Open AccessRural epidemiology of HIV positive tribal patients from Chhattisgarh in India
Author(s) -
Harminder Singh,
Naveen Dulhani,
Nel Kumar Bithika,
Pawan Tiwari,
Vks Chauhan,
Prabhakar Singh
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/0974-777x.59249
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , epidemiology , transmission (telecommunications) , demographics , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pediatrics , environmental health , immunology , population , sociology , electrical engineering , engineering
The primary objective was to study the epidemiology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive tribal patients, and the secondary objective was to study the associated comorbidities in a tertiary care hospital in the tribal (Bastar) region of Chhattisgarh, India, between December 2006 and November 2008, and their relation to CD4 counts.