Study of Sociodemographic Profile of HIV Positive Patients Attending ART Centre of a Medical College
Journal Title: Journal of Advanced Medical and Dental Sciences Research - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
It is estimated that 90% of the HIV infected persons live in the developing countries and with the estimated number of infected Indian being 2.31 million, with an adult prevalence of 0.3%. In india HIV prevalence is highest in the south -western state (e.g.-Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh) where sexual transmission is dominant, and in the North-east state (e.g. Manipur Meghalaya, and Nagaland) where injecting drug use (I.V.D.U) is the most common route of infection . The present study is carried out in the department of medicine at ART centre of Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital & Shyam Shah Medical College, Rewa (M.P.). In present study majority (90.92%) of HIV patient were within 20-49 years of age and maximum number of HIV patients (25.63%) were from the 35-39years of age. In this study 68.97% patient were from rural area and 31.03% were from urban area (i.e. R/U ratio=2.22/1). out of 1135 adult HIV patients, 99.55% (n=1130) [96.31% male and 100% female] were have heterosexual habit of sex and only 0.16% (n=2) were have homosexual and 0.24% (n=3) were have bisexual habit of sex and no female have homosexual or bisexual sex habit in our study.
Authors and Affiliations
Keshav Singh, Rajkumar Updhyay, Manoj Indurkar, M. K. Jain
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