Implications of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV among Infected Pregnant Women and their Infants attending a PMTCT ARV Clinic in Ibadan, Nigeria

Autor:	Oloke J. K, Salami O.L, A S Bakarey, E K Oladipo, Afolabi A. Y, O J Akinyemi
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Pregnancy Mother to child transmission Transmission (medicine) Obstetrics business.industry Birth weight Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virus diseases General Medicine Wbc count medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause medicine Parity (mathematics) business Viral load
Zdroj:	Asian Pacific Journal of Health Sciences. 6:132-139
ISSN:	2349-0659 2350-0964
DOI:	10.21276/apjhs.2019.6.1.20
Popis:	Background: Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) is a major means through which HIV infected pregnant mothers pass the virus to their infants. This study aimed to assess the implications of MTCT of HIV among infected Pregnant Women and their Infants.Methods:60 consenting HIV infected pregnant women attending a PMTCT ARV clinic in Ibadan, were followed up for eighteen months. Data were captured using structured questionnaire and analyzed to identify associations. Results: The mother’s age range was 24-41 years with a mean of 32.9 years, while the infant’s median age was 35 days. 32 (72.7%) of them were females with mean birth weight of 3.10 Kg. MTCT of HIV was 4.5% (2/44). Majority of the respondents were of parity 1 (22.7%) and parity 2 (27.3%) and are in monogamous marriage (81.8%), while predominant religion and occupation were Christianity (59.1%) and Trading (56.8%). Viral load was negatively correlated with hemoglobin (r=-0.334), lymphocyte (r=-0.188), and neutrophil (- 0.151) but positively correlated with WBC count (r=0.141). However, between pregnancy and birth CD4 count increased from 503 to 716 (p
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