Offering HIV testing to pregnant women increased test uptake but not anxiety

Test offering, not additional information, may increase HIV testing uptake in a knowledgeable population.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate patient HIV knowledge and testing experience and assess the effect of an HIV informational handout on HIV testing propensity. DESIGN Cross sectional, descriptive techniques were employed to assess demographics, HIV knowledge and HIV testing experience. A randomized controlled trial was performed to determine if an HIV/AIDS information sheet influenced testing propensity...

Uptake and acceptability of antenatal HIV testing: randomised controlled trial of different methods of offering the test.

OBJECTIVE To determine the uptake and acceptability of different methods of a universal offer of voluntary HIV testing to pregnant women. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial involving four combinations of written and verbal communication, followed by the direct offer of a test. The control group received no information and no direct offer of a test, although testing was available on request. ...

HIV Testing: Pregnant Women and Newborns

Genotype testing in HIV-infected pregnant women

Results The results showed a majority of cases of non-B subtypes: subtype G 42%, subtype B 24%, subtype C 14%, CRF02_AG 12%, subtypes A, D, CRFO3_BG and CRF01_AE 2%. Comparative study of the different subtypes showed epidemiological differences: •Subtype G: 81,6% of women of Portuguese origin, 14,4% of African origin, with 76% of infection acquired by sexual transmission and 23,8% by intravenou...

HIV testing of pregnant women and newborns.

African-American women are at particularly high risk for acquiring HIV/AIDS. Although only 39% of the total population of women in Chicago are African-American, they represent 73% of the HIV-infected women in Chicago. In addition, the number of HIV-infected pregnant African-American women is also increasing. The rate of HIV infection in AfricanAmerican women of childbearing age doubled from 0.4...