Africa: Aids and sexual and reproductive rights

AIDS prevention efforts and initiatives to support sexual and reproductive health would seem to be natural allies. Why is it then that projects to advance these causes so often proceed in isolation of each other? This question took centre stage recently at ‘Countdown 2015: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All', a three-day conference in London. The meeting, held under the auspices of the International Planned Parenthood Federation and other civic groups, analysed the extent to which goals agreed at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) had been implemented.