Curry Chris, Bunungam Paul, Annerud Carolyn, Babona Diro
Fremantle Hospital, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.
Emerg Med Australas. 2005 Aug;17(4):359-62. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2005.00757.x.
To determine the prevalence of HIV antibody in patients presenting to the ED at Port Moresby General Hospital in Papua New Guinea.
Three hundred patients in whom blood samples were taken for investigation of illness or injury between April and July 2003 were surveyed for HIV antibodies. Sex, age and presenting illness were recorded.
Fifty-four tests (18%, 95% confidence interval [CI] 14-23%) were positive. Forty-seven per cent were men and 53% were women. The most common presenting illnesses were respiratory tract infections (37%) and gastrointestinal tract infections (26%). Because of resource constraints results were not linked to patients and there was no follow up.
These limited data support the prediction that the developing HIV/AIDS epidemic in Papua New Guinea will be serious.
确定巴布亚新几内亚莫尔斯比港总医院急诊科患者中艾滋病毒抗体的流行情况。
对2003年4月至7月期间因疾病或受伤而采集血样进行检查的300名患者进行了艾滋病毒抗体检测。记录了性别、年龄和就诊疾病。
54项检测呈阳性（18%，95%置信区间[CI]14 - 23%）。男性占47%，女性占53%。最常见的就诊疾病是呼吸道感染（37%）和胃肠道感染（26%）。由于资源限制，检测结果未与患者关联，也未进行随访。
这些有限的数据支持了关于巴布亚新几内亚艾滋病毒/艾滋病疫情将很严重的预测。
