Author | Sun, Yuping | |
Author | Hewan-Lowe, Karlene | |
Author | Wu, Qiang | |
Author | Yu, Jiang | |
Author | Guo, Zhiqiu | |
Author | Han, Yali | |
Author | Fan, Yujiang | |
Author | Qin, Xianfang | |
Author | Xu, Ping | |
Author | Bolatihan, Janati | |
Author | Hoshaerbai, Mayinuer | |
Author | Yuan, Luping | |
Author | Hong, Heng | |
Date Accessioned | 2016-06-27T15:33:45Z | |
Date Available | 2016-06-27T15:33:45Z | |
Date of Issue | 2011-11 | |
Identifier (Citation) | The Open AIDS Journal; 5: p. 96-101 | en_US |
ISSN | 1874-6136 | |
Identifier (URI) | http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5748 | |
Description | Objective:
The number of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in China has increased in recent years. HIV screening for pregnant women was performed in a remote area in Xinjiang, as an effort to promote universal HIV screening in pregnant women and to help prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
Methods:
Pregnant women in Burqin and Jeminay Counties in Xinjiang were offered free voluntary HIV screening. Local mid-level medical workers were trained to use Determine® HIV-1/2 kit for HIV screening. All the tested pregnant women signed a consent form, received HIV education material, and participated in an HIV knowledge survey.
Results:
All the 890 pregnant women receiving HIV test had negative result. Among these women, 67.6% were Kazakh and 40.9% were farmers. Survey of HIV knowledge showed that these women's awareness about mother-to-child transmission was limited. The levels of HIV knowledge were related with ethnic background, age, education and profession of the pregnant women.
Conclusion:
The results suggested that HIV infection had not become a significant problem among the pregnant women in this remote area of Xinjiang, but continued efforts to improve the awareness of HIV, especially the knowledge about mother-to-child transmission of HIV, in pregnant women were needed. | en_US |
Related URI | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3242400/ | en_US |
Subject | Universal HIV screen | en_US |
Subject | pregnant women | en_US |
Subject | mother-to-child transmission | en_US |
Title | HIV Screening and Awareness Survey for Pregnant Women in a Remote Area in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China | en_US |
Type | Article | en_US |
Identifier (PMID) | pmc3242400 | en_US |
Identifier (DOI) | 10.2174/1874613601105010096 | |
Journal Name | The Open AIDS Journal | en_US |
Journal Volume | 5 | en_US |
Article Pages | 96-101 | en_US |