Socio-Clinical Profile Of HIV Patients Visiting To An Art Centre

Singh, AK; Singh, Sandeep; Alawa, HL

doi:10.3126/saarctb.v10i2.9707

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“…Usually the occupations associated with transportation had higher risk of HIV transmission. 13 Nearly 25.40% of the population constituted of home makers which was comparable to the study performed by Singh et al 9 The remaining less commonly found occupations were students (0.25%), which was consistent with the findings made by Shamim et al 8 It was testified that low socioeconomic status plays a major role in social behaviour of the individuals prompting the incidence and transmission of HIV infection. Also low socio-economic status has a negative impact on adherence of the therapy.…”

Section: Socio-demographic Profile and Factors Influencing Hiv Prognosissupporting

confidence: 81%

“…According to the age wise distribution, 89.30% of the individuals belonged to the age group of 18 -45 years similar to the findings reported by Sintayehu et al, and Shamim et al 7,8 The mean age of the study population was found to be about 36.67 years (SD ±10.02) which is comparable to the findings made by Singh et al, Shamim et al, Sintayehu et al, and Duru et al [7][8][9][10] The majorly affected age group represented the sexually active population with increased chance of transmission of HIV. 10 Thus the increase in the prevalence in this age group contributed to a major burden on the socio economic status of the country.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…With regard to the marital status, majority of the study population was married i.e., 60.42% which was comparable with the studies performed by Babu et al, Duru et al, Singh AP et al, and Ghiya et al 9,10,13,14 Increase in married individuals suggests that the possible mode of transmission might be from their partners.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…This finding was quite contrast with those reported by Babu et al, and Singh et al 9,13 The reason behind this scenario was that females acquire HIV from their male counterpart lately and in the meantime the males were expected to die earlier due progression of disease. The widowed female population were at increased risk for HIV infection as they end up in exchanging sexual activity for emotional and financial support.…”

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confidence: 56%

“…The widowed female population were at increased risk for HIV infection as they end up in exchanging sexual activity for emotional and financial support. 9 About 3.74% were single which was not comparable to the study performed by Babu et al 13 About 5.61% of the study population were divorced which was not in correlation with the results stated by Alemayehu et al 12 In this study, 37.43% of the patients had no education and 15.24% had primary education, similar to the outcomes found by Alemayehu et al 12 The increase in illiteracy and lack of higher education can be considered as one of the contributing factors for increased prevalence of HIV. It can also be reflected scenario for the occurrence of other opportunistic infections.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Epidemiological surveillance of tuberculosis among HIV/AIDS seropositive individuals attending ART center at a tertiary care teaching hospital

Chandra

Babu

Prasad

et al. 2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background:HIBackground: HIV/ AIDS is an epidemic that is most prevalent in India affecting people of different age groups, occupations and gender. It has a severe impact on the health status of the affected individuals. With the increase in the transmission of HIV there is also an increase in the existence of TB as a co-infection. In this context, the aim of our study is to emphasize the factors affecting the occurrence, transmission and prognosis of HIV/AIDS patients along with TB co-infection.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted from October 2015 to March 2016 at an ART center in South India. All the seropositive patients with/ without opportunistic infection above the age of 18 years were included in the study.Results: Overall 374 patients were included in the study, of which the most affected age group was 18-45 years. Women constituted 55.61% of the total population. 64.17% of the individuals were married. Majority of them belonged to rural areas (64.97%) and were illiterates (37.43%). Commonly observed WHO clinical stage was I and functional status was working. Heterosexuality (93.65%) was the predominant route of transmission. 170 had TB with PTB (60.58%) being prevalent than EPTB (33.52%). The number of smear positive and smear negative cases were 37.79% and 27.55% respectively. DOTS therapy was accessible to only 49.99%.Conclusions: There was an extensive prevalence of TB among HIV/AIDS individuals. This signifies a need for increased screening of TB among HIV seropositive individuals and vice-versa. Preventive and educational programmes should be organised to halt the transmission of HIV and to reduce the newly occurring HIV infections. V/ AIDS is an epidemic that is most prevalent in India affecting people of different age groups, occupations and gender. It has a severe impact on the health status of the affected individuals. With the increase in the transmission of HIV there is also an increase in the existence of TB as a co-infection. In this context, the aim of our study is to emphasize the factors affecting the occurrence, transmission and prognosis of HIV/AIDS patients along with TB co-infection.Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted from October 2015 to March 2016 at an ART center in South India. All the seropositive patients with/ without opportunistic infection above the age of 18 years were included in the study.Results: Overall 374 patients were included in the study, of which the most affected age group was 18-45 years. Women constituted 55.61% of the total population. 64.17% of the individuals were married. Majority of them belonged to rural areas (64.97%) and were illiterates (37.43%). Commonly observed WHO clinical stage was I and functional status was working. Heterosexuality (93.65%) was the predominant route of transmission. 170 had TB with PTB (60.58%) being prevalent than EPTB (33.52%). The number of smear positive and smear negative cases were 37.79% and 27.55% respectively. DOTS therapy was accessible to only 49.99%.Conclusion: There was an extensive prevalence of TB among HIV/AIDS individuals. This signifies a need for increased screening of TB among HIV seropositive individuals and vice-versa. Preventive and educational programmes should be organised to halt the transmission of HIV and to reduce the newly occurring HIV infections.

