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Article: Preventing sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy, and safeguarding fertility: triple protection needs of young women.
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- Reproductive Health Matters
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Abstract: The problems and risks of unprotected sex, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections ore inextricably linked. In this context, the critical yet overlooked problem of infertility also needs to be addressed. Dual protection means concurrent protection against unintended pregnancy and STI/HIV. This paper argues for a more comprehensive notion of "triple protection" to include the safeguarding of fertility. This is intended explicitly to draw out the connection between infertility and STIs--using the "visibility" of fertility and infertility and people's immediate connection with them--and in so doing to bolster STI prevention and control efforts. It ...