This study aimed at understanding the HIV prevalence, distribution of HIV risk factors and whether the HIV has spread from high-risk groups to the general population in the Yanyuan and Muli counties, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. A multistage probability method was used to select a representative sample of villages in each county, with stratification by risk employed in the sampling for the Yanyuan county. A real-name registration and confidential method were adopted to collect the information of the participants. Blood specimens were tested for HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis C virus. A total of 4,950 subjects participated in the study. Of the participants aged ≥ 15 years, 0.12% self-reported being drug users and 40% were injection drug users; 0.46% had multiple sex partners and the condom use rate was only 26.3% during the last sexual intercourse. HIV, syphilis, and HCV prevalence of Yanyuan county were 0.06% (95% CI: 0-0.142), 0.06% (95% CI: 0-0.142), and 0.15% (95% CI: 0.020-0.280), respectively. HCV prevalence of Muli county was 0.06% (95% CI: 0-0.191), and none was found to be HIV or syphilis positive. Therefore, the rate of HIV infection in Yanyuan and Muli counties is at a low level currently. The Yanyuan county HIV infection rate is similar to the average rate in all of China, and the Muli county rate is below China's average. The HIV epidemic has not spread from high-risk groups to the general population in these two counties.
The rate of intention to undergo HIV testing among women is low. AIDS health education programmess and public information campaigns should be initiated to improve knowledge about HIV and the risk of HIV infection, to encourage women to take HIV testing more promptly. It is also vital to take measures to reduce stigma against AIDS patients.
increasing maternal age, 11 of the 12 women aged 50 years and older had attempted in vitro fertilization at an IVF center in Abuja.Endometrial hyperplasia was the second most common endometrial lesion (18.6%) and the most common organic lesion observed. In a similar study of 458 patients with abnormal uterine bleeding in Dubai, 11.1% were diagnosed with endometrial hyperplasia [2]. Numerous studies have postulated a relationship between endometrial hyperplasia, especially atypical hyperplasia, and endometrial cancer; hence, its detection is important. The clinical diagnosis stated on the laboratory request forms of the patients did not differ from the histologic diagnosis in 76% of cases, the majority of which were POC; however, in 21% of cases, predominantly endometrial hyperplasia, the diagnoses differed. In 3% of cases the forms comprised only descriptive clinical features.Endometrial polyps were observed in 22 (7.6%) samples, most of which came from women who were older than 50 years.
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