While developing COVID-19 during a high-risk pregnancy is bad both for the mother and the baby, having HIV infection as well doesnt seem to make it any worse, reports a study from South Africa.

Among 100 women diagnosed with COVID-19 while receiving care at a high-risk obstetric care service, eight deaths were reported. These included six among the 72 women (8%) with COVID-19, and two among the 28 women (7%) who had HIV co-infection. Among the women who died during the study, only two of the babies they were carrying survived, reported Liesl De Waard, MBChB, of Stellenbosch University in suburban Cape Town during an oral presentation at the virtual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)… (Medpage Today)