Gyorgy HERDICS 1,2, Peri HAJ ALI 1,4, Katrina ZOLLER 4, Zuzana HAYDEN 1, Lubica HUNAKOVA 1, Jan BYDZOVSKY 1,4, Jaroslava DRGOVA 1, Milica PALENIKOVA 1,2, Alex TOPOLSKA 1, Jana OTRUBOVA 1,2, Anna MURGOVA 1,2, Maria POPOVICOVA 1, Helena KONOSOVA 1, Pavel CZARNECKI 1, Marian BAKOS 1, Kristina PAUER 1, Maria BIELOVA 1, Vlastimil KOZON 1,3, Natasa BUJDOVA 1,2, Martina DUBOVCOVA 1,2, Monika BOSNAKOVA 1,2, Dana GIERTLIOVA 1,2, Andrea GALLOVA 1,2, Lubica LIBOVA 1, Igor KMIŤ 1, Mário JANČOVIČ1, Ingrid HUPKOVÁ 1, Vladimír KRČMÉRY1, Gertruda MIKOLASOVA 1,2, Libusa RADKOVA 1,2, Robert VLCEK 1, Pavol TOMANEK 1,2, Eva GREY 1,2, Mary HARDY 1, Ibrahim AZUGUAR 1,2 and Petra HEIDER 1,3on behalf of the Working group of the ISAC-Infections in Catastrophes 5
1 Detention and Refugee Centers in Humenne, IZS Gabcikovo, St Lesley College, and St Dominik College, N Zamky, Michalovce, UH Nitra and Inst of Microbiology School of medicine, Commenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Rep, St John Neumann Institute Pribram, Czech Rep
2 Univ Refugee and Migrant Health programme UNHCR, Vamoszabadi, St Elizabeth Posts Heygeshalom, Vamoszabadi Hungary
3 Univ Gen Hosp Vienna Donau Univ, Krems and UNHCR Post Nickelsdorf Austria
4 Alexandria Veroia UNHCR and SEU Health Posts, Greece
5 Int. Soc. Antimicrob. Chemotherapy, WG ID in Catastrophes, ISAC Aberdeen, UK
Summary
Background: Malaria, Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/ AIDS are the 3 major killers among tropical and subtropical diseases, associated with substantial mortality mainly in Subsaharan Africa (90 percent) and South Asia (20 percent approx) and worldwide (up to 90 percent deaths in children under five).
Methods: Rapid tests for malaria (PFRCG based RDT MaAL) HIV (WB Abbot Rapid HIV test) and TB (structured WHO verbal dg questionnaire) have been used for 10937 migrant families in Greece islands, and Greece Mainland, 133 Hungarian Austrian and 101 Slovak Ukrainian transitors (TB, HIV), located in detention UNHCR facilities, to asess the occurence of those three tropical and subtopical diseases.
Results: Occurence of TB Malaria and HIV was exceptional, only 6 cases of HIV seropositivity 5 TBC positive results and 3 positive PFRC RDT for malaria were documented in 2015-2019.
Conclusion: The 3 major killers in tropics represent only very low proportion of cases among ID – screening among migrant families PS Coping from Middle East to CEE.
Key words: Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV.
Lek obz, 2020, 69(5): 165-167
