HIV/Aids, sexual and reproductive health at Aids 2000, Durban

Bibliographic Data

ID4829596
AuthorsMarge Berer (0000-0001-6139-497X, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume8
Issue16
Pages160-169
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReproductive Health Matters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-8080 • E-ISSN: 1460-9576
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/s0968-8080(00)90200-3
PMID11424246
OpenAlexW1970219739
LanguageEN
Citations received1

The 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban was a milestone in many ways, the most important being that it took place in southern Africa and brought together many more people from the African region with others from developing countries internationally than any previous conference. This should be repeated often and soon. For women, however, reproductive and sexual health issues were by and large not visible on the main conference agenda, except for prevention of mother-to-child transmission and sexually transmitted disease (STD) interventions, including STD prevalence, efforts at treatment and the effects of treatment on HIV transmission. An analysis of all the abstracts on the conference CD-Rom (including both presentations and posters, a total of almost 5,000 abstracts), using 25 reproductive and sexual health keywords, turned up much valuable work, and some new developments worth knowing about. These are summarised here, followed by condensed versions of some of the most interesting abstracts

Biology · Developing country · Economic growth · Environmental health · Family medicine · Geography · Milestone · Population · Pregnancy · Psychological intervention · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Sexual and reproductive health and rights · Sexual transmission · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Medicine