Settembre 2002 - Volume XXI - numero 7

Medico e Bambino


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Studio sull’epidemiologia dell’infezione da HIV e sulle malattie a trasmissione sessuale in una consulta prenatale a Luanda

Anna Rita Centonze

Hospital “Divina Providéncia” - Golf 2-a, Municipio do Kilamba Klaxi- Luanda, Angola; Dipartimento Pediatrico “Aiuto Materno”, Palermo

STUDY ON EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HIV INFECTION AND SEXUALLY TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES AT A PRENATAL CONSULTING ROOM IN LUANDA (ANGOLA)

Key words: HIV prevalence, Epidemiology, Angola, Mother-newborn transmission

This study was performed on 1000 pregnant women who consecutively referred to two Health Units in a poor district of Luanda (Angola), inhabited for at least 50% by refugees from rural areas because of civil war. It was a serological research aimed at determining the prevalence of 3 sexually transmissible diseases (syphilis, type B hepatitis and HIV infection) with the following goals: a) to help affected women and their children; b) to extend the knowledge on the distribution of these diseases in the Angolan population; c) to evaluate the opportunities for an action aimed at stopping the vertical transmission of AIDS. The prevalence of syphilis was 1.7%; the prevalence of type B hepatitis was 8.5%; and the prevalence of HIV infection was 1.2%. In the light of this last figure, which was much lower than expected, an action aimed at stopping the vertical virus transmission can be realistically conceived.

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Studio sull’epidemiologia dell’infezione da HIV e sulle malattie a trasmissione sessuale in una consulta prenatale a Luanda
Medico e Bambino 2002;21(7):459-460 https://www.medicoebambino.com/?id=0207_459.pdf


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