The look and care of the HIV patient in people deprived of liberty: An integrative review

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze which look and care to the HIV patient in people deprived of freedom, through electronic research in the databases Virtual Health Library (VHL), BIREME, LILACS. To obtain the data, a crossing was made with the Boolean operators, and and or, using the following descriptors: AIDS, Care and Person Deprived of Liberty, in order to facilitate the search, where 59 articles were found. The inclusion criteria were: articles available for reading in full and published in Portuguese or English, in the period between 2012 and 2022. Literature reviews, editorial letters, theses and dissertations were excluded, as well as full texts with controlled access. For the study selection stage, after the searches, duplicate studies were excluded and an evaluation of the titles and abstracts of the selected studies was started in order to verify if they fit the pre-defined criteria. Finally, the search resulted in 29 articles, most of which reported the difficulty of care for inmates who receive freedom in continuing the AIDS treatment, in addition to the need for public policies for this public as well as a rigorous work of health education and testing in the population deprived of freedom.