Re: fertility in HIV positive women

[Guest guest]

AIDS Forum

This is response to study quoted.

1. " Dr. Paranjape is obviously not the only study that has looked at the

association of HIV and fertility. However, there is still ambiguity about the

causal effect of HIV infection on fertility of infected women. "

2. While most studies suggest that women with HIV infection have lower fertility

[ for example Zaba & Gregson and Ross and others ] and higher incidence of

adverse pregnancy outcome "

In my observation over 10 years I have not obseved any adverse outcome in HIV

positive women, The number of HIV positive women coming with pregnancy (that too

multigravida) are many more than those positive women coming for infertility.

Thus clearly indicate that most infected in early age do not have effect of

fertility.

Deepti

Deepti Dayanand Dongaonkar

E-mail: <ddongaonkar@...>