Socio-Economic Impact of HIV and AIDS in Tamil nadu

eported for the household members
during the year preceding the date of
interview. These are presented in the
Tables 7.1 and 7.2.
The tables clearly indicate that the
burden of non-hospitalised as well as
hospitalised illnesses is very heavy on
HIV households in comparison with
non-HIV households. In the case of nonhospitalised
illnesses, the prevalence
rate of illnesses in the age groups of 0-14
and of 15-59 is high for HIV households;
the prevalence rate in the age group of
60 years and above is slightly higher
in the case of non-HIV households. In
the case of hospitalised illnesses, the
reported number of cases is higher
for HIV households for all age groups.
What stands out is that in the age group
of 15-59 which comprises the largest
section of PLWHA, the burden on HIV
households is nearly three and a half
times that on non-HIV households with
respect to non-hospitalised illness and
is about five times greater in the case
of hospitalised illnesses. On the whole,
both, the rate of illness and the number
of hospitalisation cases, are lesser for
women than for men in both types of
households, the exception being the age
group of 0-14 in HIV households and
that of 60+ in both HIV and non-HIV
households.
Table 7.1
Prevalence rate of illness for the one-month reference period
by type of households and age and sex
(Per‘000 population)
Age group HIV households Non-HIV households
Male Female Total Male Female Total
0-14 492.1 567.2 528.5 409.5 339.0 375.5
15-59 1,442.3 963.1 1,177.2 354.3 325.8 340.7
60+ 911.1 1,038.5 979.4 953.9 1,190.0 1,056.5
All ages 1,071.3 850.9 954.6 396.6 365.5 381.8
Number of persons 715 805 1,520 2,587 2,350 4,937
Table 7.2
Reported number of hospitalisation cases in the reference year
by type of households and sex
(Per‘000 population)
Age group HIV households Non-HIV households
Male Female Total Male Female Total
0-14 90.6 84.0 87.4 43.9 41.4 42.7
15-59 771.6 328.2 526.3 78.4 66.3 72.6
60+ 488.9 365.4 422.7 230.8 310.0 265.2
All ages 511.9 258.4 377.6 78.5 71.1 74.9
Number of persons 715 805 1,520 2,587 2,350 4,937
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