The current parallel financing and health service infrastructure for HIV/AIDS was developed in response to the urgent call to address the AIDS crisis and the global health community’s understanding of the disease over two decades ago. Despite these overlaps, HIV/AIDS and SRH services have been historically separate and uncoordinated.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of new HIV cases are among women and girls, a major target of SRH services. The greater proportion of pediatric HIV infections is spread from mother-to-child in the process of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. The importance of linking HIV/AIDS as a part of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is abundantly clear: the majority of HIV cases-about 85%-are sexually transmitted and both HIV/AIDS and many illnesses linked to SRH have the same root causes. Sexual and reproductive health: Refers to programs and policies related to and including family planning (FP), maternal and newborn health (MNH), STIs, reproductive tract infections (RTIs), promotion of sexual health, prevention and management of gender-based violence, prevention of unsafe abortion and post-abortion care. It is based on the need to offer comprehensive health services. This would include referrals from one service to another, for example. Integration: Refers to how different kinds of HIV and SRH services or operational programs can be joined together to ensure and perhaps maximize collective improved outcomes. Linkages: Refers to the bi-directional synergies in policy, programs, service and advocacy between HIV/AIDS and SRH. Terms used in this document are based on definitions developed by WHO, UNAIDS, UNFPA and IPPF in Sexual and Reproductive Health & HIV/AIDS: A Framework for Priority Linkages, 2005, and Rapid Assessment Tool for SRH and HIV Linkages: A Generic Guide, 2008:īi-directionality: Refers to linking both SRH with HIV-related policies and programs and HIV with SRH-related policies and programs. Why link HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health?Ĭurrent Evidence on HIV/AIDS and SRH LinkagesĮxamples of integration of HIV/AIDS and family planning (FP) HIV/AIDS and Sexual Reproductive Health Linkages
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