Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #116191

Ndola Prata, MD, MSc¹, Ben Bellows, MPH¹, Martha Campbell, PhD², and Malcolm Potts, MB, BChir, PhD³. (1) Bixby Population Program, University of California, Berkeley, 513 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, 510-381-9603, bbellows@berkeley.edu, (2) CEIHD, University of California, Berkeley, 717 University Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, (3) Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, Earl Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

The onset of the HIV epidemic has changed the nature and in some cases the resources available for family planning programs in many parts of the world. In this paper we explore how policies are driving the response to family planning and HIV prevention programs. Using available literature and data from two DHSs per country, we assess family planning programs' performance and condom use in the era of HIV. We track contraceptive use since the late 80's and map changes in policies, HIV prevalence rates, and resources allocated for both programs. We analyze Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Zimbabwe, a more successful family planning program, relying on the pill did not yet witness an increase in condom use to the level desired by the HIV program. Mozambique, a weaker family planning program in the beginning of the epidemic, is witnessing a significant increase in contraception due to condom use.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the changes in resources available for family planning programs in the era of HIV.
• Assess family planning program's performance and condom use in HIV prevention programs.
• Discuss modern contraceptive use and HIV prevalence rates since 1980s, map changes in policies and resources alloctated for both programs.

Keywords: HIV/AIDS, Family Planning

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

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