Edited by:

Marge Berer

Date of publication:

May 2007

Published by:

Reproductive Health Matters

ARC Catalog Number:

HN3.1.B4.C2

Description:

In 2006, there were some 39.7 million people living with HIV, half of them under the age of 25. People with HIV have sexual and reproductive health needs and concerns, some of which are related to having HIV and others which they have in common with their peers. Yet sexual and reproductive health policies, programmes and health services often fail to take their needs and wishes into consideration.

In March 2006, a global consultation on the rights of people living with HIV to sexual and reproductive health was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The papers in this volume were originally commissioned by the World Health Organization Department of Reproductive Health and Research as background papers for the consultation.

The papers review what is known about the specific sexual and reproductive health needs of people living with HIV, and the challenges of providing appropriate services from a policy, programme and health systems perspective.