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Social and legal issues
HIV-positive women in Chile face forced sterilization

Hours after Francisca gave birth to her first child, a midwife came into the recovery room and bluntly informed her that she would never have children again. She had been sterilized, unknowingly, during her cesarean delivery.

Published
08 November 2010
From
Global Post
Families and children
Low birth weight seen in small minority of infants exposed to some antiretroviral drugs

Analyses of 20 years of data from the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Register (APR) shows no risk of birth defects or other defects from antiretroviral use, either in combination or

Published
22 July 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Treatment for women
Meta-analysis suggests efavirenz does not increase risk of birth abnormalities

Treatment with efavirenz during the first three months of pregnancy does not increase the risk of birth abnormalities, according to the results of a systematic

Published
02 June 2010
By
Michael Carter
Conception
Try this at home

For couples where the woman has HIV and the man does not, self-insemination is a safe way to get pregnant. Selina Corkery and Roger Pebody explain.

Published
01 May 2010
From
HIV treatment update
HIV and sex
UK women with HIV need more conception and contraception advice

Women living with HIV in the UK would welcome greater provision of integrated sexual and reproductive healthcare services by their HIV clinics, according to three

Published
03 April 2009
By
Roger Pebody
Transmission and prevention
IAS: PrEP and timed intercourse reduces HIV transmission risk associated with natural conception

Assisted reproduction techniques have been helping mixed-status heterosexual couples conceive safely since 1992. When the male is HIV-positive, this usually involves ‘sperm washing’ and artificial

Published
23 July 2007
By
Edwin J. Bernard
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