AIDS e grau de escolaridade no Brasil: evolução temporal de 1986 a 1996

Abstract

This article analyzes the temporal distribution of reported AIDS cases by level of education used as a proxy variable for individual socioeconomic status. All AIDS cases aged 20-69 years and reported through May 29, 1999May 29, , with date of diagnosis between 1986May 29, -1996

Sexually transmitted infections, bacterial vaginosis, and candidiasis in women of reproductive age in rural Northeast Brazil: a population-based study

“…Although no case of HIV infection was observed, the important burden of STI indicates that women in Pacoti, and presumably elsewhere in rural Brazil, are at high risk along with the current spread of the AIDS epidemic towards smaller municipalities, lower income groups and women (Fonseca et al 2000(Fonseca et al , 2003. Therefore, our study calls for urgent control measures against STI in rural areas, including improved diagnostic and treatment facilities, and appropriate case management.…”

“…from Brazil, Papua New Guinea, and The Gambia (Walraven et al 2001, Mgone et al 2002, Soares et al 2003. STI, as well as bacterial vaginosis (BV), are considered to increase the risk of acquiring human immunodefiency virus (HIV) (Sewankambo et al 1997, Rottingen et al 2001.In Brazil, the HIV epidemic is characterized by changing dynamics, currently reaching new population groups, namely women, underprivileged individuals, and communities outside the great urban centres (Fonseca et al 2000, Brazilian Ministry of Health 2006. Reliable epidemiological data from Brazilian women on STI and other reproductive tract infections (RTI), such as BV and candidiasis, are scanty.…”

“…In Brazil, the HIV epidemic is characterized by changing dynamics, currently reaching new population groups, namely women, underprivileged individuals, and communities outside the great urban centres (Fonseca et al 2000, Brazilian Ministry of Health 2006. Reliable epidemiological data from Brazilian women on STI and other reproductive tract infections (RTI), such as BV and candidiasis, are scanty.…”

Expressão geográfica da epidemia de Aids em Campinas, São Paulo, de 1980 a 2005

“…This is a trend that has already been recorded in other regions of Brazil in the last decades. 6,7,10 Certain areas of Campinas have a higher male:female ratio than others, particularly districts situated in the central and northern areas of this city, close to the prison in Hortolândia, where former prisoners and their families have settled temporarily. The population of men infected with HIV/AIDS has a lower proportion in districts situated in the southwestern area of the city, suburbs with low values of ICV and high criminality rate.…”

“…11,12 After the fi rst decades, the epidemiological profi le of the disease changed, with a trend of HIV/AIDS dissemination in heterosexual men, women and children of all social classes, particularly affecting marginalized and vulnerable populations. 6,9,10,13 In a few years, it became one of the main causes of mortality in adults. 7,13 The male:female ratio of AIDS cases was 26.7:1 in 1985, decreasing to 1.5:1 in 2008.…”