What Works for Women and Girls

Gaps in Programming—Structuring Health Services to Meet Women’s Needs1. Improved integration is needed between maternal health services and HIV treatmentservices.2. Providers must have access to gowns, gloves and eye protection to decrease the riskof occupational exposure.3. Ongoing efforts are needed for safe needle disposal.4. Reliable drug and lab supplies are necessary to ensure adherence.5. Improved record keeping on HIV counseling, serostatus, and treatment is needed toimprove referrals and linkages with other health care services.6. Health care provider training is needed to increase confidentiality and decreasediscrimination against sex workers seeking health services.7. Providers need training on contraception, including non-directive counseling andreducing stigma and discrimination for women living with HIV.8. Health service providers must make additional efforts to ensure confidentialityregarding patient’s serostatus.9. Health care settings must address the needs of transgender people and reducebarriers to services.10. Where abortion is legal, providers should be trained not to discriminate against HIVpositivewomen who want to terminate their pregnancies.11. Interventions are needed to improve quality of HIV treatment and care within healthservices.12. Interventions are needed to screen and treat both male and female sexual partners forSTIs.13. Efforts are needed to ensure that providing family-focused HIV care within maternaland child health programs doesn’t discourage men from seeking HIV services.14. Policy guidelines need to specify how contraception should be addressed in HIVprevention, treatment and care.15. Additional efforts are needed to provide postpartum women with contraceptioninformation and methods so they may space or prevent their next pregnancy.16. Additional efforts are needed to reduce the risk of TB transmission in high risk, lowresource settings.WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS383