A Short Report in Infectious Diseases of Poverty finds that HIV-negative Gabonese pregnant women are more often infected with STIs than HIV-positive pregnant women. It may be due to better access to sexual healthcare education for HIV positive women.
indicates the presence of positive confounding, posed mainly by sexual risk factors. Thus, the above-mentioned hypothesis that HIV-positivity contributed to less exposure to sexual risk factors in our study population is indirectly supported by the magnitude of this adjusted. The fact that HIV-negative women had an increased chance of being infected with STIs might be explained by the lack of sexual health care programmes targeted at this population.
Despite the strong evidence for an association between HIV-positivity and lower crude odds of concomitant STIs , this result should be viewed with caution. Maternal age in the HIV-negative sub-sample was lower than in the HIV-positive sample. Studies have revealed that a younger maternal age may increase the risk of getting STIs and may underline the findings described in this study [
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