Research Article
Prevalence of Blood-Borne Viruses in Health Care Workers of a Northern District in Pakistan: Risk Factors and Preventive Behaviors
Table 1
Gender-, occupation-, and agewise distribution of the sample population.
| Occupation | Male/female | Total |
| Technicians | 27/11 | 78/8 | 35/1 | 3/0 | 143/20 | 163 | Ward boys | 37/0 | 61/2 | 64/1 | 18/1 | 180/4 | 184 | Midwives | 0/1 | 0/8 | 0/20 | 0/22 | 0/51 | 51 | Nurses | 2/13 | 13/27 | 8/9 | 0 | 23/49 | 72 | Sweepers | 20/0 | 21/1 | 25/2 | 15/1 | 81/4 | 85 | Doctors | 6/1 | 30/5 | 23/1 | 5/0 | 64/7 | 71 | Age | 20–30 | 31–40 | 41–50 | 51–60 | — | 626 |
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