Prevalence of pediatric HIV in New Delhi

Parthasarathy, Prabha; Mittal, Shruti; Sharma, Vaishali

doi:10.1007/bf02825481

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“…[4] Parthasarathy et al , reported a prevalence of 8.9% in 2006 in New Delhi. [3] However, prevalence in our study was 5.4%. This fall in seroprevalence may be attributed to the effectiveness of the Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission (PPTCT) program by NACO, which was started in 2002.…”

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Pediatric HIV in Mumbai

Agrawal

Sawant

Shastri

2011

Indian J Sex Transm Dis

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“…This is particularly true for India where the major mode of transmission is heterosexual contact. [3]…”

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Pediatric HIV in Mumbai

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2011

Indian J Sex Transm Dis

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“…18 In another study conducted by Parthasarathy et al at New Delhi, failure to thrive was observed to be 10% in seropositive cases, the disparity can be explained on the basis of small sample size in their study. 6 We observed by statistical analysis that the correlation between incidence of HIV and children who had failure to thrive was highly significant (p <0.001).…”

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“…Parthasarath observed that 10% seropositive children had pulmonary tuberculosis, which was quite similar to our study. 6 In study conducted by Pol et al pulmonary tuberculosis was observed in 36.3% seropositive cases. 16 In another study, Shah et al observed that 38% seropositive children had pulmonary tuberculosis.…”

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“…[3][4][5] A study conducted on prevalence of pediatric HIV in New Delhi by Parthasarthy, Mittal and Sharma, revealed that out of one hundred and twelve children tested, who were born to a seropositive mother or suffering from chronic diarrhoea, failure to thrive or disseminated tuberculosis, ten were seropositive (8.9%). 6 Findings from Uganda by Gray et al (2005) that suggest an increased risk of HIV acquisition during pregnancy. Among African women aged 15-49 years who were pregnant in the last 24 months an HIV incidence of 7.9% was found, the highest incidence rate of all analysed subpopulations in our survey.…”

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Incidence of HIV, its predictors and risk factors in children

Goyal

Agrawal

Thapar

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Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Children mostly acquire HIV (Human immunodeficiency syndrome) infection from their parents. There is need to know the HIV status of their parents, associated risk factors and predictors so as to make effective strategies to prevent this disease and save the coming/future generation from this deadly disease. The objective of the study was to know incidence of HIV, its predictors and risk factors in children. Study Setting: This is a Hospital based observation study conducted in Department of Pediatrics, Govt. Medical College, Amritsar.Methods: In this study, all patients admitted to Pediatrics department, irrespective of presenting complaints were evaluated for presence of any of risk factors/predictors as mentioned in Proforma and those children having any of risk factors/predictors were selected, consent was taken and undergone detailed clinical evaluation and investigations for HIV.Results: Incidence of HIV in all patients admitted to children ward was 1.21% (27/2227) and children who had one or more risk factor or predictor was 6.58% (27/410). Weight loss, Failure to thrive (44.44%), Diarrhoea (37.03%), Fever (70.37%), Oral Candidiasis (22.2%), Pulmonary Tuberculosis (11.11%) and Generalized Lymphadenopathy (18.51%) were significant predictors in present study. High risk behaviour of parents (37.30%) and mother's HIV positivity (62.92%) were significant high risk factors, however needle prick (18.5%) was also equally significant in present study.Conclusions: Children brought with various signs and symptoms of HIV or born to high risk behaviour practicing parents and/or HIV positive mother, physician must get their patients tested for HIV (as per NACO Guidelines) so that infected children diagnosed early and referred to a specialized centre for treatment and follow up.

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Prevalence of HIV infection among children with TB and correlation of CD4 cell count level with types of TB

Sivabalan¹,

Rajkumar²

2019

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most common cause of death from infectious diseases at the global level, being second only to HIV/AIDS. The present study has been undertaken to find out the prevalence of HIV infection among children with TB and correlation of CD4 cell count level with different types of TB.Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in children below 12 years who were diagnosed as having TB, using the modified Kenneth Jones criteria (742 TB infected children) between 2008 and 2010. Descriptive statistics were used to calculate the frequency, mean, median and standard deviation. The linear trend of proportions and trend of chi-square was used to find out the test of association.Results: The HIV prevalence rate among children with Tuberculosis was 9.7%. In TB/HIV coinfection, Pulmonary TB was 44 (61.1%), lymph node TB was 22 (30.6%), Central Nervous System TB was 4 (5.6%), abdominal TB was 1 (1.4%) and spine TB was (1.4%). Pulmonary TB was the most common type is the not significant, mild and advanced grade of immune suppression. CNS tuberculosis was the most common type in the severe grade of immune suppression. CNS TB occurred more commonly in children more than 60 months of age. Lymph node TB is the commonest type of tuberculosis in children with HIV coinfection less than 35 months of age.Conclusions: The prevalence of HIV among tuberculosis children was 9.7%. This prevalence rate indicates the need for routine screening of all newly diagnosed tuberculous children for HIV coinfection.

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Prevalence of pediatric HIV in New Delhi

Abstract: HIV infection is an emerging reality in New Delhi. A clinically directed screening can help detect more cases.

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Incidence of HIV, its predictors and risk factors in children

Prevalence of HIV infection among children with TB and correlation of CD4 cell count level with types of TB

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