Preventing Unintended Pregnancy and HIV Transmission

Context: Benefits of Preventing Unintended Pregnancy

CONTEXT: BENEFITS OF PREVENTING UNINTENDED PREGNANCY Among HIV-infected women in sub-Saharan Africa, about 60–90% of pregnancies are unintended.1–3 Improving uptake and use of voluntary family planning (FP) among this group of women could help them and their partners have the families that they want. In addition, prevention of unintended pregnancy contributes to prevention of mother-to-child tr...

Preventing unintended pregnancy: a pediatric opportunity.

Prevention is the cornerstone of pediatric practice, with immunization the prototype strategy because of its significant effectiveness in preventing selected infections. Other targets of prevention such as obesity, injuries, birth defects, and drug and alcohol use are important but lack simple, evidence-based, and equally effective strategies. We suggest that in response to the improvement in t...

Preventing Unintended Pregnancy: The Need and the Means

Even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1999 declared family planning to be one of the 10 most significant U.S. public health achievements of the 20th century, half of all pregnancies in the United States are still unintended. And the consequences of unintended pregnancy can be serious, even life-altering, particularly for women who are young or unmarried, have just recent...

Preventing Unintended Pregnancies: An Essential Component for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV

Preventing Unintended Pregnancy and HIV Transmission: Effects of the HIV Treatment Cascade on Contraceptive Use and Choice in Rural KwaZulu-Natal

BACKGROUND For women living with HIV, contraception using condoms is recommended because it prevents not only unintended pregnancy but also acquisition of other sexually transmitted infections and onward transmission of HIV. Dual-method dual-protection contraception (condoms with other contraceptive methods) is preferable over single-method dual-protection contraception (condoms alone) because ...