Document 3108
 DOCN  M94A3108
 TI    The effect of AIDS epidemic on the death patterns in Mulago hospital,
       Uganda during 1993.
 DT    9412
 AU    Sezi CL; Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):151 (abstract no. PB0030). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369467
 AB    OBJECTIVES: To document, compare and contrast the disease entities
       causing death in 1973 pre-AIDS period and during the AIDS epidemic in
       1993. METHODOLOGY: This was by retrospective analysis of the records
       from the death register for 1973 and 1993. Causes of death were analysed
       for the first 2000 cases in each year and the results expressed in
       percentages. RESULTS: During 1973 tuberclosis accounted for 3%, malaria
       1.4%, abortions, prematurity and stillbirths for 33% of the deaths; no
       case of cryptococcal meningitis was recorded. However, twenty years
       later during 1993, AIDS accounted for 15%, tuberclosis and malaria
       doubled. Cryptococcal meningitis accounted for 2% of the deaths.
       DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSIONS: The increase in tuberclosis and malaria as
       well as the appearance of cryptococcal meningitis during 1993 must be
       attributable to the AIDS. The reduction in abortions, stillbirths and
       prematurity could be partly attributable to reduced sexual activity due
       to increased AIDS awareness and partly to family planning programmes and
       improved health care. AIDS has thus drastically changed the death
       patterns in Uganda.
 DE    Abortion/MORTALITY  Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*MORTALITY
       AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/*MORTALITY  Female  Fetal Death
       Human  Infant, Newborn  Infant, Premature  Inpatients/*STATISTICS &
       NUMER DATA  Malaria/MORTALITY  Meningitis, Cryptococcal/MORTALITY
       Pregnancy  Registries  Retrospective Studies  Tuberculosis/MORTALITY
       Uganda/EPIDEMIOLOGY  MEETING ABSTRACT

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