HETEROSEXUALLY TRANSMITTED HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS INFECTION AMONG PREGNANT-WOMEN IN A RURAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY
HETEROSEXUALLY TRANSMITTED HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS INFECTION AMONG PREGNANT-WOMEN IN A RURAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm199212103272402
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发表时间:
1992-12-10
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
WITTE, JJ
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ELLERBROCK, TV;LIEB, S;WITTE, JJ
Background. In the United States, an increasing proportion of women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) live in nonmetropolitan areas. Little is known, however, about the risk factors for HIV transmission in women outside large cities.Methods. We interviewed and tested 1082 (99.8 percent) of 1084 consecutive pregnant women who registered for prenatal care at a public health clinic in western Palm Beach County, Florida. This rural agricultural area of about 36,000 people is known to have a high prevalence of HIV infection.Results. The seroprevalence of HIV was 5.1 percent (52 of 1011 women). Black women who were neither Haitian nor Hispanic had the highest rate of infection (8.3 percent [48 of 575]). Only 4 of 1009 women (0.4 percent) reported ever injecting drugs, and the 4 were HIV-sero-negative; however, 14 of 43 users of "crack" cocaine (33 percent) had HIV infection. At prenatal registration, 131 of 983 women (13 percent) tested positive for gonorrhea, chlamydial infection, or syphilis. By multivariate logistic-regression analysis, HIV infection was found to be independently associated with having used crack cocaine (odds ratio, 3.3; P