Title: Prevalence and Profile of HIV positive among attendees of Integrated Counselling & Testing Centre (ICTC) of a Govt. Medical College of Central India
Authors: Dr Sanjeev Kumar, Dr Anjana Niranjan, Dr Paharam Adhikari, Dr Deepankar Patnayak, Dr Manoj Saxena, Dr Manish Kumar
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v5i4.05
Abstract
An integrated counseling and testing center is a place where a person is counseled and tested for HIV, on his own free will or as advised by a medical provider. ICTC data can guide in identifying the various risk groups for priority targeted interventions to reduce HIV transmission in the community.
Objectives: To study the Prevalence, risk behavior, and socio-demographic characteristics of attendees who tested HIV positive at ICTC and prevalence of TB-HIV co-infection among HIV positive cases.
Material & Methods: This study is based on the Record review & Inter – viewing of Patients attending ICTC in Shyam Shah Medical College Rewa, From 1stJanuary to 30th December 2015.Instat Graph pad Statistical software was used for data analysis.
Results: The brief details of Clients attending ICTC are reflected here. Among the total patients 10089 in a year 2015, referred to ICTC, 167 were HIV Positive, so the overall prevalence of HIV among attendees was 1.65%,in which 93 were males and 73 were females, and 1 was Transgender. TB-HIV co-infection was present in 18 patients out of 597 were referred to RNTCP centre, out of total 18 ANC cases were referred to ICTC, 8 were found HIV positive. And most common 92.21% mode of transmission was hetrosexual.
Conclusions: On the basis of present study we concluded that hetrosexual mode of Transmission & Lower Socio – economic Status, lower educated, farmer by occupation predominate among HIV Positives, so we need to focus on these group by IEC or BCC activities to modify the risk behavior to reverse the HIV epidemic.
Keywords: ICTC, Medical College, Prevalence, Lower Socio – Economic Status.etc.
