The effect of AIDS on maternal mortality in Malawi and Zimbabwe George Bicego a , J. Ties Boerma b and Carine Ronsmans c The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has had a signi®cant impact on levels of pregnancy- related mortality. Nationally representative sur- veys in Malawi and Zimbabwe indicated that pregnancy-related mortality risks have increased 1.9 and 2.5 times, respectively, during the past decade, concomitant with a nearly 10-fold in- crease in the prevalence of HIV among pregnant women. The increase is more pronounced in AIDS 2002, Vol 16 No 7 1078