Profile of HIV sero-positive attendees: an integrated counselling and testing centre record based retrospective study

Abstract

Background: The sustainable development goal target is to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far. The objectives of the study were to find out the pattern of socio-demographic profile among HIV sero-positive patients attending ICTC centre in SVIMS, Tirupati and to study the risk behaviour pattern among HIV sero-positives.Methods: Retrospective cross sectional study was undertaken at ICTC Centre, SVIMS, SPMC (W), Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. The records of data of all the HIV sero-positive attendees who attended the ICTC from January 2013 to June 2018 were included as study subjects. Records maintained were noted in proforma containing socio-demographic characteristics of HIV seropositive patients. Data was analysed using SPSS software version 23.00.Results: Majority of sero-positives were illiterates, married, daily wage labourers from rural area, in 20 to 60 years age group. Transmission was predominantly through the heterosexual route (96.1%). 68(54.4%) males and 63(72.4%) females were sero-concordant while 57 (45.6%) males and 24 (27.6%) females were sero-discordant.Conclusions: There is need to carry out intense IEC activities for behavior change at grass root levels. Low literacy and limited access to health facilities should be addressed.

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“…The most common mode of HIV transmission observed in our study was through unprotected heterosexual contact (97.4%). This finding is consistent with other studies that identified heterosexual sex practice as the predominant mode of HIV transmission (96.1%-97.76%) [15,16].…”

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“…8,9 However these results were in contrast to a study done in Tirupati where the number of clients decreased over years and no much difference was observed in prevalence. 10 Heterosexual mode of transmission was responsible for sero-positivity among of HIV positive clients as noted with other studies. The married to unmarried ratio was 7.12:1 as against 4.47:1 (228/51) in Meerut study.…”