Original Research Article
Year: 2017 | Month: January | Volume: 7 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 105-108
Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Amongst the Patients Coming for Dental Treatment at Rural Dental Hospital Loni
Aruna J Bhandari1, Akshay D Joshi2, Akshay Bhandari3
1HOD &Professor, 2PG Student, 3Assistant Professor
Dept of Prosthodontics, Rural Dental College Loni.
Corresponding Author: Akshay D Joshi
ABSTRACT
Dentists are doing dental procedure in oral cavity and are therefore coming in contact with blood and saliva which may be infected. HIV epidemic is not yet contained and prevention in populations most at risk needs to be enhanced and expanded; Hence HIV testing should be done in all patients undergoing dental procedures. The growth of HIV, unless contained, could have serious consequences for social development. National development response to began in 1992 and has shown early success rate in some states. This study is undertaken to find out the prevalence of HIV amongst the patients coming for dental treatment at Rural Dental Hospital, Loni a tertiary care hospital in rural Maharashtra. This will help in enhancing access and uptake of care and treatment services, ensuring systems and capacity for evidence based programming and building in country technical and managerial capacity.
Key words: HIV, blood screening, transmission, Epidemic.