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Prevalence and Factors Associated With Syphilis in People Living With HIV/AIDS in the State of Pará, Northern Brazil
Syphilis continues to be a public health problem worldwide and its incidence has increased in people living with HIV/AIDS in recent years. This study determined the prevalence and factors associated with syphilis in people living with HIV/AIDS in the city of Belém, northern Brazil. A cross-sectional...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8381150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434909 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.646663 |
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author | Neto, Pedro Leão Fontes Fonseca, Ricardo Roberto de Souza Avelino, Maria Eduarda de Sousa Vilhena, Elizandro Monteiro Barbosa, Maria dos Anjos de Abreu Pina Lopes, Carmen Andrea Freitas Gomes, Samara Tatielle Monteiro Sequeira, Bianca Jorge Laurentino, Rogério Valois Freitas, Felipe Bonfim Oliveira-Filho, Aldemir Branco Machado, Luiz Fernando Almeida |
author_facet | Neto, Pedro Leão Fontes Fonseca, Ricardo Roberto de Souza Avelino, Maria Eduarda de Sousa Vilhena, Elizandro Monteiro Barbosa, Maria dos Anjos de Abreu Pina Lopes, Carmen Andrea Freitas Gomes, Samara Tatielle Monteiro Sequeira, Bianca Jorge Laurentino, Rogério Valois Freitas, Felipe Bonfim Oliveira-Filho, Aldemir Branco Machado, Luiz Fernando Almeida |
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description | Syphilis continues to be a public health problem worldwide and its incidence has increased in people living with HIV/AIDS in recent years. This study determined the prevalence and factors associated with syphilis in people living with HIV/AIDS in the city of Belém, northern Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to November 2018. A total of 500 people living with HIV/AIDS attended at a specialized unit of the public health network of the State of Pará were studied. Questionnaires were used to collect socio-demographic data and potential risk factors for syphilis. Blood samples were collected from all subjects and screened for syphilis using VDRL, and the seropositive were confirmed using FTA-abs. Logistic regressions were used to identify the factors associated with syphilis. Most subjects were male (56.8%), had more than 40 years (54.0%), single (63.0%), had finished high school (54.2%), had monthly income ≤1 minimum wage (72.4%), and had been born to the city of Belém (59.8%). Prevalence of syphilis was 6.4%. Eight characteristics/behaviors associated with syphilis: male, young adults, single, studied at least high school, monthly income >1 minimum wage, homosexual/bisexual, does not use or sporadically use condoms during sexual intercourse, and have had more than one sexual partner in the last three months. The prevalence of syphilis in people living with HIV/AIDS in Belém is low when compared to other Brazilian states. However, there is a need for public policies and actions to monitor, control and prevent these two sexually transmitted infections. |
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spelling | pubmed-83811502021-08-24 Prevalence and Factors Associated With Syphilis in People Living With HIV/AIDS in the State of Pará, Northern Brazil Neto, Pedro Leão Fontes Fonseca, Ricardo Roberto de Souza Avelino, Maria Eduarda de Sousa Vilhena, Elizandro Monteiro Barbosa, Maria dos Anjos de Abreu Pina Lopes, Carmen Andrea Freitas Gomes, Samara Tatielle Monteiro Sequeira, Bianca Jorge Laurentino, Rogério Valois Freitas, Felipe Bonfim Oliveira-Filho, Aldemir Branco Machado, Luiz Fernando Almeida Front Public Health Public Health Syphilis continues to be a public health problem worldwide and its incidence has increased in people living with HIV/AIDS in recent years. This study determined the prevalence and factors associated with syphilis in people living with HIV/AIDS in the city of Belém, northern Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to November 2018. A total of 500 people living with HIV/AIDS attended at a specialized unit of the public health network of the State of Pará were studied. Questionnaires were used to collect socio-demographic data and potential risk factors for syphilis. Blood samples were collected from all subjects and screened for syphilis using VDRL, and the seropositive were confirmed using FTA-abs. Logistic regressions were used to identify the factors associated with syphilis. Most subjects were male (56.8%), had more than 40 years (54.0%), single (63.0%), had finished high school (54.2%), had monthly income ≤1 minimum wage (72.4%), and had been born to the city of Belém (59.8%). Prevalence of syphilis was 6.4%. Eight characteristics/behaviors associated with syphilis: male, young adults, single, studied at least high school, monthly income >1 minimum wage, homosexual/bisexual, does not use or sporadically use condoms during sexual intercourse, and have had more than one sexual partner in the last three months. The prevalence of syphilis in people living with HIV/AIDS in Belém is low when compared to other Brazilian states. However, there is a need for public policies and actions to monitor, control and prevent these two sexually transmitted infections. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8381150/ /pubmed/34434909 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.646663 Text en Copyright © 2021 Neto, Fonseca, Avelino, Vilhena, Barbosa, Lopes, Gomes, Sequeira, Laurentino, Freitas, Oliveira-Filho and Machado. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Neto, Pedro Leão Fontes Fonseca, Ricardo Roberto de Souza Avelino, Maria Eduarda de Sousa Vilhena, Elizandro Monteiro Barbosa, Maria dos Anjos de Abreu Pina Lopes, Carmen Andrea Freitas Gomes, Samara Tatielle Monteiro Sequeira, Bianca Jorge Laurentino, Rogério Valois Freitas, Felipe Bonfim Oliveira-Filho, Aldemir Branco Machado, Luiz Fernando Almeida Prevalence and Factors Associated With Syphilis in People Living With HIV/AIDS in the State of Pará, Northern Brazil |
title | Prevalence and Factors Associated With Syphilis in People Living With HIV/AIDS in the State of Pará, Northern Brazil |
title_full | Prevalence and Factors Associated With Syphilis in People Living With HIV/AIDS in the State of Pará, Northern Brazil |
title_fullStr | Prevalence and Factors Associated With Syphilis in People Living With HIV/AIDS in the State of Pará, Northern Brazil |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence and Factors Associated With Syphilis in People Living With HIV/AIDS in the State of Pará, Northern Brazil |
title_short | Prevalence and Factors Associated With Syphilis in People Living With HIV/AIDS in the State of Pará, Northern Brazil |
title_sort | prevalence and factors associated with syphilis in people living with hiv/aids in the state of pará, northern brazil |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8381150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34434909 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.646663 |
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