Seroprevalence of human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) antibodies in a family-planning population

Spence, M.R.; Robbins, S.M.; Polansky, M.; Schable, C.A.

Sexually Transmitted Diseases 18(3): 143-145

1991


ISSN/ISBN: 0148-5717
PMID: 1948510
DOI: 10.1097/00007435-199107000-00003
Document Number: 316906
Blind testing of 643 women who attended an inner-city hospital family-planning clinic showed 8 (1.1%) patients to have serum antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1). A retrospective chart survey did not show an association between HIV-1 antibody seropositivity and ethnicity, marital status, education, history of sexually transmitted diseases, drug and/or alcohol use, and contraceptive method. This failure to establish previously reported correlation may be a function of methods, sample size, or reflect a different population. Nonetheless, the seroprevalence the authors found shows that all patients in a family-planning clinic setting should be offered HIV-1 antibody testing.

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