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

M Berer

    Reproductive Health Matters
    |June 26, 2001
    PubMed

    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.

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