AEGiS-11IAC: Annual population profile and seroprevalence for HIV infection in the principal risk behaviors in an Argentine population.

11th International AIDS Conference


Vancouver, British Columbia — July 7-12, 1996

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Annual population profile and seroprevalence for HIV infection in the principal risk behaviors in an Argentine population.

Int Conf AIDS 1996 Jul 7-12; 11:454 (abstract no. Pub.C.1100)
Canizal AM, Vazquez A, Deluchi G, Castro R, Wainstein C, Benetucci J; Laboratorio de Retrovirus y Virus Asociados FUNDAI, Hospital Muniz, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fax: (541) 811-5697.

Objetives: To compare the annual population profile and the seroprevalence according to the principal risk behaviors that consults for the HIV infection status in a population of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

METHODS: From 1987 to 1995 we tested the HIV serology of 18458 serum samples patients who assist spontaneously to this laboratory (table: see text)

RESULTS: (table: see text)

CONCLUSIONS: Heterosexuals becoming the predominant group of consultant through all this years. Also the proportion of women progressively increased, though their seroprevalence decreased. We observed that the proportion of homo-bisexuals and IDUs for consultation gradually declined and this is a particular characteristic of our studied population,although the HIV prevalence considerably increased in boths groups.

Keywords: AEGIS, Risk-Taking, HIV Infections, Seroepidemiologic Studies, HIV, Bisexuality, Heterosexuality, Population, Prevalence, Urban Population, Argentina, Human, Female, ICA11KWDaegis,risk-taking,hivinfections,seroepidemiologicstudies,hiv,bisexuality,heterosexuality,population,prevalence,urbanpopulation,argentina,human,female,ica11

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