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SRH & HIV Bulletin 3
Strengthening Social Science Research Capacity

Factsheet on combatting congenital syphilis
produced in partnership with Realising Rights

PLUS:

The impact of
HSV-2 treatment on HIV
See the paper by Nagot et al. in the New England Journal of Medicine:
Press Release
and Paper and the latest edition of the SRH & HIV Bulletin No. 2

SRH & HIV Bulletin No. 1

Rapid Diagnostic Tests for STIs, a supplement of the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections

RPC research at the XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto, 2006

HIV/AIDS is among the greatest threats to development in the world today. Sixty million people have been infected in the past 25 years, more than 20 million have died, and 40 million are living with the virus. The poorest countries have been most severely affected, and within them, the poorest people.

Poverty is a major determinant of other reproductive health outcomes in addition to HIV. Studies have shown that the poor have larger families than the rich, that poor women are less likely to give birth attended by trained health staff, and that poor women have lower access to family planning services.

The implications for global poverty of adopting proven, effective, evidence-based programmes for reproductive health and HIV prevention and care are significant. The Consortium is working to strengthen the evidence base and to address the vicious cycle of poverty and reproductive ill-health.

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine;
National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania;
Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana;
School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana;
Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;
Social and Public Health Sciences Unit of the Medical Research Council, Glasgow, UK;
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF);
Population Services International (PSI).