Results
One hundred and five out of 109 HIV-infected pregnant women were included in the present study. Four patients were excluded because of twin pregnancy (n=2) and major thalassemia disease (n=2). With the mean age of 27.6 ± 5.8 years, the majority of patients in this study were of low socioeconomic status. The prevalence of anemia was 41% (95% confidence interval = 32.0-50.5). Sixty-one percent of HIV-infected pregnant women were first detected as such in the current pregnancy. The rate of participants who attended at antenatal care (ANC) clinic was 81%. Eighty-seven percent of them were received AZT-based HAART regimen during ANC. Regarding to immunological AIDS defining illness, 11 out of 96 participants (11.5%) had CD4 count less than 200 cells/μL and 11 out of 55 participants (20%) had viral load ≥ 400 copies/ml. Fifteen of 27 (55.5%) had positive result for the urine amphetamine test, as shown in Table 1.