Adverse birth outcome case definitions associated with maternal HIV and antiretroviral drug use in pregnancy: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The global antiretroviral therapy era has led to a decline in the number of children newly acquiring HIV and an increase in the number of children who are HIV-exposed and uninfected (HEU). This shift has prompted extensive research focussing on health and survival outcomes of children who are HEU. Study findings, particularly in relation to adverse birth outcomes, have been disparate, inconclusive and have not always been generalisable. Thus, the objectives of this scoping review are (1) to identify and extract definitions used for the adverse birth outcome terms 'low birth weight', 'small for gestational age', 'stillbirth' and 'preterm birth'; (2) to compare the characteristics of studies from which birth outcome definitions were extracted by (a) temporal periods and

SUBMITTER: Dube KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10410838 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature