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Birth control counseling for HIV seropositive pregnant women
Author(s) -
PiyaAnant M.,
Atisook R.,
Ratananikom P.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1016/0020-7292(95)02500-c
Subject(s) - medicine , pregnancy , obstetrics , gynecology , family planning , abortion , birth control , sterilization (economics) , pill , population , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , family medicine , research methodology , nursing , genetics , environmental health , monetary economics , economics , foreign exchange market , biology , foreign exchange
Testing for HIV antibody at the antenatal clinic in Siriraj Hospital started on 1 July 1991. It was found that the percentage of HIV seropositive pregnant women rapidly increased from 1.2% in 1992 to 1.9% in 1993. During those 2 years, 487 seropositive women were admitted for delivery or abortion; 23.8% were adolescents and 47.0%, young adults. Prevention of HIV transmission from mother‐to‐baby was birth control; 95 women (19.5%) chose to abort their pregnancy. After termination of all pregnancies by abortion or delivery, 83% requested sterilization, 12.9% accepted Norplant, 1.8% the pill and only 2.3% refused anything at all. Condoms were used regularly for prevention of HIV infection by 29.4% of men although Thai men generally do not accept them for birth control. Seropositive Norplant users had more bleeding than general Norplant users but treatments were the same.