Incident pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes among HIV-infected women in Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Objective: To describe pregnancy outcomes among HIV-infected women and examine factors associated with live birth among those receiving and not receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART).

Methods: The present analysis included women with HIV from Uganda and Zimbabwe who participated in a prospective cohort study during 2001-2009. Incident pregnancies and pregnancy outcomes were recorded quarterly.

Incidence of major clinical outcomes in a cohort of Ugandan and Zimbabwean women with HIV-1 infection followed from seroconversion.

We conducted a prospective cohort study of 306 HIV-1-infected women, followed from seroconversion for median 6.4 years in Uganda (UG) and Zimbabwe (ZM) to describe the incidence of major clinical outcomes (MCOs), defined as World Health Organization stage 4 conditions and any tuberculosis (TB). In Uganda, 19 MCOs occurred in 13 participants at median 4.

Association of cervical SIL and HIV-1 infection among Zimbabwean women in an HIV/STI prevention study.

A cross-sectional study was conducted on women attending family planning clinics in Harare, Zimbabwe to determine the prevalence of cervical neoplasia among HIV-1 positive women relative to an HIV-1 negative control group. Five hundred and fifty four women were recruited and the prevalence of HIV-1 was 36.8%.