Background: There was high prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections among HIV-infected patients due to poor personal hygiene and suppressed immune system. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in HIV-infected patients who are on anti-retroviral therapy (ART). Objective: To assess and determine the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection and associated risk factors among HIV patients attending ART. Materials and Methods: An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted from April 2015 to June 2015. The present study included 150 study participants. The study participants were selected conveniently. Socio-demographic characteristics and other related data were collected by using interview based semi-structured questionnaire. Patients` record was assessed to obtain their current CD4 cell count status during the study period. Assessing current CD4 cell count helps identify the status of intestinal parasite infection among HIV patients with respective the CD4 count status. Labeled plastic cups were used to collect stool specimen from each study participants. Descriptive statistics, bi-variate and multivariate logistic regression were performed using SPSS-V 20 software. P value less than 0.05 was used as statistically significant. Result: Direct wet mount, Formol-Ether Concentration and modified Ziehl-Neelson staining was done only for 120 individuals, and intestinal parasites were detected in 54 (45.0 %) of the study participants harboring one or more parasites. Among the detected intestinal parasites, A. lumbricoid accounted for 11.7% followed respectively by E. histolytica (9.2%), S. stercolaris (7.5%) and opportunistic parasites (5.0%). Conclusion and recommendation: Health education about personal hygiene and regular de-worming is very essential for HIV-infected patients.

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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Intestinal Parasite Infections in HIV/AIDS Patients with Anti-Retroviral Treatment in South West Ethiopia

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has continued to pose a lot of challenges to global health. About 4.5 million infected people live in Nigeria (Tyodugh et al., 2012). The infection is known to have altered both epidemiology and outcome of opportunistic parasiticinfections hitherto known as one of the most significant causes of illness in developing countries (Tian et al., 2012). Parasitic infections reported as the hallmark of AIDS (Ramakrishnan et al., 2007) have also been reported to have no significant difference in prevalence between HIV positive and HIV negative individuals (Berenji et al., 2012; Yosefi et al., 2012). In fact, Poka and associates posited that the prevalence of these parasites has more to do with sanitary status and living conditions than immune status (Poka et al., 2012). ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Number 4 (2015) pp. 768-776 http://www.ijcmas.com

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Intestinal Parasitosis among HIV Positive Patients Accessing Healthcare in a Medical Centre in Norhtern Nigeria