Firth Jacqueline, Jeyaseelan L, Christina Sheeba, Vonbara Venisa, Jeyaseelan Visalaksi, Elan Sujitha, Abraham Sulochana, Joseph Inbakumar, David Shoba, Cu-Uvin Susan, Lurie Mark, Wanke Christine, Lionel Jessie
Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic). 2010 Jul-Aug;9(4):206-13. doi: 10.1177/1545109710371132. Epub 2010 Jun 7.
Despite increasing availability of HIV-1 testing, education, and methods to prevent transmission, Indian women and their children remain at risk of acquiring HIV. We assessed the seroprevalence and awareness about HIV among pregnant women presenting to a private tertiary care hospital in South India.
Seroprevalence was determined via enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing, and questionnaires were analyzed using chi-square statistics and odds ratios to look for factors associated with HIV positivity.
A total of 7956 women who presented for antenatal care were interviewed. Fifty-one women of the 7235 women who underwent HIV testing (0.7%) were found to be HIV positive. Awareness of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV (64%), HIV transmission through breast milk (42%), and prevention of MTCT (13%) was low.
There is a need to educate South Indian women about HIV to give them information and the means to protect themselves and their unborn children from acquiring HIV.
尽管艾滋病毒-1检测、教育及预防传播方法的可及性不断提高，但印度妇女及其子女仍面临感染艾滋病毒的风险。我们评估了在印度南部一家私立三级护理医院就诊的孕妇中艾滋病毒的血清流行率及知晓情况。
通过酶联免疫吸附测定（ELISA）检测确定血清流行率，并使用卡方统计和比值比分析问卷，以寻找与艾滋病毒阳性相关的因素。
共有7956名前来接受产前护理的妇女接受了访谈。在接受艾滋病毒检测的7235名妇女中，有51名（0.7%）被发现艾滋病毒呈阳性。对艾滋病毒母婴传播（MTCT）（64%）、通过母乳传播艾滋病毒（42%）以及预防母婴传播（13%）的知晓率较低。
有必要对印度南部妇女进行艾滋病毒教育，为她们提供信息以及保护自己和未出生子女免受艾滋病毒感染的方法。
