What We Do

Abortion

Contraception

HIV/STI Prevention

Linking Reproductive Health & HIV

Fellowship

Other

Where We Work

Providers’ perceptions of the diaphragm in Southern Africa and the United States

Ibis staff are working with colleagues at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the University of Zimbabwe, and the Medical Research Council of South Africa to better understand current HIV prevention and contraceptive counseling practice, and assess providers’ opinions of integrating new technologies into their practice in South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe. The study has two phases. In the first phase, we conducted qualitative interviews with 30 providers (nurses and physicians), which included questions about current counseling practice, how counseling differs for different patients (i.e., young women, pregnant women, HIV-positive women), what providers know about current and new HIV prevention technologies under development, and their opinions of the diaphragm as a potential HIV prevention method. We are using the results to develop a survey that will be administered to a random sample of approximately 1,200 providers in each country. With the recent release of the MIRA trial results, we have shifted the focus of the survey to address more specifically contraceptive counseling for HIV-positive women and women at risk of HIV infection. The survey will be fielded in the first half of 2008.

 

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