Frequency of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection inDiagnosed Cases of Tuberculosis (TB) at Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore

Objective: To find the frequency of HIV infection in patients where Tuberculosis is the established diagnosis, at Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore.Methods: 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, 38.712.8 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.