Clinical And Socio-Demographic Profile of Patients Registered at Art Centre, SMIMER, Surat

Abstract

The current study was conducted to understand the clinical and socio-demographic profile of patients attending ART centre of SMIMER. All HIV positive patient came to ART centre, SMIMER were included in the study. Total 2357 patients were registered at ART centre of SMIMER during the study period with an average of 181 newly registered patients every month. Most of the patient were between 20 years to 50years of age, 37% were female, 73% were married and 25% were illiterate. At the time of registration 20% patient were in WHO stage 3 & 4 of AIDS while 56% had CD4 less than 250 cells/mm3.

Keywords

• ART
• HIV
• AIDS
• CD4
• WHO Staging of AIDS