Frequency of HIV and HBV Among Patients Referred to Routine Hematology Laboratory in Khartoum Teaching Hospital

Abstract

This is a descriptive study conducted to evaluate the frequency of HIV and HBV and the effect of gender ,blood or blood product transfusion history and Hepatitis B virus vaccination on the study among patients referred to routine Hematology Laboratory in Khartoum Teaching Hospital in June 2014. Ninety Already collected routine blood sample for complete blood count test were included in the study. Clinical data were collected using questionnaire .Among the studied patients (37) were male and (53) were female. 15 patients were with blood or blood product transfusion history . 3 patients were vaccinated against viral disease . After investigating the samples for HIV and HBV tests using ELISA in National Health Laboratory , the data were analyzed using computer program SPSS . HBV positive result was one (1.1%) and negative was eighty nine (98.9%) . HIV positive result was zero (0%) and ninety (100%) negative result . according to gender affect HBV distribution was insignificant ( p value 0.4) and gender not influence HIV result .affect of blood or blood product transfusion history was insignificant ( p value 0.6) in HIV result , HIV result not affected . The distribution of HBV among the studied according to vaccination against HBV was insignificant (p value 0.8) . The prevalence of HBV and HIV positive result was low and it was not affected significantly and it was not affected by either gender , blood or blood product transfusion history .