Family Planning /Reproductive Health for People Living with HIV
This course will help you consider the benefits of integrating family planning (FP) services and counseling with HIV/AIDS services – and how that can be done. The course also covers contraceptive methods for people with HIV and discusses how HIV care providers can help their clients make family planning choices.
Time: Approximately 2 hours
Objectives:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize how people in HIV care will benefit from the integration of Family Planning (FP) services with HIV care
- Identify the range of FP methods that are appropriate for people living with HIV
- Explain the principles behind FP counseling
- Understand how to help clients with HIV make informed decisions about their FP needs
- Describe how FP services could be provided within the major categories of HIV services – care and treatment, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), and HIV counseling and testing (HCT)
- Identify systems that need to be in place to support the integration of FP with HIV/AIDS services.
Further information:
Global Health eLearning Center
The Global Health eLearning Center developed by the USAID Bureau of Global Health is a response to repeated requests from field staff for access to technical public health information. We have heard from USAID Population, Health, and Nutrition officers (PHNs) and from Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs) that they want to be current on global health topics, yet find it a challenge to obtain the information because of logistical and time constraints. The Global Health eLearning Center provides Internet-based courses that:
- Provide useful and timely continuing education for health professionals
- Offer state-of-the-art technical content on key public health topics
- Serve as a practical resource for increasing public health knowledge
Comments? Questions? We welcome your feedback!
Please contact us by email at GHLearningAdministrator@usaid.gov.