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'Positive' At Higher Pregnancy Risk

by Medindia Content Team on  June 20, 2006 at 11:26 AM AIDS/HIV News
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'Positive' At Higher Pregnancy Risk
According to a report put forth on Monday by the department of nursing education of Witwatersrand University, HIV-positive women are more prone to suffer from anemia and elevated blood pressure during their pregnancy and eventually deliver babies with low birth weight and retarded growth.



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