How linked are national HIV and SRHR strategies? A review of SRHR and HIV strategies in 60 countries.

The connection between HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is widely recognised along with the benefits of linking them at the legal/policy, health systems, and service delivery levels. However, despite increased rhetoric about the need for this three-tiered approach, integrated service delivery has not been fully addressed at the legal/policy level through national strategies. Thus a review of HIV and SRHR strategies was conducted for 60 countries, determining the extent to which they reflected the intersections between HIV and SRHR.

Integrating PMTCT Into Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Related Services: Experiences From the Global Plan Priority Countries.

The urgency to scale-up sustainable programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) prompted priority countries of the Global Plan Toward the Elimination of New HIV Infections Among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive (Global Plan) to expand the delivery of PMTCT services through greater integration with sexual and reproductive health and child health services. Countries approached integration-what, where, and how services are provided-in diverse ways, with predominantly favorable results. Approaches to integrated services have increased access to a broader range of PMTCT interventions, and they also have proved to be largely acceptable to clients and providers.

Sexually transmitted infections: progress and challenges since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

Background: Despite being recognized as an important challenge at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), sexually transmitted ınfections (STIs) other than HIV are one of the most neglected dimensions of sexual and reproductive health. STIs, often undiagnosed and untreated, have especially harmful consequences for women and their neonates.

Progress Since Icpd: During the last two decades, substantial knowledge and experience have accumulated in behavior change programming during the global response to the HIV epidemic which can also be used for prevention of STIs.

Sexual and reproductive health services for people living with HIV: a systematic review.

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.

Linking sexual and reproductive health and HIV interventions: a systematic review.

Background: 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.

Walking the talk: incorporating physical activity into conferences and meetings.

Have you ever attended a conference that promotes the importance of active living, only to discover that you have spent most of the conference sitting for long periods of time? As was done in the first 2 conferences in 2000 and 2003, Shaping a Healthy Future III: A Rocky Mountain Conference on Weight Realities (2005) incorporated physical activities throughout the meeting to promote active living and to demonstrate how to build enjoyable body movement into the daily lives of busy people. The ideas shared here not only work for conferences but also can be used in staff and committee meetings and even for short breaks at work.