From January 2013
to May 2020, the prospective study was conducted at the Shanti infectious
diseases clinic in Vadodara, Gujarat, India, with the following goals:
1. To determine the
frequency of HIV infection among Shanti ID Clinic patients with sexually
transmitted diseases. Vadodara is an Indian industrial city in south Gujarat,
around 300 miles from Mumbai, on the boundary of Madhya Pradesh (MP) and
Maharashtra.
2.To investigate
the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (S.T.I.) in Vadodara,
Gujarat, India. S.T.I. can raise the risk of HIV infection in HIV-negative people
as well as the risk of HIV transmission to others among HIV-positive people.
3.The study
investigates how STIs may promote HIV transmission through sexual contact and
how STIs may jeopardise our HIV preventive efforts. What can we do about it?
4.A substantial
link exists between bacterial and viral sexually transmitted diseases and HIV
infection acquisition and transmission.
Males were
responsible for 317 (79.23%) of the 400 cases of sexually transmitted diseases,
while females were responsible for 83. (20.75 percent ). The Elisa test was
performed to screen for HIV, and a Western blot test validated the results. 300
cases (75.00%) occurred between the ages of 20 and 50, 34 cases (8.55%)
occurred between the ages of 0 and 20, and 66 cases (916.25%) occurred after
the age of 50. Out of 400 patients, 87 had syphilis (21.75 percent), 45 had
cancroid (11.25 percent), 73 had gonorrhoea (18.25 percent), 110 had genital
herpes (27.50 percent), and 11 had moll-scum contagiosum (2.75 percent). 44
cases of genital scabies (11%), 9 cases of CMV infection (2.755%), and 21 cases
of lymphogranuloma venerium were reported (5.24 percent ). Out of 400 cases of
sexually transmitted diseases, 67 cases (16.76%) tested positive for HIV, with
61 cases (91.04%) being HIV1 and the remaining 6 cases (8.96%) being HIV2.
Despite the notion that there is a possible link between STIs and the risk of
HIV infection, intervention research has been lacking. This does not rule out
the possibility of a causal link, but additional research into the mechanisms
of action, as well as the design and implementation of interventions, is
required.
Author(S)
Details
Narendra Kumar Chopra
Faculty of Medicine,
SEGI University, Malaysia.
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