| psycho-social aspects of hiv infection and aids in multiple transfused thalassemic children. | two hundred and three multi-transfused children with thalassemia attending the thalassemia clinic of the charak palika hospital, new delhi were screened for human immuno-deficiency virus (hiv) antibodies by elisa test. all positive cases were confirmed by the western blot test. of the 203 children screened, 17 (8.37%) were hiv seropositive and the other 3 children referred to the aiims were from neighbouring states. these children were compared with 20 age matched hiv negative thalassemics as co ... | 1992 | 1452260 |
| behavioural risk factors for acquisition of hiv infection and knowledge about aids among male professional blood donors in delhi. | in 1989-90 a study was carried out in delhi of the risk behaviours and epidemiological characteristics exhibited by 15 paid blood donors who were positive for human immunodeficiency (hiv) virus and on 100 paid seronegative donors. all the donors were male. compared with the seronegative donors, a significantly greater proportion of seropositive donors were unmarried, had lived in at least two cities in the previous 5 years, donated blood at least once per month, were heterosexually promiscuous, ... | 1991 | 1893506 |
| acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) in multitransfused children with thalassemia. | two hundred and three multi-transfused children with thalassemia attending the thalassemia clinic of the charak palika hospital, new delhi were screened for human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) antibodies by elisa and all positive cases were confirmed by western blot. of the 203 children screened, 18 (8.9%) were hiv positive, and in these children a detailed immunological work up was done and compared to 18 age-matched hiv negative thalassemics as controls. the tests included absolute lymphocyte c ... | 1993 | 8288325 |
| increasing trend of hiv seropositivity in a sexually transmitted diseases centre and epidemiology of hiv seropositive individuals. | 11,539 std clinic attenders and 20,897 antenatal clinic (anc) attenders at a new delhi hospital were screened for hiv antibodies by elisa over a 3-year period. results were confirmed by western blot. a low hiv seropositivity rate (1 per 1000) with an increasing trend in 1993 (4 per 1000) was observed in the std attenders as against 0.1 per 1000 in the normal control populations. most of the std attenders including all the hiv seropositives had heterosexual contact with female sex workers. both t ... | 1996 | 8652712 |
| low prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (hiv-1) infection in population attending a major hospital in new delhi, india. | during 4 year period between april 1990 and march 1994, 4120 specimens from the patients attending out patient departments of medical, surgical and antenatal units of a major city hospital were tested for hiv infection as a part of an on-going sentinel surveillance programme. in addition, 1440 specimens from the patients attending std clinic of the same hospital and 862 females seeking termination of pregnancy from a near by hospital were included for comparison. it was found that only 3 individ ... | 1996 | 8778180 |
| hiv-2 prevalence in uttar pradesh. | serum samples collected since 1989 with various patterns of reactivity for human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)-1, on the basis of screening elisa and confirmatory western blot (wb) test, were subjected to the detection of hiv-2 infection based on screening dot immunoassay and confirmatory wb for hiv-2. significant prevalence of hiv-2 infection was (37.03%) among sera reactive for hiv-1 by elisa but indeterminate by western blot, compared with sera reactive for hiv-1 by elisa and wb (3.29%) or neg ... | 1996 | 9062036 |
| analysis of quality assurance programmes for hiv screening in blood transfusion centres in delhi. | the safety of blood transfusion has attained tremendous importance because of the problems posed by acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) and other transfusion-transmissible diseases. while performing screening tests for human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) antibodies in donated blood is indispensable, it is also essential to introduce an effective quality assurance programme covering inspection of specimens, review of record-keeping, maintenance of equipment, and verification of results. we c ... | 1997 | 9277009 |
| prevalence of transfusion associated infections in multitransfused children in relation to mandatory screening of hiv in donated blood. | any change in risk behavior related to acquisition of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection is likely to reduce simultaneously the risk for other agents transmitted through identical routes. a study carried out in the city of delhi, india on the load of transfusion associated infections among multitransfused (mt) children in relation to mandatory screening of hiv infection in donated blood indicated unchanged prevalence of hepatitis b virus (hbv), hepatitis c virus (hcv) and hepatitis d v ... | 1997 | 9656388 |
| a constitution for aids. | the indian health organization projected the number of deaths per day due to aids by the year 2000 at 10,000. an interdisciplinary international conference was held in new delhi to draft an international law governing the issues related to aids. human freedom and public health policies are the most affected by this disease. in the absence of an international aids law, judicial verdicts set precedents and could have serious ramifications. a participant from the john marshall law school, chica ... | 1996 | 12179199 |
| hiv, drug use, unsafe sex -- bad news. | the institute of human behaviour and allied sciences (ihbas), delhi, in collaboration with the national institute on drug abuse, usa, organized a four-day indo-us workshop on behavioural and social research for injectable drug abuse and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) prevention. the workshop was sponsored by the national aids control organisation, ministry of health & family welfare, government of india, medical council of india, indian council of medical research, national institute on dru ... | 1996 | 12179219 |
| hiv / aids: not just a matter of statistics. the international conference on aids - law and humanity culminates into "new delhi declaration and action plan on aids". | the indian ministry of health and family welfare and the indian law institute with the cooperation of undp, the world health organization (who), and other national and international groups organized the international conference on aids--law and humanity, held during december 6-10, 1995, in new delhi, india. the leading speakers focused on the need for a united approach to the hiv/aids-related legal issues, which would protect society against the spread of hiv infection and respect the dignity a ... | 1996 | 12347022 |
| risk factors of herpes simplex virus type 2 among std clinic attenders in delhi, india. | the present study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors associated with hsv-2 infection among sexually transmitted diseases (std) clinic attenders of delhi in india. out of 128 patients included, 76 were males and 52 were females. antibodies to hsv 1 and 2 and hiv infection were determined by elisa. syphilis seropositivity was determined by vdrl test and confirm by tpha test. ulcer scrapping were stained by giemsa for herpes progenitalis and donovan bodies and grams for ... | 2006 | 17913210 |
| community-based study on seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection in new delhi. | to determine the seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 2 (hsv-2) in two urban communities in delhi and to correlate the presence of hsv-2 seroprevalence with sociodemographic profile, risk factors and presence of other reproductive tract infections (rtis). | 2008 | 18227595 |
| modern and ancestral genotypes of mycobacterium tuberculosis from andhra pradesh, india. | traditionally, the distribution of the mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes in india has been characterized by widespread prevalence of ancestral lineages (tbd1+ strains and variants) in the south and the modern forms (tbd1(-) cas and variants) predominating in the north of india. the pattern was, however, not clearly known in the south-central region such as hyderabad and the rest of the state of andhra pradesh where the prevalence of both tuberculosis (tb) and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv ... | 2011 | 22114678 |