Linkages between sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV

Universal access to sexual and reproductive health information and services

would have far-reaching effects for both the maternal health and child health Goals and for virtually every other Goal, including those for HIV/AIDS, gender, education, environment, hunger and income poverty.

Task Force on Child Health and Maternal Health of the United Nations Millennium Project, Who's Got the Power: Transforming Health Systems for Women and Children (2005)

Over the past decade, the international community has reiterated calls for integrating and strengthening linkages between sexual and reproductive health services and strategies and services for prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. This is because HIV is essentially a sexually transmitted infection or transmitted during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. Thus, the Millennium Development Goal of reversing the HIV pandemic cannot possibly be achieved without addressing sexual and reproductive health. Five priority aspects are targeted in the global reproductive health strategy and each of these can contribute to strengthening the research as well as the policy and programmatic linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV.

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HIV Technical Briefs

Strengthening linkages between family planning and HIV: Reproductive choices and family planning for people living with HIV
5 pages (103 kb)
Strengthening linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV - 3 pages (105 kb)
Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV - 6 pages (120 kb)