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Section: Socio-demographic Profile and Factors Influencing Hiv Prognosissupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Socio-demographic Profile and Factors Influencing Hiv Prognosissupporting

confidence: 81%

Section: Socio-demographic Profile and Factors Influencing Hiv Prognosissupporting

confidence: 78%

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confidence: 56%

Section: Socio-demographic Profile and Factors Influencing Hiv Prognosismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Epidemiological surveillance of tuberculosis among HIV/AIDS seropositive individuals attending ART center at a tertiary care teaching hospital

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Babu

Prasad

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Prevalence of HIV-TB co-infection, clinical profile and CD4 count of HIV patients attending ART centre of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

Gautam¹,

Deshpande²,

Somasundaram³

2014

Int J Med Sci Public Health

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Background: HIV-TB co-infection has become a major public health problem worldwide. TB has become the major cause of death in HIV positive patients. Clinical course and pattern of opportunistic infections in HIV patients is changing worldwide. Aims & Objective: To study prevalence of HIV-TB co-infection and socio-demographic & clinical profile of HIV-AIDS patients attending anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centre in a rural area, Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2013 to April 2014 at an antiretroviral therapy centre of a rural tertiary care hospital, situated in Maharashtra state of India. Interview of 385 HIV positive individuals was taken by using pre-designed questionnaire which included socio-demographic and clinical profile, opportunistic infections and CD4 counts of the patients. Results: More than two third (71.43%) of the study population were in sexually active age group i.e. 30-45 years. Females were 46.8% and males were 53.2%. Most of them were from upper lower socioeconomic (46.23%) and lower (secondary level) educational status. Fatigue, weight loss, fever, cough, diarrhoea were common clinical features. Most common opportunistic infection was herpes zoster (47.27%). Heterosexual route was main route of transmission. Most of the female respondents were widows (66.67%) and 48.29% were discordant couple. 46.75% patients were in the third stage of disease. Mean CD4 count at the start of treatment was 152.9 ± 92.45. Prevalence of HIV-TB co-infection was 21.56%. Conclusion: Opportunistic infections were associated with CD4 count and CD4 count was associated with A.R.T. therapy. Primary as well as secondary preventive measures could be implemented effectively.

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Socio-Clinical Profile Of HIV Patients Visiting To An Art Centre

Abstract: Introduction: Scenario of the AIDS epidemic, clinical course and pattern of opportunistic infections in HIV patients is changing world-wide. The study aims to fulfi ll the paucity of socio-clinical profi le among the patient of HIV with geographical population of this region.

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Epidemiological surveillance of tuberculosis among HIV/AIDS seropositive individuals attending ART center at a tertiary care teaching hospital

Epidemiological surveillance of tuberculosis among HIV/AIDS seropositive individuals attending ART center at a tertiary care teaching hospital

Prevalence of HIV-TB co-infection, clinical profile and CD4 count of HIV patients attending ART centre of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

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