Research Article
HIV-HBV Coinfection among Individuals Attending the ICTC of a Tertiary Care Hospital in West Bengal, India
Table 1
Distribution of age, gender, and high risk behaviour among individuals attending ICTC clinic.
| | Groups | HIV Positives () | HIV/HBV Co-infection () |
| | Age (years) | | | | <5 | 6 (1.4%) | 0 (0%) | | 5–14 | 11 (2.5%) | 0 (0%) | | 15–20 | 45 (10.4%) | 2 (5.6%) | | 21–30 | 88 (20.3%) | 11 (30.5%) | | 31–45 | 212 (49%) | 21 (58.3%) | | >45 | 70 (16.2%) | 2 (5.6%) | | Gender | | | | Male | 287 (66.4%) | 30 (83.3%) | | Female | 145 (33.6%) | 6 (16.7%) | | High risk behaviour | | | | Heterosexual | 327 (74.7%) | 25 (69.4%) | | Men having sex with men | 16 (3.7%) | 2 (5.6%) | | Sex worker | 6 (1.4%) | 1 (2.8%) | | Injecting drug user | 17 (3.9%) | 1 (2.8%) | | Blood transfusion | 21 (4.9%) | 1 (2.8%) | | Mother to child | 21 (4.9%) | 0 (0%) | | Unknown | 24 (5.5%) | 6 (16.7%) |
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