AEGiS-06IAC: Seroprevalence among the crime related population: prisoners & prostitutes.

6th International AIDS Conference


San Francisco, California, USA — June 20-23, 1990

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Seroprevalence among the crime related population: prisoners & prostitutes.

Int Conf AIDS 1990 Jun 20-23; 6:347 (abstract no. Th.D.887)
Ravinathan R, Meeran MD, Durairaj VS, Venkateswaran K, Kantharaj K, Jayapaul K; Stanley Medical College, Madras, India

OBJECTIVE: HIV serosurveillance study was attempted to screen the convicts: men homosexuals & jail inmates; women prostitutes confined in Vigilance Homes and children in TamilNadu a southern state of India.

METHODS: Between Apr. 1986 and Nov. '89, 3168 male convicts, 3133 women prostitutes and 975 juveniles were screened and their blood sampled for HIV antibodies by ELISA and the seropositivity was ascertained by Western Blot. The seropositives were thoroughly examined clinically and associated STD were taken into account.

RESULTS: 2 men (0.06%) and 48 women (1.53%) (detected 2 in '85, 11 in '86, 19 in '87, 7 in '88 & 9 in '89) were seropositive for HIV while all the children were seronegative. Low incidence of seropositivity among men prisoners may be due to less number of partners indulged over a period of time whereas the higher preponderance in women prostitutes relate to multiple partners; multiple exposures and possible perverted sexual practices; though both (convicted men and women prostitutes) were highly promiscuous. The seropositive women in addition; 13 had syphilis, 1 had gonorrhoea, and 2 had other forms of associated STDs. On thorough general & systemic examination only 2 had tuberculous cervical adinitis and 1 had hypertrophic tonsils, the rest were clinically symptom free and nothing abnormal detected.

CONCLUSION: These high risk groups should be screened compulsorily (for HIV), appropriately health educated (condom use) and seropositives must be suitably rehabilitated (social status).

Keywords: AEGIS, Prostitution, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Prisoners, Crime, Sexual Partners, HIV Antibodies, Population, Homosexuality, Blotting, Western, India, Human, Female, Male, Child, ICA6KWDaegis,prostitution,seroepidemiologicstudies,sexuallytransmitteddiseases,prisoners,crime,sexualpartners,hivantibodies,population,homosexuality,blotting,western,india,human,female,male,child,ica6

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