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Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Reproductive Health: Advancing the Scientific and Product Development Agenda Report of a "Think Tank"

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Saving Lives with Multipurpose Prevention Technologies

Saving Lives with Multipurpose Prevention Technologies: Turing Ideas Into Solutions for Sexual and Reproductive Health

This document was developed on behalf of the Initiative for Multipurpose Prevention Technologies (IMPT) for sexual and reproductive health by Bethany Young Holt from the Coalition Advancing Multipurpose Innovations (CAMI) of the Public Health Institute and UCBerkeley School of Public Health and Maggie Kilbourne-Brook, Jess Cohen and Michele Burns of PATH.

Advocacy Brief

Fact Sheet

Contraceptive Technology Update September 2010

Multipurpose methods: New prevention option?

When it comes to unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), young women, adolescents, and the poor often are the most at risk. However, women from all socioeconomic groups face challenges to their sexual and reproductive health.

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Contraception Editorial March 2010

Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Sexual and Reproductive Health: Gaining Momentum and Promise

Over the past four decades, the world has made substantial gains in the effort to prevent unplanned pregnancies and reduce the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV, and other reproductive tract infections (RTIs). Yet, STIs and RTIs still cause a heavy health burden, especially in developing countries, and there is an equally urgent unmet need for contraception.

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Sister to Sister Project

CAMI was supported by the CA AIDS Clearinghouse and the CA Office of AIDS to develop a series of STI and Pregnancy Prevention photo novellas in English and in Spanish targeting adolescents. For more information about these novellas, please contact CAMI at cami@cami-health.com

Resources

The Guttmacher Institute and USAID developed responses to the findings, presented at the IAS in Rome, on hormonal contraceptives and HIV.

Guttmacher Institute: Hormonal Contraceptives and HIV Risk—Emerging Evidence in Context

USAID response to new findings on hormonal contraception and HIV acquisition in uninfected women and HIV transmission from infected women to male partners

Advancing Prevention Technologies for Sexual and Reproductive Health
Report of a Symposium
Berkeley, California, USA, 24-25 March 2009

Report of Symposium

Executive Summary

The Case for a Renewed NIH Focus on Sexual and Reproductive Health Research
Although the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made tremendous contributions to advancing sexual and reproductive health, critical gaps and persistent challenges remain in achieving better outcomes in the United States and globally, according to “The Need for a Revitalized National Research Agenda on Sexual and Reproductive Health for the NIH,” by Sneha Barot. Areas of research that would benefit from a renewed focus on sexual and reproductive health fit into three broad categories: difficulties with the timing and spacing of pregnancies and births; problems associated with achieving healthy childbearing; and the diseases that result from sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Because these three areas have many complex interconnections at the societal and individual level, untangling and understanding their causes and solutions has proven vexing for researchers. Certain entrenched barriers, such as race or gender discrimination, continue to exacerbate these challenges. More complex and multilevel research, employing new and innovative designs and methodologies, is necessary to increase understanding of these problems and address their significant health, social and economic consequences.

Female Condoms and U.S. Foreign Assistance: An Unfinished Imperative for Women’s Health, from CHANGE

Combining prevention of HIV-1, other sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies: Development of dual-protection technologies
Antiviral Research. 2010 Dec;88(Sup 1)S47-S54.

Facilitating Regulatory Approval of Multipurpose Prevention Technologies for Sexual and Reproductive Health
By Martha Brady
Brief
Publication date: 2011, The Population Council

The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Act of 2010 addresses the need to support and improve sexual and reproductive health across the globe.

Increasing the Effectiveness of Vaginal Microbicides: A Biophysical Framework to Rethink Behavioral Acceptability
Stephane Verguet, Bethany Young Holt, Andrew J. Szeri
PLoS ONE. 2010 Nov;5(11).

Novel Approaches to Vaginal Delivery and Safety of Microbicides: Biopharmaceuticals, Nanoparticles, and Vaccines
Antiviral Research. 2010 Dec;88(Sup 1)S55-S66.

The Past, Present, and Future of HIV Microbicide Research Advocacy
An Interview with Polly Harrison, founder of the Alliance for Microbicide Development
News on the Fight for better treatment, a vaccine, and a cure for AIDS

Poster presentation on MPTs
Presented at Microbicides 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Strategic Health Resources re HRES 1179 Small Biotechnology Innovation

United Nations Population Fund HIV/AIDS Publications

Research

Family planning: the essential link to achieving all eight Millennium Development Goals
Willard Cates
Contraception. 2010 Jun;81(6):460-1. Epub 2010 Feb 10.

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