Characteristics of HIV-infected pregnant women in the Bahamas
| Autor: | Gray H, Gomez Mp, Major C, Stanley E. Read, Bain Rm |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Adult Jamaica Marijuana Abuse Adolescent Bahamas Substance-Related Disorders Immunology Population HIV Infections HIV Antibodies law.invention Condoms Age Distribution Condom Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) law Pregnancy Risk Factors Virology Prevalence Immunology and Allergy Seroprevalence Medicine Humans Syphilis Risk factor Pregnancy Complications Infectious Sida education education.field_of_study biology Marital Status business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Incidence Smoking virus diseases biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Haiti United States Parity Family planning Crack Cocaine Educational Status Female business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes and human retrovirology : official publication of the International Retrovirology Association. 12(4) |
| ISSN: | 1077-9450 |
| Popis: | The Commonwealth of the Bahamas has one of the highest rates of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the English-speaking Caribbean. A seroprevalence study of pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in New Providence in 1990-91 showed that of 3914 pregnant women tested 2.9% were human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected. Women born in the Bahamas constituted 79.2% of the women tested; 17.7% were born in Haiti. The rate of HIV infection was 2.5% in the Bahamian women as compared with 4.5% in those born in Haiti. The highest incidence was in women aged 25-34 years and in women who had multiple pregnancies. There was a significant association with a history of crack cocaine use by the Bahamian women. There was also a significant association between a lack of education and HIV infection in this group. There was a lower rate of condom use among women with less education and also among women in common-law relationships but the association of lack of condom use and HIV infection did not reach statistical significance. (authors) |
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