Client and Provider Perspectives on Integration of Family Plan-
ning Counseling and HIV/AIDS Services
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Online Forum: May 1 - 26, 2006
Share your experiences and lessons learned. Discuss issues with
guest experts from USAID, international agencies, and projects
in the field.
How to participate:
To sign up send an e-mail to info@ibpinitiative.org with "FP/HIV
Integration Forum" in the subject line. In your e-mail, please
include your name and the name of the country in which you work.
You will receive an e-mail response explaining how the forum
will work.
How the forum will work:
During this month-long forum, you will receive only one e-mail a
day with all the contributions for that day presented as a sin-
gle daily digest e-mail. You will be able to participate in the
forum simply by responding to this daily e-mail. Or, you can
contribute to the discussion via the web, through the Implement-
ing Best Practices in Reproductive Health Knowledge Gateway at
http://www.ibpinitiative.org/
The forum will provide you with up-to-date and state-of-the-art
information on what is happening in the field and an opportunity
for synergy between sharing global best practices and country-
based experiences. This online forum will build upon existing
partnerships and activities among three groups: the Implementing
Best Practices in Reproductive Health Initiative (IBP) Initia-
tive, the Maximizing Access and Quality Subcommittee on Client
Provider Interaction (CPI), and the Family Planning and HIV/AIDS
Integration Working Group.
Organizers:
The Health Communication Partnership (HCP) and The INFO Project
will coordinate this online forum, in conjunction with the Im-
plementing Best Practices in Reproductive Health (IBP) Initia-
tive. The IBP's Knowledge Gateway provides a place for organiza-
tions working in international health to host online communities
of practice (CoPs). This forum will also launch a new online
community of practice on integration of family planning and
HIV/AIDS services, where you can continue to discuss issues
raised by integration and share your experiences with others
working in this important area.
Schedule:
Each week the forum will focus discussion on a specific aspect
of the issue of integrating family planning counseling into
HIV/AIDS services with several experts on hand to provide an in-
troduction to the issue, answer questions, and stimulate discus-
sion.
Week 1 will be a follow-up to the March videoconference on the
same topic. The objective will be to address lingering questions
and delve deeper into some of the issues that were raised. (see
http://www.fpandhiv.org/videoconference/cpieventpage.php for
more on the videoconference).
Week 2 will focus on provider perspectives/barriers to including
family planning in HIV/AIDS counseling.
Week 3 will focus on client perspectives on family planning
counseling in HIV/AIDS settings.
Week 4 will be devoted to discussion of future direc-
tions/challenges/barriers.
We hope this will be a productive month of interesting and tar-
geted discussions. Please let me know if you have any sugges-
tions, questions or concerns.
Links:
* Implementing Best Practices in Reproductive Health Knowledge
Gateway: http://www.ibpinitiative.org
* Maximizing Access and Quality Web Site: http://www.maqweb.org
* Family Planning and HIV/AIDS Integration Web Site:
http://www.fpandhiv.org
* Health Communication Partnership (HCP):
http://www.hcpartnership.org
* INFO Project: http://www.infoforhealth.org
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Margaret A. D'Adamo
Deputy Project Director - The INFO Project
111 Market Place #310, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
mailto:mdadamo@jhuccp.org