Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection among pregnant women in Nigeria: a systematic review

Shuby Puthussery
,
Christian Onyedikachi Ozim
,
Rahini Mahendran
,
Amalan Mahendran

Research Output: Other contribution Other contribution Peer-review

Open access

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 3 Good Health and Well

Abstract

Review objectives What is the prevalence of HIV infection among pregnant women in Nigeria? Searches Relevant healthcare databases such as PubMed (MEDLINE), CINAHL, PsycINFO, Global Health, E-journals, Academic Search Elite, and AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine Database) were searched in addition to author institutional libraries and online resources such as Google Scholar. Google Scholar search showed the first 1000 yielded articles. A combination of text words were used for the search covering the target population and outcome elements such as: - (Human immunodeficiency virus OR HIV OR AIDS) AND (prevalence OR incidence OR epidemiology OR frequency OR occurrence) AND (pregnancy OR pregnant OR prenatal OR antenatal OR perinatal OR maternal) AND Nigeria. Following the rigorous databases searches, literature that scaled through the screening process were subjected to reference list checking to ensure there is no omission of any relevant article. Studies published in English language between 2008 and 2018 were included. Study design Published quantitative primary and secondary studies on the prevalence of HIV infection among pregnant women carried out in Nigeria.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Other contribution Other contribution Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

Published - 13/03/2019

Publication status

Published - 13/03/2019

Place of publication

PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews

External Publication IDs

handle.net: 10547/626962

Access to documents

https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/view/CRD42019107037