Trends of and factors associated with live-birth and abortion rates among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about fertility choices and pregnancy outcome rates among HIV-infected women in the current combination antiretroviral treatment era.

Objective

We sought to describe trends and factors associated with live-birth and abortion rates among HIV-positive and high-risk HIV-negative women enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study in the United States.

Study design

We analyzed longitudinal data collected from Oct. 1, 1994, through Sept. 30, 2012, through the Women's Interagency HIV Study. Age-adjusted rates per 100 person-years live births and induced abortions were calculated by HIV serostatus over 4 time periods. Poisson mixed effects models containing variables associated with live births and abortions in bivariable analyses (P < .05) generat

SUBMITTER: Haddad LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5182149 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature