Table 1.
Maternal Characteristics of Pregnant HIV-Infected Women, Antenatal Care and HIV History (n=246)
| Characteristics | No. of Pregnant Women (%) |
P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combined ART (N = 40) | PMTCT During ANC (N = 164) | PMTCT in Labor (N = 42) | ||
| Age: median (min- max) | 30 (19 - 41) | 26 (17 - 39) | 27 (16 - 38) | 0.015 |
| Occupation: | ||||
| Laborer | 31 (77.5%) | 143 (87.2%) | 31 (73.8%) | 0.064 |
| Housewife (not working) | 9 (22.5%) | 21 (12.8%) | 11 (26.2%) | |
| Marital status: Married | 29 (72.5%) | 103 (62.8%) | 16 (38.1%) | 0.003 |
| Number of spouse(s) ever: | ||||
| median (min- max) | 1 (1 - 3) | 1 (1 - 4) | 1 (1 - 2) | 0.17 |
| Firstly detected HIV in the current pregnancy | 52.5% | 89.6% | 86.7% | 0.00 |
| Years of known HIV status: | ||||
| median (min-max) | 2 (1 - 13) | 1 (1 - 9) | 1 (1 - 5) | 0.00 |
| CDC classification | ||||
| A | 37 (92.5%) | 163 (99.4%) | 40 (95.2%) | 0.06 |
| B | 2 (5.0%) | 0 | 1 (2.4%) | |
| C | 1 (2.5%) | 1 (0.6%) | 1 (2.4%) | |
| Median CD4 count | 240 | 361 | 298 | 0.00 |
| (min-max) | (2 - 566) | (25 - 996) | (211 - 376) | |
| Median gestational age at first visit | 19.5 | 19.5 | 38 | 0.00 |
| (weeks)(min-max) | (6 - 36) | (5 - 40) | (8 - 41) | |