Publications by authors named "Kevin Osborne"
People living with HIV often have unmet needs for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. We present results of a systematic review of studies offering SRH services targeted to people living with HIV. Studies were selected from a broader SRH and HIV linkages review.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The international community agrees that the Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved without ensuring universal access to both sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support. Recently, there has been increasing awareness and discussion of the possible benefits of linkages between SRH and HIV programmes at the policy, systems and service delivery levels. However, the evidence for the efficacy of these linkages has not been systematically assessed.
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- The review aimed to assess how effective and best to link family planning and HIV interventions based on existing literature.
- It analyzed 16 studies from 1990 to 2007, focusing on various intervention types that combined family planning and HIV services.
- Overall, findings suggested that these integrated interventions were feasible and often effective, despite a generally low quality of study designs.