Document 2635
 DOCN  M94A2635
 TI    Cohort study of HIV infection among drug users in Ruili and other
       counties in Yunnan Province, China.
 DT    9412
 AU    Zheng XW; Zhang JP; Qu SQ; Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology,
       Chinese Academy of; Preventive Medicine, Beijing.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):26 (abstract no. 076C). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369940
 AB    In 1993, a second survey was conducted in Ruili City and other two
       counties in Yunnan Province, where a cohort study field had been
       established in 1992. 755 drug users including both HIV+ and HIV-, 102
       spouses of HIV infected IDUs were interviewed. 9 samples of 54 IDUs in
       the cohort study tested were seroconverters. The seroconversion rates
       (incidence rate) in IDUs (per hundred person year) in Ruili, Longchuan,
       and Luxi were 40, 12.2 and 0 respectively in 1993. The rates in the same
       area in 1992 were 43.2, 12.2 and 0. Among 108 subjects newly recruited
       IDUs, 38 were tested HIV positive. The seroprevalence rates in these
       three counties were 85.7%, 40.0% and 0 in 1993, in comparison to 81.8%,
       44.6% and 5.1% in 1992. The coordination was observed in the levels
       between seroconversion and seroprevalence. An increasing of
       seroprevalence among the spouses of HIV infected IDUs was also found:
       which was 3.1% in 1990; 9.8% in 1992 and 7.4% in 1993. More attention
       should be paid to Luxi county where the ratio of IV drug use increased
       rapidly among drug users, although fewer HIV positive subjects was found
       among the recent starter of IDUs.
 DE    China/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Cohort Studies  Female  Human  HIV
       Seropositivity/*DIAGNOSIS/EPIDEMIOLOGY  *HIV Seroprevalence  Incidence
       Male  Substance Abuse, Intravenous/*IMMUNOLOGY  MEETING ABSTRACT

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