Prevalence of HIV in Blood Bank at CCM Medical College
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Purpose: Prevalence of HIV in Blood Bank at CCM Medical College. Methods: This is an observational study of blood donor in blood bank at CCMMC Kachandur Durg (C.G.). The Study was carried out from to January 2014 to March 2017. Total 817, 2117, 3488 and 958 donors donate blood at CCMMC blood bank out of 2, 3, 13 and 7 are HIV positive cases found in 2014, 2015, 2016 & upto March 2017 respectively. Results: A total 7380 number of donors were studied in the study period i.e. 2014 to March 2017. In same period we found 25 donors are HIV positive. Out of 2 HIV positive cases found in 2014, 3 HIV positive cases found in 2015, 13 HIV positive cases found in 2016 and 7 positive cases found in upto march 2017. The age group of donor ranged from 18 to 60 years. Mean age of males in HIV positive patients was 34.57 ± 8.21and mean age of female was 30.04 ± 5.58. The percentage of HIV positive cases in 2014 was 0.244, in 2015 the percentage was 0.14, 0.372% positive cases found in 2016 and in upto march 2017 total 0.730% cases found at CCMMC blood bank from 2014 to March 2017. Among 25 HIV positive cases 19 cases suffers from fever, 16, 21and18 cases followed by weight loss, pallor and cough respectively. And 9, 6, 6, 3and 11 cases suffering from diarrhea, oral thrush, Icterus, lymph node and Hepatitis B respectively. Conclusion: HIV infection is one of the major infectious diseases in the Chhattisgarh & being chronic & lifelong is nature. Its impact is high compared to other disease. Prevention is the best strategy for reducing the human & economic toll from HIV. The largest impact on the HIV epidemic a comprehensive approach is needed for HIV prevention, there is high frequently of behavioral risk factors, together with unawareness & too little health infrastructure, thus creating an impending risk for the rapid spread of HIV.
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Reena Banarjee, Rahul Gulati, Karan Singh Chandrakar
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2017.3.3.039
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