Preconception Counseling for Women and Men Living with HIV:
Family Planning and Planning a Family
Karen Palmore Beckerman, MD
Director, Outpatient High Risk Obstetric Clinics and Antepartum Services, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center
Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
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Karen Palmore Beckerman has been working in the Bronx for the past ten years caring for pregnant women with HIV and AIDS, as Director of High Risk Obstetrics at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center and also as medical director of the Positive Perinatal Health Program in the hospital’s Center for Comprehensive Care. From 1994-2001 she was the Director of the Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center at San Francisco General Hospital. In 1998, at the International AIDS Society Congress in Geneva, she and her team were the first to report the absence of mother to child transmission among 52 women living with HIV and AIDS who were monitored with viral load testing and treated with protease inhibitors during pregnancy. Dr Beckerman has been a member of the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry since 1999 and the Editorial Board of JAIDS and other journals, as well as review panels and data safety monitoring boards at the National Institutes of Health. She has lectured widely on preconception care, use of medications in pregnancy, and the safety and benefits of maternal antiretroviral therapy.
At the completion of this educational session, learners will:
- Understand the importance of integrating reproductive health counseling into primary AND subspecialty care.
- Be aware of common gaps in knowledge about HIV, HCV, HBV and reproductive health among clients and caregivers alike.
- Know how to assess, understand and counsel your client regarding her or his reproductive aspirations and fund of knowledge, with sensitivity and efficiency during a routine visit.
This PRN CME activity is funded in part by unrestricted educational grants from:
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Merck & Co, and ViiV Healthcare.
