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HIV SEROPOSITIVITY AND RELATED FACTORS AMONG PRISON ERS IN DIRE DAWA
YOHANNES KEBEDE
HIV antibody was detected in 27 of 450 prisoners (6.0%), in a crosssectional
study carried out in the major prison of Dire Daloia district, in
eastern Ethiopia. Syphilis was found to be very common in the prisoners.
Overall, 31.6% of the prisoners had a positive VDRL. The rate in
prisoners who were HIV positive was 63% or 17 out of 27. A concurrent
diagnosis of syphilis was strongly associated with HIV seropositivity.
(Odd's ratio = 4.09). Recent admission to prison within the past three
months was strongly associated with HIV positivity (Odd's ratio = 3.72);
21 of the 27 HIV positive prisoners had been in prison for less than three
months. Factors found important in other studies on prisoners and AIDS,
such as homos(3xuali ty and intravenous drug use were not found to be
features of prisoners in Dire Dawa. Surprisingly, significant
associations could not be proved between number of prostitute contacts or
number of sexual contacts per month before prison and HIV positivity
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- May 5, 1989
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