Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Progress on scaling up integrated services for sexual and reproductive health and HIV

Clare Dickinson, Kathy Attawell & Nel Druce

Volume 87, Number 11, November 2009, 846-851

Table 1. Key international commitments and developments supporting sexual and reproductive health and HIV linkages since 2001

Year Commitment or development
2001 United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, which linked achievement of HIV-prevention targets to delivery of an integrated set of interventions, including antenatal care, HIV testing and counselling, HIV-related care, treatment and support services, and appropriate sexual and reproductive health services across the wider health sector2
2004 Glion Call to action on family planning and HIV/AIDS in women and children,3 which focuses on linkages between family planning and prevention of mother-to-child transmission; and the New York Call to commitment: linking HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health,4 which highlights the public health rationale for integration
2005–2008 G8 commitment to reaching as close as possible universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment services by 2010 including support for integration of HIV interventions with wider health services including maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health and tuberculosis;5 reinforced by the June 2006 United Nations General Assembly high level meeting on AIDS, 2007 and 2008 G8 Summits
2006 Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS,6 which challenged the global health community to forge closer linkages between sexual and reproductive health and HIV through better policy and programme coordination