RISK FACTORS OF HIV INFECTION AMONG THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE MIGRANT POPULATION OF THE FAR NORTH | Zendy

P.V. Istomin | Zendy; Ludmila Volova | Zendy; В В Мефодьев | Zendy; A. A Romanova | Zendy

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RISK FACTORS OF HIV INFECTION AMONG THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE MIGRANT POPULATION OF THE FAR NORTH

Author(s) -

P.V. Istomin,

Ludmila Volova,

В В Мефодьев,

A. A Romanova

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

epidemiology and infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2411-3026

pISSN - 1560-9529

DOI - 10.17816/eid40966

Subject(s) - indigenous , population , transmission (telecommunications) , demography , incidence (geometry) , tuberculosis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , geography , immunology , environmental health , biology , ecology , physics , optics , pathology , sociology , electrical engineering , engineering

In the Far North are the most vulnerable to HIV infection by representatives of indigenous peoples living in the national villages, aged 20-29 years old, female. Due to the close relationship between the indigenous inhabitants of possible drift of HIV infection in the community tundra nomadic population. In the group of HIV-positive indigenous peoples in 100% have sexual transmission for migrants - 68,9%. For HIV-infected natives are characterized by a high incidence of sexually transmitted infections, alcoholism, tuberculosis, for alien population - chronic viral hepatitis. In HIV-infected persons indigenous have lower levels of CD4 lymphocytes, CD4/CD8 ratio compared with the migrant population.

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