Prevalence of TB-HIV Co-Infection Among Patients Attending Debre Elias Health Center, East Gojjam, Ethiopia, From September 1, 2010-January 30, 2017.
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2018-08-05
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Addis Ababa University
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Tuberculosis is prominent cause of mortality next to human immune deficiency disease caused by human immune deficiency virus in the world. HIV/AIDS disease is the main risk factor for the development of TB as the major opportunistic disease for it. When TB and HIV/AIDS diseases infect humans together, their effects become extreme. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of TB-HIV co-infected patients who attended Debre Elias Health Center East Gojjam, Ethiopia, from September 1, 2010-January 30, 2017. The study done retrospectively based on secondary data registered on Standard National Medical Registry. As I assessed the Standard National Medical Registry purposively, totally, there was 2348 TB and HIV case related patients attended the health center from September 1, 2010-January 30, 2017. From 2348 patients, 1368 peoples HIV positive only, 360 TB patients only, and 620 patients were TB-HIV co-infected. In this study 2348 patients were study population and 620 TB-HIV co-infected of them were sample size selected by purposive sampling technique. Necessary data with important socio-demographic characteristics collected purposively from Standard National Medical Registry. Data checked manually and manipulated by crosstab chi-square descriptive statistics in SPSS version 20 software then, interpreted and expressed in percentage by using Table and graph. In this study the prevalence of TB-HIV co-infected patients were 247/620 (39.8%) males and 373/620 (60.2%) females, totally 620/2348 (26.4%). This prevalence was medium as compared with the prevalence done by different research at different area in different time. In this study statistically high risk factors, sex (p=0.003), age (p=0.000), marital status (p=0.000), educational status (p=0.000), occupational status (p=0.000) and residence (p=0.000) with the other factors had significant correlation to the development of TB-HIV co-infection. Since TB-HIV co-infection was great health challenge in the study area, integrated efforts from all stalk holders to reduced TB and HIV concomitant effect should implemented automatically.
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Standard National Medical Registry, SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science), HIV/AIDS, Prevalence, Tuberculosis