Missed opportunities for HIV diagnosis among incarcerated people in the Federal District, Brasilia, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Moura, Rafael Jardim de
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Romero, Gustavo Adolfo Sierra
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/8062
• topic: Prisões; Prisioneiros; Infecções pelo HIV; Rastreamento do HIV; Oportunidades perdidas; Prisons; prisoners; HIV infections; HIV screening; missed opportunities; inmates; Prisiones; presos; infecciones por VIH; detección del VIH; oportunidades perdidas; reclusos

Objective. Evaluate the pattern of contact with the healthcare system, including prison health facilities, and HIV testing. Method. This was a quantitative case-control study of HIV infected and uninfected incarcerated people serving time in 2019 in the Federal District, matched by age. Results. There was no difference in the pattern of contact with the healthcare system or the pattern of testing between HIV-infected and uninfected incarcerated people. Most of the infected patients were diagnosed in the prison environment and had early infections, demonstrating the effectiveness of screening in this scenario. Conclusion: The pattern of contact with the healthcare system among the individuals in this study probably reflects that of young men in general, i.e., less contact with primary care outpatient services and trauma as the main reason for contact in emergency departments.