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Integrating fertility care and HIV treatment and prevention: how couples affected by HIV can achieve pregnancy safely

Integrating fertility care and HIV treatment and prevention: how couples affected by HIV can achieve pregnancy safely

World Health Organisation (WHO) - "By the end of 2015 there were approximately 36.7 million people living with HIV globally, up to half of whom have HIV-negative partners. HIV-serodiscordant couples – that is, people living with HIV who have HIV-negative partners – who would like to have children, are often inadequately supported by or face significant barriers to accessing existing sexual and reproductive health services.

Fertility screening and HIV treatment and prevention – to minimise HIV infection, whilst working towards achieving pregnancy safely – are crucial for all serodiscordant couples, regardless of whether or not they have fertility problems." (Photo: AIDSVaccine/ Mobile testing in Africa/ flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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