Being prepared to evaluate pregnancy PrEP
Date
2019-11-27
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International AIDS Society
Abstract
Pregnant and breastfeeding women in high HIV-incidence set-tings are at great risk for HIV-acquisition and stand to benefit tremendously from HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)scale-up [1]. The PrEP Implementation in Young women and Adolescents (PrIYA) programme is to be commended for addressing this challenge by integrating PrEP delivery into routine maternal child health and family planning services in16 clinics in Kisumu County, Kenya. Dettinger and colleagues used data from the PrIYA programme implementation to describe birth (weight and gestational age) and 6-week growth outcomes of infants born to women with and without pregnancy PrEP exposure, concluding that outcomes did not differ by PrEP exposure [2]. However, methodologic limitations of this evaluation challenge interpretation of the comparisons in birth weight, gestational age and 6-week growth outcomes between PrEP-exposed and PrEP-unexposed pregnancies.
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CITATION: Slogrove, A. L. 2019. Being prepared to evaluate pregnancy PrEP. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 22(12). doi:10.1002/jia2.25435
The original publication is available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17582652
The original publication is available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17582652
Keywords
Pre-exposure prophylaxis, HIV infections -- Prevention, Family planning services, Children, Women, Infant, Africa
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Slogrove, A. L. 2019. Being prepared to evaluate pregnancy PrEP. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 22(12). doi:10.1002/jia2.25435