I am interesting in finding prevalence/incidence rates of specific opportunistic infections of young age groups (not adult) from before and after the start of the AIDS epidemic (~1980).
In particular I am looking for trends in: Tuberculosis, Cryptosporidium, and Non-Typhi Salmonella.
Does anyone know if such data exists and where I can find it? I would want to look in an area where HIV/AIDS is widespread, so somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa would be ideal (or the whole region).
Would be amazed if there was much comprehensive data out there.
Little bit on TB in South Africa here - http://www.tbfacts.org/tb-south-africa.html
And some US data for comparison http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/tbcases.htm
From here, looks as though good quality data (such as it is) was only collected from 1990 onwards, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.TBS.INCD/countries?page=4 . From here, data is typically referred to from 1990 onwards too http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2285/. So anything prior to that might be rather patchy.
Having just written that, found this paper, though focus again on South Africa http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7051364
Thanks for your help Michael. I knew it would be a stretch to obtain this type of data. The research idea I had hinged on younger age group prevalence data starting from pre-AIDS era.
what about emerging opportunistic especially Cryptosporidium? might not be found
Hi Oliver,
the time individual computers started being used in a whitespread fashion (and, thus: 'easy data collecting' emerged) stretches from the beginning 90'ies in the industrialized world and a bit later in African countries. Hence, before that decade, there was virtually nothing in this respect, at least not in a representative fashion and/or the amount you are intending to obtain here. Sorry to say, the only slim chance would be to contact the respective officers at WHO.
good luck for your endeavour!
Sibylle
Thanks for your help Sibylle! I knew it would be a long shot, but I figured I would put it out to the research community to see if someone had any insight. I'll reach out to WHO to see if they have anything.
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