HIV Serosurveillance Profile in Men Sex Men: Targeted Intervention Group
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: HIV is the plague of the running century.It has changed the fate of our society.Emergence of HIV threatened the economical, developmental, social welfare and public health progress not only in India but also all over the world.serosurveillance studies play a major role in success of health care programmes. Objective: the present was undertaken to study the serosurveillance profile in MSM targeted intervention group in AP. Material and Methods: This study was conducted over a period of 12 months from April 2004 to April 2005. Serum samples are received from the voluntary organizations SAATI,vijayawada which is working for the welfare of MSM groups. Age, location, migration, literacy of the seropositive patients was considered. Results: During this period consecutive non repetitive 250 serum samples received from MSM clients were tested for the serosurveillance of HIV by HIV TRIDOT KIT manufactured by J.Mitra & Co., Ltd. Among them HIV test by TRIDOT was positive in 33(13.2%) samples. samples of age group 20-29 yrs showed highest positive percentage (15.2%) and lowest positive percentage below 20yrs age group showed (6.6%). Conclusion: our study findings are contrary to the belief. Therefore it is recommended that large sample based studies may be taken up in which may throw better light on the seroprevalance and clinical presentation of HIV among MSM
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Maria Sindhura John
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