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Sheldon H. Landesman, MD; Howard L. Minkoff, MD; Anne Willoughby, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1989;261(9):1326-1327.

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The era when human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease will pose a major threat to women's reproductive health no longer looms in the future. Thousands of pregnancies each year, preponderantly among urban minority women, are already complicated by HIV infection. The contribution of their progeny to infant mortality in the nation's inner cities will soon dwarf that of children with other congenital infections such as cytomegalovirus, herpes, or syphilis. In New York City, 1 in 80 births is to an HIV-infected woman.¹ Even if only 1 in 3 of their children eventually dies of HIV infection, that would result in almost 4.3 deaths in each cohort of 1000 births. There were, by comparison, a total of 9.9 infant deaths per 1000 births in the United States last year.² Thus, at a time when HIV is becoming the dominant infection impacting on reproductive health, it is timely that data are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
State University of New York Health Science Center Brooklyn, NY; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Md

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