Assessing access to assisted reproductive services for serodiscordant couples with human immunodeficiency virus infection.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand the barriers that serodiscordant couples with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) face in accessing services for risk reduction and infertility using assisted reproductive technology (ART).

Design

Two-arm cross-sectional telephone "secret shopper" study.

Setting

Infertility clinics designated by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART), 140 from 15 American states with the highest prevalence of heterosexual HIV-infected men.

Patient(s)

Clinical and nonclinical staff at SART-registered clinics.

Intervention(s)

Standardized telephone calls to SART-registered clinics by investigators in the roles of physician and patient callers.

Main outcome measure(s)

Availability and difference in services offered to callers a

SUBMITTER: Leech AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9720783 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature