Analysis of fatal outcomes in HIV infection

The Russian Federation holds the lead in the highest growth rates for the number of new cases of HIV infection and its prognosis remains poor for the years immediate ahead with the rapidly increased rates in the scope of its epidemic being borne in mind. In the Far Eastern Federal District, the Primorye Territory rates first in the number of cases of HIV infection. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and clinical characteristics of secondary and opportunistic diseases that were a cause of death in HIV-infected patients in the Territorial Clinical Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS and Infectious Diseases, Vladivostok, in 2007. In this year, the mortality rate was 13.6%, which was 1.6 times higher than that in 2006. Tuberculosis the incidence of which was 48.5% occupied the first place in the structure of secondary diseases resulting in a fatal outcome in HIV-infected patients. The proportion of hepatic cirrhosis was 22.9% in the structure of fatal outcomes.

HIV infection, fatal outcomes, Primorye Territory