Marseille 2007
| Abstract #180 - Educational status in high risk patients with HIV seropositivity | ||||
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Session: 50.7: Transmission and social epidemiology (Parallel) on Wednesday @ 08.30-10.30 in PR Chaired by Brenda Spencer, Helene Sylvain Authors: Presenting Author: Dr Sunil Kumar Srinivas - Madras Medical College, India |
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| Additional Authors: Prof Thirumalaikolundu Subramanian, Prof D Rajasekaran, | ||||
| Aim: To study the relationship between educational status and HIV seropositivity among high risk patients (patients with sexually transmitted infections,intravenous drug abusers and commercial sex workers). | ||||
| Method / Issue: Data were collected from HIV sentinel surveillance report 2005 published by TANSACS (Tamilnadu State Aids Control Society), government of Tamilnadu. The educational of patients in three particularly high risk groups were noted and their relationship with positivity rates compared statistically. | ||||
| Results / Comments: Among a total of 2752 patients with sexually transmitted infection tested for HIV, 309 (12.03%) were found to be seropositive. The incidence of positivity among illiterates was slightly higher(13.04%). Of a total of 2750 commercial sex workers 151 (5.49%) were found to be positive. Illiterates had almost double the rate (5.85%) of positivity as graduates (2.9%). The positivity rate among graduate intravenous drug abusers was only 14.29% as compared to 53.3% among the illiterate drug abusers. | ||||
| Discussion: Among the high groups analyzed for literacy, HIV positivity rate was higher among illiterates. As the level of education increased the fall in positivity rate was also observed. To decrease the rate of acquiring the disease and transmission from them the high risk group may be focussed on and educated on healthy life style and barring methods apart from counseling guidance. It is likely that regular education may help to reduce the occurance of this disease in general. | ||||
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