INCIDENCE OF STD AND PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE IN GUJARAT

Abstract

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus that causes HIV
infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (Douek et al., 2009). AIDS is a condition
in humans in which progressive collapse of immune system allows acute opportunistic
infections and cancers to thrive. In the present study carried out on 942 patients with various
sexually transmitted diseases 65 patients were found to be seropositive for HIV. Out of these
42 were males (64.61%) while 23 were females (35.38%) which are lower than Burzin et al.
(2006) from Ahmedabad reported 77.51% males and 22.49% females found seropositive for
HIV. This might be due to less no. of patients in our study. Large number of cases in males in
comparison to females is explained from the fact that in females the social stigma and
discrimination prevents the women to seek help of STD clinic facility, which in turn contribute
higher cases in males. Hence, our study support the males are affected than the opposite sex.
Among 65 HIV patients, herpes Progenitalis is the commonest STD with 28 cases (43.07%),
followed by Syphilis (18.45%), Mixed VDs (12.3%), Molluscum contagiosum (7.69%),
Gonorrhoea (6.15%), Chancroid (4.61%), Condyloma acuminate (3.07%), Granuloma
Inguinale (1.53%), Lymphogranuloma venereum (1.53%) and Nongonococcal urethritis
(1.53%) indicating that HIV is co-supplemented with STDs and such STD patients are high
risk of HIV Seropositivity.