The context of people living with aids in a municipality in Amazonas

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Sayla Kessla Lobato da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Orfão, Nathalia Halax
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/15454
• topic: Perfil de Salud; VIH; Síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida.; Perfil de Saúde; HIV; Síndrome de imunodeficiência adquirida.; Health Profile; HIV; Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

This study aimed to analyze the management of AIDS cases in Humaitá, Amazonas, in the period from 2010 to 2019. It is a descriptive epidemiological study, carried out in a cross-sectional and quantitative approach through the records of people living with AIDS, accessible from the Ministry of Health's Indicators Panel and management tools from the municipality. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistical analysis in the Microsoft Excel program. It was found that the highest rate of case detection (29 cases/100 thousand inhab.) And gross mortality (5.4 deaths) were recorded in 2019; in pregnant women in 2014 (4.1 cases/ 100,000 inhab.) and in children under 5 years old in 2012 (20 cases/ 100,000 inhab.). There was a predominance of AIDS cases in men (63%), brown (76.1%), with complete high school (20.7%) and the category of exposure among males aged 13 years or over through heterosexual intercourse (53.6%). The actions and strategies are similar and are repeated over the years, involving the expansion of the Family Health Strategy, in addition to the CTA for screening by rapid testing, but without including the prevention of vertical transmission and / or monitoring of children under 5 years. In view of these findings, the importance of decentralized actions for prevention, the strengthening of strategies for monitoring cases, the structuring of the SAE, the provision of a complete multidisciplinary team, in addition to the involvement and inclusion of different actors in planning for the disease control.