HIV/AIDS

Investigators at University of KwaZulu-Natal publish new data on HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 21st, 2009

"Adults with severe mental illness (SMI) display an increased prevalence of HIV compared with the general population. Recommendations for provider-initiated testing in South Africa lack robust evidence because the studies mainly from low-prevalence regions - overestimate the risk of HIV among adults with SMI," scientists writing in the Samj South African Medical Journal report.

"We aimed to assess whether the mentally ill are a vulnerable population in South Africa. All new admissions to an acute psychiatric ward from July to December 2000 were tested for HIV anonymously and the results linked with socio-demographic and clinical data. We did a restricted analysis...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-09-21)

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