JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v5i4.2469 jpsim.v5i4.2469 Original Research Frequency of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection in Diagnosed Cases of Tuberculosis (TB) at Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore Amin Ayesha ashmin_chaudhary@live.com * Khan Fahad Aman Khan Imran Imran Muhammad Qaisar Wafa Rauf Hafiz Abdul Al-Aleem Medical College, Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore *Correspondence: Ayesha Amin (ashmin_chaudhary@live.com) 09 12 2024 2024 5 4 707 710 20 06 2024 12 11 2024 Copyright © 2024 The Author(s) 2024 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

To find the frequency of HIV infection in patients where Tuberculosis is the established diagnosis, at Gulab

Devi Hospital, Lahore.

 Methodology

This study model is of a cross-sectional type and the study duration was 6 months spanning from 17-11-2022 to

16-05-2023 in Medicine and Pulmonology departments. Permission from the Ethical Review Board was sought and

consent was taken from the participating patients.

A total of 145 patients, already diagnosed cases of tuberculosis, of both genders, were enrolled in the study through non

probability consecutive sampling method. Consent about HIV screening was sought from all the patients and upon

agreement, ELISA test was performed and labelled as positive as per operational definition.

 Results

In our study group, 38.7±12.8 years was recorded as the patients' mean age. Out of the total 145 patients, 90

(62.1%) were males and 55 (37.9%) were of the female gender. Out of the total 145 patients, 76 (52.4%) had pulmonary

TB, and 69 (47.6%) had extra-pulmonary TB. Among the total 145 patients, 8 (5.5%) were found to have co-infection with

HIV, while 137 (94.5%) did not have HIV infection.

 Conclusion

The study concluded that 5.5% of diagnosed tuberculosis patients also had coinfection with HIV. This was predominantly recorded in patients aged 18 to 40 years.

 Keywords Tuberculosis HIV ELISA Ethics Statement

Ethics committee: Institutional Review Board, Al-Aleem Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan. Approval number: AAMC/IRB/EA162022, dated 05-09-2022.

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