A study of prevalence of HIV co-infection among Tuberculosis patients in Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 8
Abstract
Background: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the leading cause of mortality among patients with Tuberculosis (TB) and the majority of them occur in developing countries. The aim of study is to find the prevalence of HIV status among TB patients in PCMC area. Materials and Methods: The type of study was observational cross sectional study. Total 150 subjects were taken in this study. The study was conducted at the City Tuberculosis Center, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Pimpri, Pune, over a period of 10 months. Subjects were taken from City TB Center, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, Pimpri, Pune, diagnosis was made by Serology for HIV. Results: The study showed that Mean age of HIV negative was found to be 33.15, whereas HIV positive was 40.17. Frequency of HIV in TB patients was 6 out of 150 cases. Gender wise HIV negative males were 95.06%, whereas females were 97.1%, as compared to HIV positive males were 4.94%, as compared to females were 2.9%. Residential status of HIV negative was 95.51% in slum & 96.72% in urban, whereas in HIV positive 4.49% in slum & 3.28% in urban area. Treatment Category-I of TB in HIV negative was 97.03% & in Category II was 93.88%, whereas in HIV positive was 2.97% in Category I & 6.12% in Category II. There was a significant (p<0.05) correlation between Tuberculosis infection & HIV. Conclusion: The prevalence of HIV/TB co-infection in our study was found to be 4%.
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A. Banerjee
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