AIDS and Women’s Reproductive Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Lincoln C. Chen, Jaime Supulveda Amor, Sheldon J. Segal

      Pages 1-9

3. Epidemiology and Policy

   1. AIDS: Challenges to Epidemiology in the 1990s

      • Jonathan M. Mann

      Pages 11-15

   2. Aids and Reproductive Health: Women’s Perspectives

      • Katherine D. LaGuardia

      Pages 17-25

   3. Policy and Legal Aspects of Aids Interventions: Individual Rights and Social Responsibilities

      • Harvey V. Fineberg

      Pages 27-33

4. Risk Factor in Transmission

   1. Factors Affecting Female-to-Male Transmission of HIV-1: Implications of Transmission Dynamics for Prevention

      • Francis A. Plummer, Stephen Moses, Jackoniah O. Ndinya-Achola

      Pages 35-45

   2. Epidemiological Synergy: Interrelationships Between HIV Infection and Other STDs

      • Judith N. Wasserheit

      Pages 47-72

   3. The Public Health Significance of Sexually Transmitted Diseases for HIV Infection in Africa

      • Seth Berkley

      Pages 73-84

   4. Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Syphilis Infection in Women of Childbearing Age in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

      • Debrework Zewdie, Nebiat Tafari

      Pages 85-92

   5. Contraception, Family Planning, and HIV

      • David J. Hunter, Japheth K. Mati

      Pages 93-107

   6. Human Sexuality and Aids: The Case of Male Bisexuality

      • Richard G. Parker, Manuel Carballo

      Pages 109-117

5. Risk Factor in Transmission

   1. Mother-to-Fetus/Infant Transmission of HIV-1: Scientific Evidence and Research Needs

      • Olav Meirik

      Pages 119-125

   2. HIV Perinatal Transmission and Reproductive Health

      • Phyllis J. Kanki, Mbowa Kalengayi, Souleymane M. Boup

      Pages 127-136

   3. Methods for Decreasing HIV Transmission to Infants

      • Sally Jody Heymann

      Pages 137-149

6. Interventions

   1. An Overview of Aids Interventions in High-Risk Groups: Commercial Sex Workers and Their Clients

      • Peter Lamptey

      Pages 151-163

   2. Intervention Research Needs for Aids Prevention Among Commercial Sex Workers and Their Clients

      • Barbara O. de Zalduondo, Mauricio Hernandez Avila, Patricia Uribe Zuñiga

      Pages 165-178

   3. Diversity in Commercial Sex Work Systems: Preliminary Findings from Mexico City and Their Implications for Aids Interventions

      • Mauricio Hernandez Avila, Patricia Uribe Zuniga, Barbara O. de Zalduondo

      Pages 179-194

   4. Conclusion

      • Lincoln C. Chen, Jaime Sepulveda Amor, Sheldon J. Segal

      Pages 195-202

7. Back Matter

   Pages 203-208

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Over the past decade, the AIDS pandemic has propagated so widely and exerted such a dev­ astating impact that one may properly ask the question, Why not concentrate all AIDS efforts on disease control alone? Why link AIDS with women's reproductive health? What is the scientific basis for this linkage? And how might AID~ control and women's health objectives be promot­ ed simultaneously? These questions constitute the principal themes addressed in this monograph. The 15 chapters in this volume are intended to provide state-of-the-art reviews of key interac­ tions between AIDS and women's reproductive health for an audience of scientists and policy makers in the AIDS and population fields. Impetus for this monograph comes in pan from what we perceive to be an inadequate global response, thus far, to AIDS and women's health ;>roblems. A common platform has failed to emerge among the disparate professional communities working in the areas of AIDS, STDs, and family planning. As a result, endeavors in these fields have been isolated, and opportunities for joint action have been missed. An enormous and, as yet, unharnessed potential exists for power­ ful interdisciplinary collaborations that could strengthen policies and programs against these pressing health problems of humankind.

• AIDS
• AIDS prevention
• HIV
• HIV infection
• infection
• prevention
• infectious diseases
• sexual behaviour

• Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

  Lincoln C. Chen

• Ministry of Public Health, Government of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

  Jaime Sepulveda Amor

• The Population Council, New York, USA

  Sheldon J. Segal

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