIV services, and community action to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase support for HIV prevention and care services.
(2008) English.
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COPE® for HIV Counseling and Testing Services: A Toolbook to Accompany the COPE® Handbook
This toolbook, a supplement to the COPE® Handbook, provides updated versions of the self-assessment guides, the client interview guide, and other materials for identifying and solving on-site problems that compromise the quality of services designed for HIV counseling and testing. The tools address such issues as information, education, informed consent, disclosure of HIV status, counseling on HIV prevention and care, condom promotion, HIV counseling and testing approaches, laboratory diagnostics, referrals to care and treatment services both at the health facility and in the community, integration of SRH and HIV services, and community action to reduce stigma and discrimination and increase support for HIV prevention and care services.
(2008) English.
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Family Planning–Integrated HIV Services: A Framework for Integrating Family Planning and Antiretroviral Therapy Services
This document is intended to stimulate critical thinking about programmatic gaps related to the reproductive health needs of women and couples living with HIV and to help community- and facility-based providers of HIV care and treatment and their supervisors tailor services to reflect the family planning needs of the users and communities they serve. It looks systematically at service delivery considerations for achieving integration.
(2007) English. SM-A-52
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HIV Prevention in Maternal Health Services
This two-volume set (programming guide and training guide) is designed to address the challenge of enabling HIV-negative women who become pregnant to remain infection-free. The programming guide will help policymakers, program managers, and trainers address programming gaps in the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in maternal health services and increase maternal health providers' capacity to provide pregnant and postpartum women with HIV and STI prevention services and referrals. Packaged with the programming guide is a key messages card, a stand-alone laminated card showing 10 key prevention messages for counselors to impart to pregnant and postpartum women. The training guide provides a series of activities designed to build the capacity of program managers and staff to offer integrated HIV and STI services for pregnant and postpartum clients within their particular service-delivery setting. Produced jointly by UNFPA and EngenderHealth.
(2004) Programming guide: English, SM-32P, French, SM-32PF $18 / Training guide: English, SM-32T, French, SM-32TF $15. Order this publication. Also available in PDF: English only.
Paving the Path: Preparing for Microbicide Introduction
This report details the results of a qualitative study that explored a wide range of positive and negative issues likely to influence the introduction of microbicide use to prevent HIV transmission in South Africa. By presenting the contextual and product-related concerns surrounding microbicides, the report paves the way for policy makers, program managers, and health care workers who may be planning to introduce microbicides to the public. Produced jointly by EngenderHealth, the University of Cape Town–Women's Health Research Unit, the Population Council, and the International Partnership for Microbicides.
(2004) Available in PDF format only: English.
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination Related to HIV and AIDS: Training for Health Care Workers
A comprehensive curriculum designed to address the serious issues of stigma and discrimination related to HIV and AIDS in health care settings. Focuses on the impact of HIV and AIDS on provider behaviors, ensuring clients' rights in receiving health care services, and improving standard precautions and postexposure care. Provides guidance in developing action plans to help the participants put what they have learned into practice at their service settings.
(2004) Trainer's manual: English, SM-31T, French, SM-31TF, Free / Participant's handbook: English, SM-31P, French, SM-31PF, Free. Order this publication. Also available as a PDF download.
Integration of HIV and STI Prevention, Sexuality, and Dual Protection in Family Planning Counseling: A Training Manual
Geared for health care staff, this two-volume set (manual and handouts) features participatory exercises on sexuality and gender; HIV and STI transmission, prevention, and dual protection; integrated counseling skills; and other trainers' resources. Working draft.
(2002) English SM-28. $17. Order this publication. Also available in PDF.
What Every Client Should Know: STI/HIV Prevention Quick-Reference Cards for Health Care Providers
These cards list key points of preventive information to discuss with every client. The three cards provide information for three different audiences: family planning clients, antenatal clients, and general health care clients.
(2000) English SM-19. Free. Order this publication.
