Through the study carried out in 34 drug injection related AIDS patients in Binh Trieu hospital, which belongs to Binh Trieu center for rehabilitation and vocation in Ho Chi Minh City, the following conclusions have been gained: 1. 73.5% of the studied objects are over 40 years old and 91.2% of them are male. Most have low educational level, unemployed or are simple labour. Their HIV positive status is associated with unsafe practice, such as: long time of drug injection, high rate of sharing syringes and needles (77.8%), free sex and low rate of condom use (26.5%). 2. The common clinical features in AIDS patients include consistent fever, loss of weigh, consistent diarrhea and cough, etc. The most common opportunistic disease among people living with AIDS in Vietnam is tuberculosis (70.6%), candidiasis (41.2%), and other. 3. There are also immunological changes in AIDS patients: the decrease of T CD4, increases of T CD8, decrease of T CD4/T CD8 proportion. The IgG, IgA, IgM and beta2-microglobulin in the AIDS' serum are statistically higher than those in the healthy group.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; immunology ; diagnosis

1.Through the study carried out on 505 drug users, including 149 HIV positive drug users and 61 drug-use-associated AIDS patients in 3 drug treatment centers in Khanh hoa, Daklak provinces and Ho Chi Minh City from August to October 1997, the following conclusions have been gained: There are differences in age between groups (average : 30). 60.9% of HIV (-) drug users group were below 30 years old but 87.9% and 95.1% HIV (+) and AIDS groups were over 30 years old respectively. As many as 69.7% of subjects finished secondary school. Most of them were labors, doing small trade and some of them were jobless. 22% of them were reported divorced, separated and being widows/widowers. 37,8% had blood brothers who also were drug addicts. On the average, the study subjects had gone in drug treatment center around 2 to 4 times, with the highest frequency shown among HIV/AIDS groups. 2. The rate of drug users who were aware of AIDS prevention measures was high: 70.6% knew about the need of using clean needles and syringes; 80.9% understood that condom use help prevent HIV transmission. 3. However, safe practices were still applied at a low level: 57.1% of subjects shared injecting equipment, only 20.6% used disposable syringes; the rate of using condoms was 34.9%,of which 45.6% used condoms regularly and more condom use was reported during sexual intercourse with sex workers than with their wives.
HIV ; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

The study involved 75 drug-injected users who were positive with HIV in L¹ng Sn Province. Most of drug injected users with HIV(+) are young, age from 19 - 29 years of old. 60% of participants are Kinh people, 73.6% are non-religious. 100% have low education level (under 12-class level) and 74.6% are unmarried. Drug injection is the main cause of HIV infection in these subjects. 100% have shared syringe and needle, in which 94.7% reported about needle sharing with HIV infected people. 68% reported about sex relationship. 82,3% have sex relationship with sex commercial workers. 62.7% have not used condom in sex intercourse. 100% tested for HIV and had HIV infection, but only 84% were reported about their status. 2.7% had came to the China for drug injection. 41.4% had shared needle with Chinese drug users. 64.6% had sex relationship with sex commercial workers in whore-house and 14.3% had sex relationship with sex commercial workers in hotels in the China
Hypertension ; Blood Coagulation

This study involved 606 HIV/AIDS infected addicts and 371 addicts with negative HIV/AIDS (control) in 8 provinces in the North, Central and South of Vietnam, where have high rate of HIV/AIDS infection and drug addiction. Results showed that the immunodeficiency was a predominant biochemical feature among HIV/AIDS infected addicts. Young age, low of standard of living, poor knowledge of HIV/AIDS and unsafe behaviors were predominant biosocial features among addicts. There was obvious relation between some social features and immune changes among HIV/AIDS infected addicts. There was no significant changes of behavious of HIV/AIDS infected addicts. The model of reduction of bad impact had a good outcome
Substance-Related Disorders ; HIV ; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome