Sociodemographic and clinical profile of HIV/AIDS patients in Upper Egypt: A multi-center study | ||||
| Microbes and Infectious Diseases | ||||
| Article 10, Volume 5, Issue 3, August 2024, Page 961-971 PDF (675.12 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/mid.2024.278896.1860 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Mina Tharwat1; Ehab Moustafa2; Aisha El Sharkawy3; Mostafa Medhat1; Heba Sayed4; Mohamed Hassany5, 6; Marwa Salem  7
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| 1Tropical medicine and Gastroenterology Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt | ||||
| 2Tropical medicine and Gastroenterology Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||||
| 3Endemic Medicine and hepatogastroentrology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt | ||||
| 4National AIDS Program Manager-Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| 5Tropical Medicine department, National hepatology, and tropical medicine research institute, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| 6Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt | ||||
| 7Public Health and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Despite the global increase in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence, there is little knowledge regarding the nature of the HIV clinical profile and patients' sociodemographic characteristics in Upper Egypt. This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic and clinical profile of HIV-infected patients registered in treatment centers in Upper Egypt over the past 7 years. Methods: Data were collected from the available medical records for 650 patients at the three main HIV healthcare centers in Upper Egypt from January 2015 until December 2021. The collected sociodemographic variables included age, sex, occupation, educational level, residence, and risk factors. In addition, clinical examination data, treatment regimens, laboratory investigations, and outcome data were obtained. Results: The study found that most patients (85.5%) were male, with ages ranging from 3 to 78 years and a median age of 33. Intravenous drug use (44.5%) was the most common transmission route, and fever (84.3%) was the most frequently reported symptom. Pneumonia (24.3%) was the most registered opportunistic infection. Median CD4 cell counts were 299 cells/mm3 before treatment and 366 cells/mm3 after treatment. PCR values were available for 631 patients (97%), with viremia evident in 630 patients (99.8%) before treatment. 73.2% of patients showed improvement in outcomes, while 8.3% died. Conclusion: The current study findings provide relevant information for the National AIDS Program (NAP) to design HIV education messages and apply preventive measures accordingly. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| AIDS, Clinical picture., HIV, Sociodemographic; Upper Egypt | ||||
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