Survey of infection status of human immunodeficiency virus among women in reproductive age in Mauritania

Guoxing TENG; Yonghong ZHANG; Shoujun LIU; Zhijian JIANG

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:

Data suggested that there were 24.5 million of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected women in 16 countries in southern Sahara Africa.

OBJECTIVE:

To survey the HIV infection status among women in reproductive age in Mauritania so as to provide research direction and basic data for prevention and treatment of immunodeficiency diseases.

DESIGN:

Random sampling survey.

SETTING:

Epidemic Disease & Health Statistics Department of Radiation Medicine and Public Health College of Suzhou University;Institute of Iodin Absence of Harbin Medical University;and Public Health College and Epidemic Disease & Health Statistics Department of Harbin Medical University.

PARTICIPANTS:

The survey was conducted in the 14 main cities of the whole country from March to June 2001. Inclusion criteria Women were in reproductive age, aged 15-49 years, from Mauritania; and all told the fact.Exclusion criteria Women refused survey and not in reproductive age were excluded.Among 331 548 women,4 000-6 000 samples were surveyed and the sampling rate was 1.2％-1.8％.

METHODS:

Venous blood and isolated sera of women in reproductive age were collected. Sera were detected by ELISA test and confirmed by Western Blot test in order to know HIV infection and its subtypes.The detection rates of different population and cities were calculated and made statistical analysis.MAIN OUTCOME

MEASURES:

The infection and subtypes of HIV; infected rate of HIV among different crowd in different cities.

RESULTS:

Among 4 648 women in reproductive age in 13 provinces, 24infected cases aged of 15-49 years were found with the infected rate of 0.516％,of them 22 cases were infected with HIV-1 and 2 cases were in fected with HIV-2. The detection rates were 0.500％-1.010％ (5 cities), 0-0.500％ (3 cities) and 0％ (5 ities) respectively. The age of 95.83％ of the total infected cases was 15-29 years. The number of the HIV-infected cases was about 1 400 persons among women in reproductive age in 13 main cities.

CONCLUSION:

The total HIV-infected detection rate was 0.516％ among women in reproductive age in 13 main cities of Mauritania.HIV-1 2 was the dominant subtype. HIV infection was different among regions. HIV-in fected cases aged 15-29 constituted more than 95％ of the total cases. The prevalent trend of AIDS was in the stage of transmission after importing.