Impact of HIV/Aids on Child Mortality before the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era: A Study in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo

Table 5

Mortality rates in children less than 1 year according to the HIV status of their mothers.

	Total	HIV+	HIV−	Rate ratio
		mothers	mothers	HIV+$/$HIV−
Number of live births	6025	392	5633	—
Number of deaths $<$ 1 year	268	82	186	—
Infant mortality rate (per 1000)	44	209	33	6.3
95% CI	39–50	170–253	28–38	—