A program on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV at government hospital, Tiruchengode taluk, Namakkal district

Parameshwari, S; Jacob, Mini; Vijayakumari, James; Shalini, Diana; Sushi, M. K.; Sivakumar, M. R.

doi:10.4103/0970-0218.55298

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“…10 The WHO and UNAID introduced a routine opt-out approach in countries with high prevalence. 11 In the present study, the overall acceptance of the HIV testing with opt-out approach was 83.85% (15, 14,15 This emphasizes there is need for good counseling skills by the counselor to achieve both counselling and HIV testing close to 100%. We observed that, majority of seropositive pregnant women were married, primigravidae, residence of rural areas with low socioeconomic status, were either illiterate or studied up to primary level and not used any contraceptives.…”

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Declining Hiv Seroprevalence Among Pregnant Women in South Odisha, India: A Six and Half Year Tertiary Care Hospital Based Study

Dash

Mohanty

Sahu

et al. 2012

Int J of Biomed & Adv Res

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Background: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has emerged as the greatest threat to human existence. Estimating the rate and trends of HIV seroprevalence among pregnant women provides essential information for an effective implementation of Prevention of Parent to Child Transmission of HIV (PPTCT) programme and for monitoring its spread within different parts of the country. Objective: As few studies are available from India on HIV prevalence among the antenatal population, a study at a tertiary care hospital in southern Odisha was carried out to know the current trends of seroprevalence in this group. Methods: Blood samples were collected from pregnant women attending antenatal clinic and Integrated Counselling and Testing Centre II (ICTC II) after pre test counselling and informed consent from November 2005 to April 2012. The samples were tested for HIV antibodies as per WHO and NACO guidelines. Result: Among 18,905 pregnant women counseled, 15,853 (83.85%) were accepted for HIV testing. From the total 15,853 tested in six and half years, 0.66% women were found to be HIV seropositive. The mean age of HIV positive women was 24.31 years (SD ± 3.9 yrs). The HIV seroprevalence rates showed a declining trend from 1.53% in 2006 to 0.34% in 2012. Among seropositive women majority (43.8%) were in the age group of 25-29 years. Conclusion: Declining seroprevalence rate indicate prevention campaigns are working, condom usage and preventive sexual behavior has increased.

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Declining Hiv Seroprevalence Among Pregnant Women in South Odisha, India: A Six and Half Year Tertiary Care Hospital Based Study

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Mohanty

Sahu

et al. 2012

Int J of Biomed & Adv Res

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“…8 In comparison to other studies of Uttar Pradesh; higher seroprevalence of 0.4% were observed by Mehrotra et 16,20,22 In study done by Gupta et al in AIIMS Delhi, India, prevalence was found to be 0.88%. 21 Studies from south India by Giri 7,15,17,22,27,30 Analyzing the reason for this difference between our results and NACO data, could be different surveillance system. Present study is hospital based survey for past 11 years while NACO uses sentinel surveillance system and being a tertiary centre, most of seropositive HIV women are referred from several centers, so higher number of seropositive antenatal women are attended in our hospital.…”

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“…7,[12][13][14][15] This emphasizes that by good HIV counselling acceptance rate can increase up to 100% as occurs in last 3 years of present study.…”

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Trend of HIV seroprevalence among antenatal women at tertiary care hospital in North India, eleven years retrospective study

Dwivedi

Jahan

Srivastava

et al. 2017

Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol

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Background: Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is spreading worldwide at an alarming rate and India has third largest number of estimated people living with HIV/AIDS in the world. Estimating the HIV seroprevalence in a low risk population such as pregnant women provide essential information for monitoring trend of HIV in general population and assist in prevention from mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV infection. Only few studies are available from this part of northern India. So we carried out this study to find out seroprevalence of HIV in pregnant women at tertiary care hospital of Uttar Pradesh, India.Methods: Blood samples were collected from pregnant women attending antenatal clinic of GSVM Medical college, Kanpur, U.P, India. after pretest counseling and inform consent from September 2005 to July 2016. The samples are tested as per National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) guidelines.Results: Among 38794 pregnant women counseled, 34924(90.02%) accepted HIV testing. 102 women out of 34924 were found HIV seropositive with prevalence rate of 0.3%. Among seropositive women, majority were Hindu (88.2%), housewife (89.2%), multigravida (62.7%), studied up to primary or secondary (78.4%), of low socio-economic status (74.5%) and belongs to rural area (67.6%). Majority of HIV seropositive (34.3%) women were in age group of 25-30 years followed by 21-25years (25.4%). HIV seroprevalence rates showed an increasing trend from 0.14% in 2006 to 0.49% in 2016 (till July).Conclusions: Seroprevalence of HIV infection amongst antenatal women was 0.3%in past 11 years which is in increasing trend in contrast to other studies and slightly higher than national projection (0.29%). It concludes that it is right time to strengthen prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services by joint efforts of the private and public sectors.

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“…15 Similarly S. Parameshwari et al in Namakkal PPTCT Center of Chennai, found that over a period of five years 56 antenatal women tested positive, 47 (83%) of them received Nevirapine and Nine were lost to follow up. 16 This shows that acceptance of PPTCT Services have improved over the years. The pregnant women are coming forward & utilizing the services reducing the transmission of the virus which is a good trend.…”

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A cross sectional study to find out the efficacy of prevention of parent to child transmission services providing centers of Indore division

Jain

Khatri

Yesikar

et al. 2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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A program on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV at government hospital, Tiruchengode taluk, Namakkal district

Cited by 24 publications

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Declining Hiv Seroprevalence Among Pregnant Women in South Odisha, India: A Six and Half Year Tertiary Care Hospital Based Study

Declining Hiv Seroprevalence Among Pregnant Women in South Odisha, India: A Six and Half Year Tertiary Care Hospital Based Study

Trend of HIV seroprevalence among antenatal women at tertiary care hospital in North India, eleven years retrospective study

A cross sectional study to find out the efficacy of prevention of parent to child transmission services providing centers of Indore division

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