Reproductive Health and Wellness

Incidence and Predictors of Pregnancy among Women on ART in Debre Markos Referral Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: A Five-Year Retrospective Cohort Study

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Globally, death of women due to HIV/AIDS related causes during pregnancy or within 42 days after pregnancy was estimated to be
37,000. In Ethiopia, 42,900 pregnant women living with HIV gave birth in the year 2011. This study was aimed to assess incidence
and predictors of pregnancy among women on ART inDebreMarkos ReferralHospital,Northwest Ethiopia. A retrospective cohort
study was conducted using data recorded from September 2011 to August 2015. Data was extracted from February to March, 2016,
from 1,239 records and analyzed using SPSS version 16. A Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to estimate the probabilities of
being pregnant.The Cox proportional hazards model was done and results were expressed using hazard ratios with 95% CI. A total
of 1,239 women on ART were included in the study. The incidence of pregnancy was 49.2 per 1,000 person-years. Living in rural,
being married, being widowed, being unemployed, and having

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: ., 2017

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HIV/AIDS
Predictors of Pregnancy
Women on ART
Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS)
Maternal Death
Positive Mother

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