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Comprehensive & Cost Effective Laboratory Monitoring of HIV/AIDS: an African Role Model
Published on: October 31, 2010
[Study of the AIDS epidemic in the city of St. Carlos]
Abstract:
This study emerged in the face of the need to consolidate the information from the clinical HIV+ and AIDS cases recorded at the Ambulatório Regional de Especialidades de São Carlos (Special Clinic). Its aim is to identify the population according to sex, age group, marital status, level of education, occupation and the variables related to the epidemic means of exposure, laboratory tests and disease status-as well as to provide the health service with information. The data from 204 patients, 147 males and 57 females were analysed; most people were between 20 and 30 year of age and single. For females, the predominant mean of exposure was heterosexual sex, and for males blood transmission (intravenous drug use) predominated. With this analysis it will be possible to follow the development of the epidemic in the region and to propose preventive measures, which are considered to be only option for control of the disease at present.
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