Integrate Family Planning and HIV Prevention
As public health professionals and AIDS prevention advocates prepare for next month's International HIV/AIDS Conference in Toronto, Janet Fleischman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, writes in today's Baltimore Sun about the need for integration of family planning and HIV services. This same notion, long supported by those working in the reproductive health field, was also recently promoted in a major new study arguing for the inclusion for reproductive health in the Millennium Development Goals, as a means of of reaching the goal for HIV treatment and prevention.
As public health professionals and AIDS prevention advocates prepare for next month's International HIV/AIDS Conference in Toronto, Janet Fleischman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, writes in today's Baltimore Sun about the need for integration of family planning and HIV services. This same notion, long supported by those working in the reproductive health field, was also recently promoted in a major new study arguing for the inclusion for reproductive health in the Millennium Development Goals, as a means of of reaching the goal for HIV treatment and prevention.