Prevalence of HIV among women entering labor who accepted or declined voluntary counseling and testing
| Autor: | Robert Maupin, Gerhard Theron, D. Heather Watts, Russell B. Van Dyke, Linda M. Styer, David Shapiro, Jeanne Louw, Mae Cababasay, Marc Bulterys |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Voluntary Programs
Voluntary counseling and testing Population Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) HIV Infections medicine.disease_cause Article South Africa Nursing Pregnancy Seroepidemiologic Studies Prevalence Humans Medicine Childbirth Seroprevalence Prospective Studies Pregnancy Complications Infectious education Prospective cohort study education.field_of_study business.industry virus diseases Obstetrics and Gynecology General Medicine medicine.disease Female business Developed country Demography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 120:141-143 |
| ISSN: | 0020-7292 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijgo.2012.07.029 |
| Popis: | To assess whether there was a difference in HIV seroprevalence between eligible women who declined and those who agreed to participate in a study of voluntary counseling and testing among women entering labor with unknown HIV status in South Africa.Anonymous cord blood specimens were collected-as dried blood spots-from all women approached for participation in a cluster-randomized trial. No patient identifiers were included on the cord blood specimens. The dried blood spots were analyzed for HIV antibody via enzyme immunoassay and western blotting.Of 7238 women screened for study participation, 1041 (14.4%) had undocumented HIV status; of these women, 542 were eligible for inclusion and 343 enrolled. Based on 513 evaluable samples, the overall seroprevalence was 13.3% (95% confidence interval [CI], 10.4-16.5), which was similar to the 13.1% (95% CI, 9.7-17.2) seroprevalence among the 343 enrolled women.Seroprevalence among eligible women was similar to that among enrolled women, which indicates that study participation did not select for a group with an HIV seroprevalence substantially different from that among women who declined to enroll. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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