Vaginal delivery has been recommended for more than ten years for women living with HIV (WLWH) with good virological control. However, in Europe most WLWH still deliver by cesarean section (CS). Our aim was to assess the rate of vaginal delivery and the indications for CS in WLWH over 20 years in a setting of low overall CS rate.
This was a retrospective study of all WLWH delivering in Finland 1993-2013. We identified the women by combining national health registers and extracted data from patient files.
The study comprised 212 women with 290 deliveries. Over 35% of the women delivered several children during the study years. During 2000-2013, with consistent viral load monitoring, 80.0% showed HIV viral loads
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Cites: HIV Med. 2017 Jul;18(6):440-443 PMID 28000379