Socio-demographic correlates of HIV-TB Co-infected Patients Attending ART Centre of Jharkhand
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
Background: The HIV epidemic has posed a major challenge to control tuberculosis (TB) across the world. HIV and TB both primarily affect people in their most productive years of life. Objectives: This study was done aiming to describe the socio-demographic profile of HIV-TB Co-infected patients attending ART Centre of RIMS, Ranchi and also the type of TB and CD4 count in HIV-TB Coinfected patients. Methods: This was a record based cross sectional study. Data of all HIV-TB co-infected patients attending ART Centre of RIMS, Ranchi was collected from ART Register which came out to be 80 patients. Total study duration was 3 months (June 2016 to August 2016). Templates were generated in MS excel sheet and analysis was done using SPSS software. Results & Conclusion: On analyzing 80 subjects it was found that majority were males (62,77.5%) with most commonly affected age group being 21-40 years (49,61.2%). Smear positive pulmonary TB was most common type of TB (34, 42.5%) with most patients having CD4 count <500 (75,93.75%). TB in HIV infected patients is more common in males in their most productive years of life. Extra pulmonary TB being second most common after smear positive pulmonary TB.
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Dr Abhishek Kumar
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