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. 2016 May;16(5):546–555. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00484-3

Table 3.

Number of women and infants reporting unsolicited adverse events and serious adverse events

HIV-infected, low CD4 cell count (90 women and 91 infants) HIV-infected, high CD4 cell count (89 women and 88 infants) HIV-uninfected (90 women and 87 infants)
Women
Any adverse event 67 (74%) 68 (76%) 70 (78%)
Adverse event possibly related to vaccine 6 (7%) 12 (13%) 21 (23%)
Serious adverse event* 25 (28%) 28 (31%) 29 (32%)
Adverse event leading to participant withdrawing from the trial 0 1 (1%) 0
Medically attended adverse event 42 (47%) 44 (49%) 49 (54%)
Death 0 1 (1%) 0
Infants
Any adverse event 37 (41%) 43 (49%) 37 (43%)
Adverse event possibly related to vaccine 0 2 (2%) 1 (1%)
Serious adverse event* 17 (19%) 16 (18%) 16 (18%)
Adverse event leading to participant withdrawing from the trial 4 (4%) 2 (2%) 2 (2%)
Medically attended adverse event 21 (23%) 29 (33%) 21 (24%)
Death 4 (4%) 2 (2%) 2 (2%)
*

No serious adverse events were deemed to be at least possibly related to vaccination.

See appendix for details of deaths.