Evaluation of HIV Disease Burden in Hospitalized Patients at Sassoon General Hospital in Pune, India

This study was terminated September 13, 2005.

The goal of this project was to conduct both a retrospective and prospective epidemiological study of the burden of HIV disease at Sassoon General Hospital. The specific objectives of the study were to establish the proportion of HIV-infected individuals among hospitalized patients, to assess trends in the number of HIV-infected patients admitted, to establish the proportion of opportunistic infections and other co-morbid conditions present, to assess severity of illness and mortality of hospitalized HIB-infected patients.