A STUDY OF 395 NEWLY DIAGNOSED HIV POSITIVE GERIATRIC CASES

Mangala Sonavani Borkar; Gajanan Surwade; Shailaja Rao; Sandip Uppod; Rohit Walse; Jyoti Ghatge

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2017

A STUDY OF 395 NEWLY DIAGNOSED HIV POSITIVE GERIATRIC CASES

Mangala Sonavani Borkar, Gajanan Surwade, Shailaja Rao, Sandip Uppod, Rohit Walse, Jyoti Ghatge

Abstract :

This retrospective study of newly diagnosed HIV infection in patients in the geriatric age group ( 60 years and more)was carried out in the ART Plus Center of a tertiary care Medical College . 395 of the 13329 registered HIV positive cases belonged to this group( 2.96percent). Though this group forms a small proportion of the total cases and is much smaller as compared to that in Western countries, it emphasises the need to step up awareness and testing in the geriatric age group too, especially in those below 70, who are likely to be sexually active but may not practice safe sex.