What Works for Women and Girls

What Works—Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs1. Integrating HIV testing and services with family planning, maternal health care orwithin primary care facilities can increase uptake of HIV testing and other reproductivehealth services.2. Promoting contraceptives and family planning as part of routine HIV services (andvice versa) can increase condom use, contraceptive use, and dual method use, thusaverting unintended pregnancies among women living with HIV.3. Providing VCT together with other health services can increase the number of peopleaccessing VCT.4. Scaling up PMTCT programs increases the number of women who know theirserostatus, and improves HIV knowledge.5. Clinic-based interventions with outreach workers can be effective in increasingcondom use among sex workers.6. Providing accessible, routine, high quality, voluntary and confidential STI clinicalservices that include condom promotion can be successful in reducing HIV riskamong sex workers.7. Home testing, consented to by household members, can increase the number ofpeople who learn their serostatus.8. Training providers can reduce discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS.9. Establishing comprehensive post-rape care protocols, which include PEP, can improveservices for women.10. Providing clinic services that are youth-friendly, conveniently located, affordable,confidential and non-judgmental can increase use of clinic reproductive healthservices, including VCT.372 CHAPTER 13 STRUCTURING HEALTH SERVICES TO MEET WOMEN’S NEEDS