Prevention and conception

Routine primary care includes discussions, repeated over time, concerning prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, pregnancy prevention, preconception counselling, and managing a healthy pregnancy. HIV prevention discussions might include how to minimise the risk of transmitting HIV to a seronegative partner or to an infant.

Pregnancy plans are important when choosing an antiretroviral regimen. Drugs such as efavirenz might be best avoided due to the number of unplanned pregnancies found in any population and because of the drug's teratogenic effect on foetal development in the first trimester.

Women seeking pre-conception counselling might be best referred to a provider with expertise in this area, particularly in cases where one partner is HIV-positive and the other is not.  

Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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