Association between fertility and HIV status: what implications for HIV estimates?
Open Access
- 11 September 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1) , 309
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-309
Abstract
Most estimates of HIV prevalence have been based on sentinel surveillance of pregnant women which may either under-estimate or over-estimate the actual prevalence in adult female population. One situation which can lead to either an underestimate or an overestimate of the actual HIV prevalence is where there is a significant difference in fertility rates between HIV-positive and HIV-negative women. Our aim was to compare the fertility rates of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in Cameroon in order to make recommendations on the appropriate adjustments when using antenatal sentinel data to estimate HIV prevalenceKeywords
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