Profile of elderly people with AIDS in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Brustolin,Juliano
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Lunardi,Thais Elisa, Michels,Naiara Maeli
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/109
• topic: Elderly, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, infectious disease transmission.

<p><b>OBJECTIVES:</b> Checking the profile of elderly patients with AIDS through some variable such as gender, race, education level and age, reported in southern Brazil and in Chapec&oacute; in the period from 1980 to 2009, who acquired AIDS through sexual transmission.<br> <b>METHODS:</b> This was an observational, descriptive and cross study, whose data were obtained by consulting the Datasus, and then arranged in sheets through the operational program Excel, and a cross was made with this data.<br> <b>RESULTS:</b> During the period between 1980 and 2009 there was an increase in AIDS diagnoses in elderly people in the studied region, and that those who had a higher prevalence of infection were men, heterosexuals, whites, aged between 60 and 69 years old and education level between 1 and 3 years (low education). This same behavior was repeated in Chapec&oacute; however, there were only elderly people contaminated by AIDS in 1995 and in the period between 2005 and 2009, the education level with the highest prevalence was 4-7 years followed by 8 to 11 years, although in this period there was a higher prevalence of elderly people between aged 70 and 79 years old.<br> <b>CONCLUSIONS:</b> The sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), in elderly population in southern Brazil and Chapec&oacute;, had an increase in the number of diagnoses during the studied period, especially in the males, heterosexual, white, between 60 and 69 years old and low education level.</p>