HIV Antibody Seroprevalence and Determinants Amongst Antenatal Clients in a Tertiary Hospital in the Niger Delta
| Autor: | E L Kotingo, Allagoa D.O.B. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Pregnancy biology business.industry Cross-sectional study Public health 010102 general mathematics Psychological intervention medicine.disease 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Promiscuity Family medicine Pandemic biology.protein Medicine Seroprevalence 030212 general & internal medicine 0101 mathematics Antibody business |
| Zdroj: | European Scientific Journal, ESJ. 14:300 |
| ISSN: | 1857-7431 1857-7881 |
| Popis: | Background: The pandemicity of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has continued to be a ‘medical quagmire,’ one of the most serious global catastrophe and public health problem that plagues the world today. Objectives: To determine the seroprevalence and clinico-epidemiological correlates of HIV infection in pregnancy. Methodology: This is a descriptive cross sectional study. Two hundred and twenty (220) consecutive healthy pregnant women attending the antenatal booking clinic of the hospital who met the inclusion criteria were recruited. Data was collected via a questionnaire. Data entry and analysis was done using SPSS (statistical package forsocial sciences) 22 statistical package (SPSS Inc., Illinois, U.S.A). P value less than 0.05 was taken as being significant. Results: Of the 220 women, 4.6% (n=10) were seropositive for HIV antibodies. Multiple sexual partners was the significant risk factors for HIV seropositivity (p0.05). Conclusion: The high endemicity of HIV infection in this study justifies the need for routine screening in pregnancy to identify and institute treatment of the infection promptly as this will reduce the mother to child transmission of the virus. Sex education on the dangers of multiple sexual partners or sexual promiscuity, availability of barrier methods of contraception and patronage, more efforts/interventions by relevant agencies, high sense of vigilance amongst others are very vital to curtailing this global pandemic in our society. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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