Access to sexual and reproductive health services for women living with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean: systematic review of the literature.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Systematic reviews show that women living with HIV (WLHIV) have high unmet sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs due to barriers to access sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS). In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as of 2016, there were nearly one million WLHIV, but the existing evidence of their SRH needs comes from a few individual studies. This systematic review provides an overview of these women's needs to help define new and/or adapt existing public health strategies to the local context. This review synthesizes the evidence from the literature on the use of and access to SRHS related to family planning, antenatal care, abortion services and violence against WLHIV in LAC.

Methods

Using a systematic review of mixed studies, a search was

SUBMITTER: Gomez-Suarez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6452919 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature