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Sentinel Surveillance Results Presented in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
At conferences in May and June, the National AIDS Centers in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan introduced results of the HIV sentinel surveillance conducted with assistance from USAID through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The surveillance data focused on the levels of HIV, hepatitis C, and syphilis among intravenous drug users (IDU), commercial sex workers, pregnant women, and patients of clinics for treatment of sexually-transmitted infections. This was the first sentinel surveillance conducted in Tajikistan. It included two sites: Dushanbe and Khojand. Data has been collected in Uzbekistan since 2004 and currently includes Tashkent City and Oblast, Samarqand, Andijan, and Surkhandarya.
Results in Uzbekistan showed 20% and 5% HIV prevalence among IDUs and commercial sex workers, respectively, an indication that injecting drug use remains the main mode of transmission. In Tajikistan, surveillance revealed that almost 16% of drug users are infected with HIV and 43% with hepatitis C; 23% of commercial sex workers are infected with syphilis. The prevalence of risky practices was found to be very high, while awareness was low about modes of transmission. The surveillance also showed that migrants are becoming a risk group for HIV transmission. In addition, 0.5% of pregnant women were found to be infected with HIV—the highest rate in the region.
USAID, through the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), supports the region’s governments to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS data by providing training, new equipment, and methodology on HIV sentinel surveillance.
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USAID supports the region’s governments to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS data
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