Séroprévalence et profils de certains paramètres biochimiques des hépatites virales B et C chez les étudiants de l'Université de Dschang

CaHReF 2016, Yaoundé Conges hall, 23 – 26 August 2016 , PP09

The Viral Hepatitis B and C, with a respective prevalence rate of 8 to 20% in Africa, constitute a major public health problem. This high prevalence, constantly increasing, is linked in part to ignorance of the population on their modes of transmission and prevention processes available, especially on their attitudes to be screened late and refusing to be vaccinated. In order to correlate the prevalence of these diseases in the student of the Dschang University Community and their level of knowledge on Viral Hepatitis, a questionnaire on sociodemographic factors (age, sex, residence) modes transmission and prevention ways of Viral hepatitis, was Distributed to 208 students of this institute during a period of one month (from January 27 to February 27, 2015). Those who later met the criteria and who accepted to participate by signing the informed consent form were Subjected to a blood sample collection test for the detection of Hepatitis and the quantification of some biochemical indicators (transaminases, albumin, C-reactive protein).The analyses of demographic data indicate that, of all students surveyed; 71% belong to the age group 20 to 24 years with a mean age of 24.5 ± 7.5 years. Sixty-one percent (61%) of survey participants were women and 62.75% of them resided in Dschang. Only 6% of students had already been tested; half of them unaware of the vaccine against hepatitis B. knowledge remains confused regarding the modes of transmission and prevention as well as unprotected sexual intercourse is the main mode of transmission of these diseases. Clinical analyses revealed that, 15.15; 59,59; 12,12; and 15.15% respectively of the negative participants had abnormal ALT, AST, albumin, and C-reactive protein, respectively; against 37.5; 87.5; 0.0; and 62.5% in positive individuals.
From our study, the results show that, the seroprevalence of hepatitis B and C was 4.08% and 0.0% respectively and that these results could not be linked to their good knowledge in relation to these diseases.

eroprevalence, biochemicals parameters, viral hepatitis B, viral hepatitis C, and students