Dynamics of TB-HIV Coinfection in the North Region before (2017-2019) and during the Pandemic (2020-2022)

• Autor(a) principal: Tomé Ribeiro, Luis Felipe
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Danielly Santos de, Rangel, Maria Eduarda Machado, Curzio, Ricardo Lopes, Silva, Fabio José Antônio da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://bjihs.emnuvens.com.br/bjihs/article/view/737
• topic: tuberculose; Vírus da Imunodeficiência Humana; Covid-19; Tuberculosis, Human immunodeficiency virus, COVID-19.

This article aims to compare cases of co-infection between tuberculosis and HIV in the northern region of Brazil, during the pre-pandemic period (2017 to 2019) and the post-pandemic period (2020 to 2022). This is an epidemiological study of the ecological type of temporal analysis with data obtained in September 2023 from the Department of Informatics of the Unified Health System (DATASUS) and originating from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN). Analysis of the graphs showed an increase in the lethality rate in 2020 in the northern region, which was not accompanied by an increase in the incidence of TB-HIV co-infection in the same period. In addition, there was a drop in the percentage of infections in the 2020-2023 triennium in the states of Amazonas and Pará, while in the states of Tocantins, Rondônia and Roraima the result was an increase in co-infection rates. Although more studies are still needed to analyze the underreporting of cases during the pandemic, it is inferred that the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the discrepancy in the incidence of new cases or notification of existing cases in the different states in the north of the country.