Prenatal Care and HIV Screening

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To the Editor.— The most common risk factors for women with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States are intravenous drug abuse and heterosexual contact with persons at risk.1Some women, however, are unaware that their sexual partners belong to a high-risk group. For these reasons, we offered screening for antibodies to HIV to all women presenting for prenatal care at our clinic for indigent patients from Dec 12, 1987, to March 12, 1987. Study.— A questionnaire asking for known HIV risk factors was administered. Women were considered seropositive if results of two enzyme immunoassays for antibodies to HIV and a confirmatory Western blot analysis were positive. After counseling and obtaining informed consent, 299 of 302 women were screened. Overall, two (6.7 per 1000) of these women were seropositive. Of 39 women reporting one or more risk factors, one (25.7 per 1000) was seropositive. Of the 250 women

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