Migration Health Unit, Department of Primary Health Care, AUSL Piacenza, Italy.
Infectious Diseases Unit, General Hospital of Piacenza, Italy.
J Prev Med Hyg. 2020 Oct 6;61(3):E445-E450. doi: 10.15167/2421-4248/jpmh2020.61.3.1528. eCollection 2020 Sep.
In the last ten years the number of asylum seekers has increased in all of Europe. Our Migrants Health Unit in Piacenza, Emilia Romagna, Italy, is designated to provide primary health care for migrants without a regular permit of stay and, since 2015, is the reference center for asylum-seekers in our Province. Aim of this study is to describe the results of the screening for infectious diseases performed in asylum seekers from January 2015 to December 2015. For any asylum seekers referred to our Centre, we recorded demographical data and we offered screening for HIV, HBV, HCV, syphilis and active tuberculosis (TB). Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the characteristics of the cohort. In 2015, 316 asylum seekers accessed to our Centre. Of them, the majority were men (N= 275; 87,03%). Africa was the most represented geographical area (221, 69,94%), followed from Asia (95, 30.06%). The median age was 25,4 years. 301 patients underwent chest X-Ray, that resulted negative in 262 cases (87%). HBsAg testing proved to be positive in 17 (5,3%) cases. The screening test for HCV, HIV and syphilis resulted respectively positive in 1.9%, 0.3% and 1.6%.
在过去的十年中，欧洲所有国家的寻求庇护者人数都有所增加。我们位于意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅大区皮亚琴扎的移民健康单位专门为没有合法居留许可的移民提供初级卫生保健服务，自 2015 年以来，它一直是我们省寻求庇护者的指定中心。本研究旨在描述 2015 年 1 月至 12 月期间对寻求庇护者进行传染病筛查的结果。对于任何转介到我们中心的寻求庇护者，我们记录了人口统计学数据，并提供了艾滋病毒、乙肝、丙肝、梅毒和活动性肺结核（TB）筛查。使用描述性统计来分析队列的特征。2015 年，有 316 名寻求庇护者进入我们中心。其中，大多数是男性（N=275；87.03%）。非洲是最具代表性的地理区域（221 人，占 69.94%），其次是亚洲（95 人，占 30.06%）。中位年龄为 25.4 岁。有 301 名患者接受了胸部 X 光检查，其中 262 例（87%）结果为阴性。HBsAg 检测结果呈阳性的有 17 例（5.3%）。HCV、HIV 和梅毒的筛查检测结果分别为阳性的有 1.9%、0.3%和 1.6%。
