Reduced HIV transmission at subsequent pregnancy in a resource-poor setting

Trop Doct. 2011 Jul;41(3):132-5. doi: 10.1258/td.2011.100458. Epub 2011 May 16.

Abstract

Several studies indicate that HIV-infected women continue to have children. We set out to determine the trend in HIV transmission at subsequent pregnancies. From 2002-2003, pregnant women were enrolled in a single dose nevirapine-based Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme. Six years later, women with subsequent children in this cohort were identified and their children's HIV status determined. From 330 identified HIV-infected mothers, 73 had second/subsequent children with HIV results. Of these, nine (12.3%, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.6-20.1%) children were HIV-infected. Of the 73 second children, 51 had older siblings who had been initially enrolled in the study with definitive HIV results with an infection rate of 17/51 (33.3%, 95% CI: 19.9-46.7). About 35% of the women had been on antiretroviral drugs. These results demonstrate lower subsequent HIV transmission rates in women on a national PMTCT programme in a resource-poor setting with the advent of antiretroviral therapy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anti-HIV Agents / administration & dosage
  • Cross-Sectional Studies
  • Female
  • HIV Infections / mortality
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control
  • HIV Infections / transmission*
  • HIV-1
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / prevention & control*
  • Nevirapine / administration & dosage
  • Poverty*
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / drug therapy*
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / virology
  • Program Evaluation
  • Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors / administration & dosage
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Zimbabwe

Substances

  • Anti-HIV Agents
  • Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
  • Nevirapine