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What is the impact of HIV on families?
What is the impact of HIV on families? December 2005 ABSTRACT This Health Evidence Network (HEN) evidence report examines how HIV influences family lives and howfamilies deal with the disease. In the context of an increasing number of HIV positive people in Europe, the reporthighlights several policy considerations such as: promotion of primary and secondary HIV prevention with specific efforts directed at the group of people below 30 years of age; environmental changes likely to reduce the risk of HIV, such as policy changes and the reduction of poverty; and establishement of family-based services, possibly integrated into family planning, antenatal care andobstetric and child health services, aimed at the specific needs of living with HIV and HAART.
vulnerable. For these people, the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) now allows them to live longer with HIV. Also, since antiretroviral therapy has reduced the risk of mother-to-child transmission of the virus, infected men and women can consider parenting, and HIV-infected children are living into adolescence.
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