home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Shareware Overload Trio 2
/
Shareware Overload Trio Volume 2 (Chestnut CD-ROM).ISO
/
dir26
/
med9410p.zip
/
M94A3108.TXT
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-10-25
|
2KB
|
36 lines
Document 3108
DOCN M94A3108
TI The effect of AIDS epidemic on the death patterns in Mulago hospital,
Uganda during 1993.
DT 9412
AU Sezi CL; Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):151 (abstract no. PB0030). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369467
AB OBJECTIVES: To document, compare and contrast the disease entities
causing death in 1973 pre-AIDS period and during the AIDS epidemic in
1993. METHODOLOGY: This was by retrospective analysis of the records
from the death register for 1973 and 1993. Causes of death were analysed
for the first 2000 cases in each year and the results expressed in
percentages. RESULTS: During 1973 tuberclosis accounted for 3%, malaria
1.4%, abortions, prematurity and stillbirths for 33% of the deaths; no
case of cryptococcal meningitis was recorded. However, twenty years
later during 1993, AIDS accounted for 15%, tuberclosis and malaria
doubled. Cryptococcal meningitis accounted for 2% of the deaths.
DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS: The increase in tuberclosis and malaria as
well as the appearance of cryptococcal meningitis during 1993 must be
attributable to the AIDS. The reduction in abortions, stillbirths and
prematurity could be partly attributable to reduced sexual activity due
to increased AIDS awareness and partly to family planning programmes and
improved health care. AIDS has thus drastically changed the death
patterns in Uganda.
DE Abortion/MORTALITY Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*MORTALITY
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/*MORTALITY Female Fetal Death
Human Infant, Newborn Infant, Premature Inpatients/*STATISTICS &
NUMER DATA Malaria/MORTALITY Meningitis, Cryptococcal/MORTALITY
Pregnancy Registries Retrospective Studies Tuberculosis/MORTALITY
Uganda/EPIDEMIOLOGY MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).