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tive use <strong>and</strong> the number of unwanted <strong>and</strong> unintended HIV-positive births. (Reynolds etal., 2008). (Gray V) (pregnancy, contraception, PMTCT, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia,South Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rw<strong>and</strong>a, Tanzania, Ug<strong>and</strong>a, Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria,Guyana, Haiti <strong>and</strong> Vietnam)A study by the US CDC in Ug<strong>and</strong>a found that unwanted pregnancies may account<strong>for</strong> almost a quarter of all HIV-positive infants in Ug<strong>and</strong>a. “Satisfying family planningneeds should be seen as an additional key PMTCT strategy. Estimation of the contributionof unmet family planning needs was done through Spectrum, a UNAIDS/WHOdemographics software by entering the official national adult HIV prevalence; ARVuptake <strong>for</strong> PMTCT; total fertility rate <strong>and</strong> the wanted total fertility rate (the total fertilityrate after removing unwanted fertility). In 2006, the authors estimated 100,900 womenwith HIV were pregnant with 19,200 vertical transmissions, 44,900 children needingART <strong>and</strong> 16,700 pediatric AIDS deaths. PMTCT averted an estimated 1,200 verticalinfections, 700 children needing ART <strong>and</strong> 2,000 AIDS deaths. The projected scaleup from 2006 to 2015 of PMTCT based on single dose nevirapine may avert 23,100deaths, whereas unmet family planning needs may account <strong>for</strong> a projected 33,800 infections;4,700 children needing ART in 2015 alone; <strong>and</strong> 20,500 deaths (Hladik et al.,2008; Hladik et al., 2009). (Gray V) (pregnancy, contraception, family planning, PMTCT,Ug<strong>and</strong>a)212 CHAPTER 9 SAFE MOTHERHOOD AND PREVENTION OF VERTICAL TRANSMISSION

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