Please join us on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 for a discussion about pregnancy options for women and couples with HIV. For HIV-positive or sero-discordant couples who want to conceive, the counseling and services they receive need to be tailored to their specific needs, which may vary from couple to couple. Some of the more technologically sophisticated strategies currently being examined to help couples living with HIV safely conceive and deliver may not be appropriate or feasible in many resource-constrained or rural settings. To help address these and other key issues, the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society developed guidelines on safer conception for fertile individuals and couples living with HIV in 2011. Combined with effective, rights-based counseling to elicit the pregnancy desires of clients, these types of guidelines can help policymakers, program managers, and providers better support clients living with HIV to achieve their fertility intentions. This webinar will address the current evidence on safer conception messages, options, and practices for women and couples living with HIV; the opportunities for and obstacles to widespread implementation of safer conception guidelines in resource-constrained settings; and the perspectives of women living with HIV regarding pregnancy desire and safer conception.**
** This meeting is funded through the USAID Cooperative Agreement with FHI 360 for the Preventive Technologies Agreement (PTA), No. GHO-A-00-09-00016-00. The information presented at this meeting does not necessarily reflect the policies or views of USAID or FHI 360.
