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Reproductive practices used by HIV infected women in Brazilian city studied

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 28th, 2005

Researchers in Brazil conducted "a cross-sectional study ...in Campinas, Brazil, in HIV infected women to evaluate factors associated with reproductive practices."

A. da Silveira Rossi and coauthors, University Estadual of Campinas, published their findings in the journal Contraception.

"A total of 112 HIV infected women, 13 to 45 years old, with previous sexual experience were included in the study. Three groups were compared: pregnant women aware of their infection before current pregnancy, sterilized women who had made their reproductive choice after serodiagnosis, and women using any reversible contraceptive method," the researchers...

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