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A high prevalence of anemia in HIV-infected present women was found from many studies especially in Africa such as Tanzania, Uganda and Nigeria(1, 3, 4, 10, 16). With a high prevalence (41%), this is the first study determining the prevalence of anemia among HIV-infected pregnant women in Thailand which is comparable to the prevalence in India (38.7%)(5). Several associated factors of anemia in this population had been reported, such as thalassemia carriers or having the disease, no ANC, no iron supplementation, low dosage of iron supplementation, consequences of inflammation, bone marrow suppression, hemolysis and AZT-based HAART regimens during ANC for viral suppression(
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