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Urgent call for expansion of Contraceptive Method Mix
amidst the unanswered question of whether Depo-Provera increases HIV acquisition.
Today, The International Community of Women Living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA) joins Reproductive Health Leaders and Partners from all over the World in commemorating the World Contraception Day, 2016 (WCD). ICWEA reiterates a call to World Health Organisation (WHO), Pharmaceutical Companies, Private Foundations, Policy Makers, Governments, and FP 2020 Partner Countries and other partners at all levels to respond to the unmet Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights and family planning needs of women and girls in all our diversity.
Since the release of the findings of Heffron et al Study in October 2011, suggesting the possibility that progestogen-only contraceptives may increase risk of acquiring HIV, ICWEA in collaboration with AVAC, the HIV prevention advocates, reproductive health service providers, Women Advocates and Women living with HIV from all over the world have been following the debates & discussions on this critical issue at all levels.
