Prevalence of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and associated factors in pregnant women in the state of Pará.
Helloyza Halana Fernanda Aquino Pompeu, Lilia Pimenta de Moraes, Camila Cristina Girard Santos and 5 others
PMID 35766751WHAT IT FOUND
At one referral maternity hospital, HIV prevalence among hospitalized pregnant women was 2.39%, and 20.69% of women living with HIV were first diagnosed on admission.
Antenatal care was strongly linked with knowing HIV status.
Key findings
01HIV prevalence among pregnant women hospitalized at the study maternity hospital averaged 2.39% from 2010 to 2019; the lowest annual prevalence was 2.03% in 2011 and the highest was 2.83% in 2019.
0220.69% of pregnant women living with HIV were diagnosed in the Urgency and Emergency Department during admission, were unaware of serological status, and did not undergo ART.
03Bivariate analysis showed a greater correlation between antenatal care and knowledge of HIV serological status, with p = 0.01 E-17.
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What it does not show
The study used secondary medical-record data, so incomplete or missing information could affect the results. The sample was selected for convenience from one referral maternity hospital in Belém, so the findings may not apply to other settings or to all pregnant women in Pará. The prevalence denominator was live births at the study hospital, not all pregnant women in the state. The analysis describes prevalence and associations, not tested interventions or causal effects.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the 2.39% prevalence or the antenatal-care association as proof that more visits prevent HIV transmission. This was a retrospective record review at one referral hospital, so it describes that population and does not establish cause.