Epidemiological characteristics analysis on HIV infected people in Guangdong and Henan provinces

  Objective   To compare the epidemiological characteristics of HIV infected people between Guang dong province and Henan province.

  Methods   Face to face inter views with questionnaires about HIV infected people were conducted among 81 cases from Guangdong and 130 cases from Henan.

  Results   There were significant differences in the distribution of sex, age, education, marriage and transmission mode between two provinces.The ratio of male to female was 211:1 in Guang dong as well as 0.9:1 in Henan.The majority of HIV infected people were from 21 to 40 years old, accounting for 69% in Guangdong province.In Henan province, 76% were from 31 to 50 years old.The general education level of HIV infected people from Guang dong was higher than from Henan.Nearly half of whom were unmarried or divorced in Guang dong while 91.5% were married in Henan.In Guangdong 54.3% of HIV infected people were infected by sexual transmission and 23.4% were IDU, there was blood transmission too.In Henan, the blood transmission was the most dominant transmission, and sexual transmission was only between husband and wife.The average of CD₄⁺ cell number were lowerin Guangdong than in Henan, 57.2% of HIV infected people from Guangdong were lower than 200/mm³ while 70.6% from Henan were higher than 200/mm³.

  Conclusion   The epidemiological characters of HIV infected people were affected by social and economic factors of local regions.Taking effective measures according to these characters would be important to prevent HIV transmittion and improve the quality of life of HIV infected people.