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Fathers and HIV: considerations for families by Lorraine Sherr is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
## Background Fathers are intricately bound up in all aspects of family life. This review examines fathers in the presence of HIV: from desire for a child, through conception issues, to a summary of the knowledge base on fathers within families affected by HIV. ## Methods A mixed‐methods approach is used, given the scarcity of literature. A review is provided on paternal and male factors in relation to the desire for a child, HIV testing in pregnancy, fatherhood and conception, fatherhood and drug use, paternal support and disengagement, fatherhood and men who have sex with men (MSM), and paternal effects on child development in the presence of HIV. Literature‐based reviews and systematic review techniques are used to access available data Primary data are reported on the issue of parenting for men who have sex with men. ## Results Men with HIV desire fatherhood. This is established in studies from numerous countries, although fatherhood desires may be lower for HIV‐positive men than HIV‐negative men. Couples do not always agree, and in some studies, male desires for a child are greater than those of their female partners. Despite reduced fertility, support and services, many proce
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- Author
- Lorraine Sherr
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley and Sons Inc.; London: BioMed Central, 2008-2012; Geneva: International AIDS Society, 2012-; Wiley; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; International AIDS Society (ISSN 1758-2652)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781758265217
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)