Tanzania: WHO Reacts Over Birth Control Jabs

Dar es Salaam — World Health Organisation (WHO) experts are set to discuss new medical research findings suggesting that a widely used birth control injection increases the risk of HIV infection among users and their partners.A WHO conference scheduled for next January will determine if countries should continue using the popular hormonal injection Depo Provera after it was linked to the spread of HIV, the virus that causes Aids.

"We are going to be re-evaluating WHO's clinical recommendations on contraceptive use in various countries," said Mary Lyn Gaffield, an epidemiologist in the World Health Organisation's department of reproductive health and research.

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