Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2014

A Study of Co–Infection of HBV in HIV Patients

Dr Kar H, Dr Bhesania Hodiwala A, Mr Batazoo A

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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a Lenti virus a member of the retro virus family that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life threatening opportunistic infection and cancers to thrive. Owing to shared transmission route hepatitis B viral infection are highly prevalent among HIV infected patients. Our study shows, out of 8247 HIV suspected cases only 2 % (170/8247) were reactive for HIV and the prevalence of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection was 2.4% (187/7715). In total 170 patients were reactive for HIV and 187 patients were reactive for HBV and, 16 patients were reactive for both. This shows 9.4% (16/170) of seropositive patients were co–infected . In our study the commonest risk factors for transmission was unprotected sex which was 68.7% (11/16), intravenous drug use was the second most common risk factor, which was 31.2% (5/16) and the homosexuality was the least common factor, which was 6.2% (1/170). Maximum of HIV and Hepatitis B co–infected patients were of age group of 21–40 years which was 56.25% (9/16), followed by the age group 41 to 60 (37.5%) 6/16. The least age group were from 0 to 20 that was 6.25 % (1/16) and there were no any co infected patient above 61 years. The rate of progression and complications from viral hepatitis are accelerated in patients with HIV co–infection. After acquiring hepatitis B infection HIV infected individuals are more likely to develop chronic hepatitis B infections leading to hepatocellular carcinoma than HIV negative individuals. This represents another potential co–morbidity for patients with HIV infections. Early diagnosis and treatment with ART will increase the longitivity of seropostive patients irrespective of CD4+ count.

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Dr Kar H, Dr Bhesania Hodiwala A, Mr Batazoo A A Study of Co-Infection of HBV in HIV Patients Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.8 August 2014

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