0001) (Table 3). The rates of happiness were similar between women who were HIV positive and HIV negative at the time of their last pregnancy,

whether it was intended [93% PI3K inhibitor (83/89) vs. 90% (83/92), p=0.46] or unintended [46% (48/125) vs. 51% (63/123), p=0.41]. When level of happiness and intention of last pregnancy were assessed in women of different ethnic backgrounds, only 43% (38/89) of African women were found to be happy or very happy with the last unintended pregnancy compared with 93% (88/95) who had an intended pregnancy (P<0.0001). Similar findings were noted with the other ethnic groups. The results from the multivariable analysis revealed that women who were happy with their last unintended pregnancy were more likely to be married or have a common-law partner and have given birth at least once (Table 4). HIV status at the time of pregnancy and ethnicity were not significant predictors selleck chemical of happiness with last unintended pregnancy. In this study of 416 HIV-positive women of reproductive age living in Ontario,

Canada, we documented an unintended pregnancy rate of 56% (95% CI 51–61%) for their most recent pregnancy; this proportion was similar before and after HIV diagnosis. This proportion is also similar to those presented in other international reports identifying unintended pregnancy rates in HIV-positive women [7,9]. Gogna et al. [7] found that 55% of women and 30% of men in their study had children after their HIV diagnosis and that half of those pregnancies had been unintended. Our study expands on these findings by exploring the correlates of unintended pregnancy in this population and by examining the degree of happiness with unintended pregnancies. Koenig and colleagues’ finding that 83.3% of the pregnancies in HIV-positive adolescent girls were unplanned is of significant importance as the HIV

epidemic increasingly affects younger individuals and women [8,17,18]. This is a group at significant risk of HIV infection and of unintended pregnancy, and these findings highlight the importance of public health programmes targeting these vulnerable adolescent girls [17,18]. We also Tau-protein kinase concluded that the unintended pregnancy rate of 56% in our population was significantly higher than the rate in the U.S. and Ontario general populations (49 and 30%, respectively) [10,13]. Finer elegantly showed, in the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, that unintended pregnancies resulted in higher rates of abortion (42%) but lower rates of fetal loss (14%) compared with those with intended pregnancies (0% abortion rate, 20% fetal loss) [10]. Finer also assessed correlates of unintended pregnancies and found that Black and Hispanic women had more unintended pregnancies than White women.