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High HIV-1 Incidence in Young Women Masked by Stable Overall Seroprevalence Among Childbearing Women in Kinshasa, Zaïre: Estimating Incidence from Serial Seroprevalence Data

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Journal AIDS
Date 1994 Jun 1
PMID 8086141
Citations 14
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Abstract

Objective: To describe the dynamics of the HIV-1 epidemic in childbearing women in Kinshasa, Zaïre, by estimating incidence from serial seroprevalence studies.

Methods: In 1986 and 1989, 5937 and 4623 pregnant women, respectively, were screened for HIV-1 in Kinshasa. We estimated age-specific incidence from two seroprevalence surveys by using a birth-year cohort analysis and adjusting for differences in mortality and fertility between HIV-1-infected and uninfected women. Mortality and fertility data were measured in a cohort of women recruited from the survey in 1986 and followed until 1989.

Results: While the overall HIV-1 seroprevalence changed little (5.8% in 1986 and 6.5% in 1989; P = 0.17), the prevalence increased in birth-year cohorts of women under 25 years of age in 1989 from 3.2 to 6.2% (P < 0.001), but decreased for women above 25 years of age from 6.9 to 6.7% (P = 0.7). In addition, new HIV infections between 1986 and 1989 were balanced by a higher mortality and lower fertility observed in HIV-infected women. After adjusting for these effects, we estimated an overall 3-year cumulative HIV-1 incidence of 2.8 per 100 uninfected women [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.4-4.2]. The highest incidence, 5.7 per 100 (95% CI, 3.5-8.0), was in women aged 20-24 years in 1989.

Conclusion: Despite an overall relatively stable HIV-1 prevalence in childbearing women in Kinshasa between 1986 and 1989, approximately 40% of all HIV-1 infections detected in the 1989 survey occurred between 1986 and 1989, and 60% occurred in women under 25 years of age in 1989.

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