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AIDS and hospital bed occupancy: an overview[Note 1. Paper presented at ‘The Hospital in Africa’, 37th International ...]
Author(s) -
Buvé Anne
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
tropical medicine and international health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1365-3156
pISSN - 1360-2276
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-235.x
Subject(s) - occupancy , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , environmental health , developing country , demography , geography , family medicine , economic growth , biology , ecology , sociology , economics
In several countries of sub‐Saharan Africa more than 10% of the adult population are infected with HIV, while in large towns such as Kampala, Lusaka, Blantyre, Kigali and Harare this proportion exceeds 25%. One of the most obvious consequences is the increased occupancy of hospital beds by patients with HIV infection, perhaps to the exclusion of patients with other ailments. This paper gives an overview of several hospital occupancy studies.