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Background: Foetus can be infected by HIV-positive pregnant women. A research to assess the seroprevalence and socio-demographic parameters of antenatal pregnant women in a pre-tertiary health facility, Uyo was carried out  Methods: Standard serological and statistical methods were employed.  Results: As we previously presented in a conference: “A total of 184 pregnant women were screened and thirty-seven (20.1%) of them were HIV-positive. The ages of all the women ranged from 17-44 years, out of which the age group 35-39 years had the highest prevalence (41.2%) of HIV-positive women, followed by 25-29years (24.4%) while &lt;20 years and ≥40years had none. Married pregnant women had the highest overall prevalence of 14.1% while individual who registered in the hospital as divorcees had highest prevalence (70%) within group. Working pregnant women were more affected (21.9%) than unemployed counterparts (17.8%), just as the educated were more affected (23.9%) than the uneducated (17.9%). None of the pregnant women was undergoing prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programs. Unmarried youth, underage and those who registered as divorcee were more than the pregnant women”.  Conclusions: There is need to further emphasize HIV screening among pregnant women in developing countries to commence PMTCT promptly. As we also concluded in a conference presentation, “the urgent need for PMTCT programme in this study area becomes obvious due adverse maternal and foetal outcome associated with HIV positive participants.”

Retroviral seroprevalence and sociodemographic parameters of the ante-natal pregnant women in a pre-tertiary health facility