ArticleAIDS care2018
HIV Infection and risk of postpartum infection, complications and mortality in rural Uganda.
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- Risk factors for postpartum maternal mortality and hospital readmission in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Pooled it
- Assessing patient-level risk factors for evidence-based early diagnosis of maternal sepsis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Obstetric and newborn outcomes of mothers with and without HIV infection in Anaka general hospital in Northern Uganda.PloS one · 2025Article
- Prevalence of Maternal Fever and Associated Factors among Postnatal Women at Kawempe National Referral Hospital, Uganda: A Preliminary Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Does Maternal HIV Infection Affect Neonatal Outcomes?Current HIV research · 2024Article
- Changes in Immune Activation During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period in Treated HIV Infection.Open forum infectious diseases · 2021Article
- Determinants and aetiologies of postpartum pyrexia; a retrospective analysis in a tertiary health facility in the Littoral Region of Cameroon.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Article
- Incidence of postpartum infection, outcomes and associated risk factors at Mbarara regional referral hospital in Uganda.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2018Article
- Risk Factors for Vaginal Colonization and Relationship between Bacterial Vaginal Colonization and In-Hospital Outcomes in Women with Obstructed Labor in a Ugandan Regional Referral Hospital.International journal of microbiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
HIV infection may increase risk of postpartum infection and infection-related mortality. We hypothesized that postpartum infection incidence and attributable mortality in Mbarara, Uganda would be higher in HIV-infected than HIV-uninfected women. We performed a prospective cohort study of 4231 women presenting to a regional referral hospital in 2015 for delivery or postpartum care. All febrile or hypothermic women, and a subset of randomly selected normothermic women were followed during hospitalization and with 6-week postpartum phone interviews. The primary outcome was in-hospital postpartum infection. Secondary outcomes included in-hospital complications (mortality, re-operation, intensive care unit transfer, need for imaging or blood transfusion) and 6-week mortality. We performed multivariable regression analyses to estimate adjusted differences in each outcome by HIV serostatus. Mean age was 25.2 years and 481 participants (11%) were HIV-infected. Median CD4+ count was 487 (IQR 325, 696) cells/mm
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