AEGiS-11IAC: Prevalence and patterns of HIV in India.

11th International AIDS Conference


Vancouver, British Columbia — July 7-12, 1996

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Prevalence and patterns of HIV in India.

Int Conf AIDS 1996 Jul 7-12; 11:444 (abstract no. Pub.B.1042)
Uma A, Thiruvalluvan M, Yamamoto N, Shanmuganandan S; Madurai Medical College, Madurai, India. Fax: 91-452-531056.

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the present study is to elucidate the prevalence of HIV among various target groups viz., i) Healthy volunteers (Blood donors in Madurai) ii) Patients attending STD clinics in Madurai iii) Prison inmates iv) Full blown AIDS cases in Madurai and v) Healthy volunteers (blood donors) and STD cases from a few other South Indian cities.

METHODS: A special attempt was made to collect blood samples from prisoners and healthy individuals coming to blood banks for blood donation and also cases reported at STD clinic, Government Rajaji's hospital, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. Enzyme linked Immunoserbent Assay (ELISA) test was performed by using Wellcozyme, U.K. kit. The study was conducted over a period of 11 months from May, 1994 to March, 1995.

RESULTS: The seroprevalence of HIV among healthy volunteers (Blood donors) revealed an overall positivity of HIV was 0.6% in which males constituted 0.62% and females constituted 0.55%. HIV positivity among patients attending STD clinic was 27.4% and it was in the age group of 21-30 years. It was seen in 29.15% of males and 24.1% of females. Among the prison inmates the HIV positivity was higher (14.2%) in females than 2% among male prisoners.

CONCLUSION: The study thus confirmed the status of HIV/AIDS epidemic in India not only explaining the pattern of AIDS epidemic but also throwing light on the behavioural pattern of HIV in India.

Keywords: AEGIS, HIV, Prevalence, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, HIV Seroprevalence, HIV-1, HIV-2, Blood Donors, HIV Antibodies, India, Seroepidemiologic Studies, Human, Female, Male, epidemiology, ICA11KWDaegis,hiv,prevalence,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,sexuallytransmitteddiseases,hivseroprevalence,hiv-1,hiv-2,blooddonors,hivantibodies,india,seroepidemiologicstudies,human,female,male,epidemiology,ica11

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