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Providing counselling and voluntary testing for HIV in pregnancy-related services is easier said than done. While such services are clearly desirable wherever interventions to prevent HIV infection in infants and sex partners of pregnant women can be offered, they will add to the cost of antenatal and reproductive health services.

This section of the document considers what is necessary to provide such services, and makes recommendations about staff training, counselling options and test types. It tries to focus on the feasible, rather than the ideal.