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Are Cost Savings Incurred by Offering Family Planning Services at Emergency Plan HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Facilities?
POLICY (March 2006)
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the costs and savings associated with making FP services available at HIV/AIDS treatment centers. The paper will summarize study findings that discuss how providing contraception to HIV-negative and HIV-positive women can help to prevent new infections among women and reduce the risk of a child becoming HIV positive due to an unintended pregnancy or of subsequently becoming an orphan because the child's mother or father dies of AIDS-related causes. The paper will also present estimates of the costs and savings of including family planning in existing HIV-related care and treatment services in the original 14 Emergency Plan focus countries.
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