A discussion of key values to inform the design and delivery of services for HIV-affected women and couples attempting pregnancy in resource-constrained settings.

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Published in J Int AIDS Soc on December 01, 2015

Authors

Renee Heffron1,2, Natasha Davies3, Ian Cooke4, Angela Kaida5, Reid Mergler6, Sheryl van der Poel7, Craig R Cohen8, Okeoma Mmeje9,10

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
2: Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; rheffron@uw.edu.
3: Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
4: Department of Human Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
5: Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.
6: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
7: Department of Reproductive Health and Research Including the Human Reproduction Research Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
8: Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
9: Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
10: Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

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