The world has finally answered a decades' old question about birth control and HIV risk. What happens now? Find out via Bhekisisa_MG EchoResults SAAIDS2019
are taken as a sign that nothing needs to change for the women and girls that I spoke and worked with while I was on the road. The Echo results don’t mean that Africa’s limited contraceptive choices are okay, just because the most widely used method doesn’t make it easier to contract HIV.
I have always known that Echo needed to prompt action, no matter the results. That’s why I got involved with the trial. When there was a question about whether the study should be done — because some women, some of my comrades, thought we already knew the answer — I stood up for it. I told them we as women deserve high-quality evidence so that we can make the best choices for ourselves.
In rural areas, young women talked about showing up at clinics and being told that they were getting the shot — meaning Depo Provera — no matter what method they’d come for, or wanted. There were also women who turned up at the clinics and found no contraception at all because of We, of course, didn’t need a trial to expose this dire situation and to tell us that new HIV diagnoses in young women are unacceptably high.
The upcoming WHO meeting in Zambia prompted by the Echo results should generate a declaration of commitment to this, along with a commitment from funders to put money into this work and revisit the key milestones across the regions and in countries in one year’s time.
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