Conclusion
This study has confirmed the link between HIV
infection and adverse obstetric and neonatal
outcomes of spontaneous abortion, low birth
weight, prematurity and perinatal death using a
large population of HIV positive women and
methodology that took into consideration the
weakness of the previous studies. The mother to
child transmission of HIV infection rate of 0.99%
showed that it is possible to achieve MTCT rate
less than 1 % in our setting. Severe
Immunosuppression and presence of opportunistic
infections were the factors found to be
independently associated with poor obstetric and
neonatal outcome in this study.