Abstract

BackgroundThe reported data of HIV + pregnant women in Latin America (LA) is scarce. Given the political and social changes that have occurred in recent years, Chile has had to face immigration as a recent phenomenon. Based on this, the objective of this analysis was to determine the baseline characteristics, virological during pregnancy and postpartum, and the impact of immigration on adult women infected with HIVMethodsThe registry of HIV + pregnant women of Fundación Arriarán was analyzed since 2006. The baseline characteristics,undetectability at delivery, vertical transmission and retention were determined.Estimators as mean and median,standard deviation and interquartile range; absolute and relative frequencies were used and for the bivariate analysis the t-test and chi2,Mann–Whitney and Fisher’s exact. For follow-up, the Kaplan–Meier method was used.ResultsA total of 214 pregnancies in 198 HIV + women were included. A 54% of foreigners (of Haitian predominance) was found, 2/3 of the foreigners were enrolled after 2016. A 73% was diagnosed with HIV at the time of pregnancy. Average age was 28.6 years. Baseline CD4 cell count was 396 cel/mm3. A 7.7% were admitted with advanced pregnancy and 4.6% had a history of drug addiction. None of these variables had significant differences between both groups. The variables of gestational age at admission (15 vs. 21; P < 0.001), gestational age at the beginning of therapy (18 vs. 21; P < 0.001), CDC stage and baseline viral load (9750 vs. 644 copies/mL;P < 0.001) were statistically significant between Chileans and foreigners. 58% of the patients achieved undetectability at the time of delivery without differences between both groups. (55% vs. 63%; p0.42) Almost 90% of women with detectable viral load at delivery was less than 1000 copies/mL (88,9%). 93% received full vertical transmission protocol and the prematurity rate was 16.6%. The vertical transmission was 2.6% without differences between nationals and foreigners. In the postpartum follow-up,70% were retained, 73% of them undetectable on the latest follow-up visit.ConclusionDespite the cultural and language limitations, foreign patients maintained a compliance similar to those of Chile, achieving a low transmission rate vertical and good adherence to postpartum controls.Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.

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