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HIV and TB co-infection in South Sudan: a three year retrospective study
Objective:聽To determine the prevalence of HIV/TB co-infection among patients attending the HIV clinic at Juba Teaching聽Hospital (JTH) from 2011 to 2013.Method and Materials:聽This was a retrospective study using data abstracted from the registration book in the HIV clinic. A data sheet was used聽to collect relevant variables. Data were entered, organized and analyzed using SPSS Version 20 Software. A p-value of聽0.05 or less was considered significant.Results:聽Out of 2,577 patients attending the HIV clinic in JTH from 2011 to 2013, 2,547 (99%) were included in this study. Of聽these, 27.4% were seen in 2011, 34.1% in 2012 and 38.5% in 2013. There were 1,010 (39.7%) males and 1,537(60.3%)聽females with a male to female ratio of 2:3. The mean age (x, SD, range) was 30.8 +/-10.8 (0.2-68) years which for聽males was 33.3+/- 12.2 (1-68) years and 29.1+/-9.5 (0.2-65) years for females. There were 2,318 (91%) HIV monoinfected聽patients and 229 (9%) HIV/TB co-infected patients. There were 122 HIV/TB co-infected males and 107聽females. 39.3% of patients with HIV/TB were aged 25-34 years, and 9.3% were aged 0 14 years. The p-value between聽the groups and within the groups was statistically significant at p= 0.005. Munuki payam had the highest percentage聽(31.7%) of HIV/TB co-infection.Conclusion:聽HIV/TB remains a major challenging health problem with a prevalence of 9%
Prevalence of HIV among blood donors at Juba Teaching Hospital Blood Bank, South Sudan
Objectives:聽The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of HIV among blood donors in Juba Teaching Hospital Blood聽Bank, South Sudan in 2013.Method and Materials:聽This is a retrospective study that involved the abstraction of data from registers at the blood bank. Data were collected聽onto data sheets and entered into a computer database. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS Version 20聽Software. A p value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.Results:聽Out of 1095 blood donors, 1074 (98.1%) were males and 21 (1.9%) were females. The mean age and the range for聽the whole group was 29+7.16 (15-69) yrs. The prevalence of HIV was higher among males than females 85 (7.9%)聽vs 1 (4.8%) respectively but this was not statistical significant (p=0.6). The 20 to 29 year age group had the highest聽prevalence of 49 (57%) with no statistical significance (p=0.3). The prevalence of HIV was 7. % (86) and there were聽co-infections between HIV and HBV, HCV and syphilis of14 (50%), 5 (18%), 9 (32%) with p=0.7, p=0.1, p=0.8聽respectively. Blood group O positive had the highest percentage 58.1 % (n=50) and was the commonest group.Conclusion:聽In this study, HIV prevalence is very high among blood donors at the Juba Teaching Hospital blood bank