Development of an HIV Clinical Cohort Database for Enhancing Epidemiologic Surveillance in Hong Kong

Author:

Shui Shan Lee 1,Lee Krystal Chi Kei2,Man Po Lee 2,Tse Ian Chi Tat3,Wai Lai Mak 4,Li Patrick Chung Ki,Ka Hing Wong 4,Sung Joseph Jao Yiu2

Affiliation:

1. Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Microbiology,

2. Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Department of Microbiology

3. The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Special Preventive Programme, Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong Government Department of Health

4. Department of Medicine, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Hong Kong

Abstract

The Hong Kong HIV Cohort Database is an observational cohort including all patients enrolled in 2 HIV specialist clinical services in Hong Kong. Basic demographics, HIV transmission category, and the diagnoses of AIDS were captured using a standardized template. As of December 2006, 2132 HIV cases had been registered in the database, representing two thirds of all reports submitted to the government’s surveillance system. Non-Chinese and young females ≤24 years were less represented in the cohort. Description of cohort cases was, however, more complete in terms of transmission category and presentation with AIDS-defining illnesses. Overall, Pneumocystis jirovecci, tuberculosis, and systemic mycosis accounted for a majority of AIDS cases within 3 months of HIV diagnosis. There was a gradual rise of HIV positive men having sex with men in the cohort, notably after 2002, an observation also made in other Asian countries.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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