Screening of HIV and Identifying Risk Factors among Premedical Students, Kafr El-Sheikh University, Egypt

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1 Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Kafrelshiekh University.

2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta Univer

3 Department of Tropical Medicine & Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University.

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Background and aim: HIV is a global public health problem. Many people in Egypt are afraid to get tested for HIV so the real situation remains unknown. The aim of this article was to determine HIV status and HIV related risk factor among Egyptian premedical students.
Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional survey using a self-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect data to identify HIV related risk factor beside serosurvey to detect HIV antibodies among 737 from a total of 1123 pre medical students in Kafr El Sheikh University (KFU) who agreed to participate in the study.
Results: The mean age of screened students was 18 ± 0.26 years. In total, 333 (45.2%) were males and 403 (54.8%) were females. Using HIV antibody testing; we did not find any positive HIV cases in our study. (7.5%) underwent any surgical procedure, (0.4%) received blood or blood product transfusions, and (0.1%) shared needle or syringe with others. While (42.8%) shared scissors, razors, and nail clippers with others and (57.3%) went ever to the dentist but none of them had any sexual relationships or HIV patient within the family.
Conclusion: We detected no cases of HIV or risky behaviors among Egyptian premedical students.

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