title: HIV prevalence in upper socioeconomic level hospital patients, 1991-1993.
abstract: Five elite, private hospitals in Bangkok serving the upper socioeconomic stratum of Thai society were sampled for HIV prevalence among unlinked, anonymous specimens collected from general inpatients (sampled 11/1991 to 1/1992) and from women in labor (sampled 5/1992 to 4/1993). The HIV-1 antibody positivity rate by ELISA/Western blot was 0.45% (9 of 2,000) among all inpatients, and 0.1% (1 of 1,000) among pregnant women. The latter rate was appreciably lower than rates between 1 and 2% found in sentinel surveys among pregnant women in public hospitals during comparable time periods, suggesting the epidemic is more advanced in lower socioeconomic groups.
authors.affiliation: HIV/AIDS Collaboration, Bangkok, Thailand.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Atikij
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lohsomboon
authors.forename: N L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Young
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Limpakarnjanarat
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Weniger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011247:Pregnancy; D015995:Prevalence; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies; D012923:Social Class; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology