Abstract
Results 94.6% of the KS patients were HIV positive whereas 5.4% were HIV negative. The former had epidemic KS while the latter had endemic KS. The mean ages for the two types of KS were 34.9 years(standard deviation = 9.46) for epidemic KS and 34.5 years(standard deviation = 14.4) for endemic KS. The peak incidence of the former type of KS was in the age range 30 to 39 years whereas for the latter type it was more or less uniformly distributed in all the age groups from 10 to 59 years, with a slight peak in the 20 year age range(hence the large standard deviation). The male(M) to female(F) sex distribution for epidemic KS was 1.4:1 while for endemic KS it was 2:1. Also, endemic KS was more common in the low socioeconomic class unlike the epidemic type which cut across all socioeconomic strata.
Highlights
A high incidence of HIV/AIDS has been observed in Zambia
There is no significant difference between the mean age of epidemic and endemic Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) patients
Endemic KS was more common in the low socioeconomic class unlike the epidemic type which cut across all socioeconomic strata
Summary
Open Access from 2005 International Meeting of The Institute of Human Virology Baltimore, USA, 29 August – 2 September 2005. Published: 8 December 2005 Retrovirology 2005, 2(Suppl 1):P156 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-2-S1-P156. national Meeting of The Institute of Human Virology Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. [link 'here' using 'a href' to: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1742-4690-2-S1-
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