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Article: Ensuring the sexual and reproductive health of people living with HIV: policies, programmes and health services.(INTRODUCTION)(human immunodeficiency virus)
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- Reproductive Health Matters
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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"Although the sexual and reproductive health-related rights, needs and aspirations of HIV positive women and men are very similar to those of men and women not infected with HIV, some key biological and social differences require specific attention." (Gruskin, Ferguson, O'Malley)
IN 2006, there were some 39.7 million people living with HIV, half of them under the age of 25. * People living 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 non-infected peers. Yet sexual and reproductive health policies, programmes and services often fail to take into ...