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Tanzania: Merging Family Planning and HIV Services
March 1, 2010
A Tanzanian project is integrating family planning and HIV messages via community health workers who teach HIV-positive couples how to avoid unwanted pregnancies or infecting their unborn children.
"I talk to them and they tell me they are afraid," Margaret Mapunda, a trained community health worker in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, told IRIN/PlusNews. "Some want [children] but they don’t know what to do and just conceive and go to traditional birth attendants to deliver."
"Many are taking antiretrovirals and they don't even know which contraceptives are good and bad," she added. "They do not ask because of stigma. Some say they are abused at health facilities."
© 2010 IRIN
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http://www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=88263
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Liza Nanni on 3 March 2010
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