[Prevalence of the attempts to stop pregnancy and associated factors in a marginal suburban community in Lima-Peru, 2006].

Objectives: To estimate the prevalence for the attempts to stop pregnancy among women with history of previous pregnancies, and to determine the factors associated.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed during 2006. Samples included 1057 women with background of pregnancy, living in Pamplona Alta, selected by a systematic random sampling.

[HEPATITIS E IgG ANTIBODIES SEROPREVALENCE IN A PERUVIAN RISK GROUP].

We study the seroprevalence and risk factors on hepatitis E virus infection in 191 healthy subjects, which are workers of the drinking water and sewerage system of Lima city, and the main activity of them was to handle sewage at present or early past. We tested for IgG hepatitis E antibodies (anti-HEV IgG) a two recombinant antigen based enzyme immunoassay (Abbott IL USA).Anti-HEV IgG were positive in 20 subjects (10.