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. 2018 May 10;15:76. doi: 10.1186/s12978-018-0513-8

Table 1.

Characteristics of pregnant women infected with HIV at CAISM/UNICAMP from 2000 to 2015

Characteristics n Median (%)
Age (years) 793 28 (13–46)
Parity 793 1 (0–9)
Schooling years (n = 769)
  < 8 468 60.9
 8–11 yrs. 248 32.2
  > 12 39 5.1
 No schooling 14 1.8
Ethnicity: White 485 61.2
HIV diagnosis (n = 789)
 Prior to pregnancy 489 62.5
 During pregnancy 294 37.5
In use of ART at conception (n = 787) 217 27.6
In use of Efavirenz at conception (n = 793) 81 10.2
Planned pregnancy (n = 382) 98 25.7
Heterosexual transmission (n = 408) 380 93.1
Opportunistic disease during pregnancy (n = 785) 32 4.1
First CD4 median (cel/ml) 734 444 (3–1915)
Peripartum CD4 median (cel/ml) 175 552 (5–2164)
Median time of ART use (days) 410 152.5 (4–292)
Peripartum Viral Load < 50 (copies/ml) (n = 732) 432 58.9
CDC classification (n = 758)
 1 227 29.9
 2 391 51.6
 3 140 18.5
Coinfections during pregnancy (n = 787) 667 84.8
Obstetrics complications (n = 792) 417 52.7
ART adherence during prenatal care 649 84.3
Changed ART (n = 776) 149 19.2
Premature rupture of membranes (n = 773) 121 15.7
Labor (n = 447) 188 42.1
Intravenous AZT (n = 775) 735 94.8
Antiretroviral regimens during pregnancy (n = 793)
 None 15 1.9
 Monotherapy with AZT 23 2.9
 NRTI + NRTI 11 1.4
 NRTI + NRTI + NVP 138 17
 NRTI + NRTI + NFV 135 17
 NRTI + NRTI + LPV/R 428 54
 Regimens with other PI 40 5
 NRTI + NRTI + EFV 3 0.4
TOTAL 793 100

ART antiretroviral therapy, AZT zidovudine, NRTI nucleos(t)ide reverse transcriptase inhibitors, NNRTI non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, NVP nevirapine, EFV efavirenz, PI protease inhibitor, NFV nelfinavir, LPV lopinavir, R ritonavir, CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention