Perfil sociodemográfico de pacientes portadores de HIV/AIDS internados no Hospital Universitário Alcides Carneiro para tratamento de infecções oportunistas nos anos de 2017 e 2018.

Abstract

Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), caused when infection of the Human Immudeficiency Virus (HIV) reaches a compromising stage for the host immune system, is now a pandemic that has already hit 74.9 million and wiped out 32 millions of people since its discovery, causing great socioeconomic, cultural and demographic impact. Brazil has been facing a transition in the HIV profile, moving towards feminization, pauperization, internalization, heterosexuality and juvenility - phenomena which were identified in a recent article in samples of populations living with HIV / AIDS in the capital from Paraíba state. The identification of the sociodemographic profile, as well as risk factors for the disease of key populations in different locations, is very important, since the profile of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is very variable depending on the locality and where they reside and its respective laws, public policies, socioeconomic conditions and various other factors. However, there are no recent scientific contributions on the subject about the population of the city of Campina Grande. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe the sociodemographic profile of patients with HIV/AIDS admitted to the Infectious Disease Service of the Alcides Carneiro University Hospital (HUAC) for the treatment of opportunistic infections. This is an observational cross-sectional survey to identify the main social and demographic characteristics, as well as possible risk factors, which counted with questionnaires applied to users admitted to the E ward in the same service as a data collection instrument, between August 2017 and July 2018. The predominant profile was of heterosexual men aged 50 to

54 years old, brown, illiterate, unemployed, or with a minimum wage income, non- drug users, with probable mode of viral transmission by sexual means, with urban

residence, single marital status with an average of 3 children, catholics, of whom 50% claimed to use condoms. Comparatively, the sociodemographic profile presented most of the variables similar to that shown by other researchers. However, regarding vulnerability and main risk factors associated with illness in the study sample, it was identified that there is a lower percentage of drug users, alcoholics and smokers when compared to the city of João Pessoa in the same state. The results brought new data, unpublished in the literature on the follow-up of inpatients with opportunistic infection affected by HIV/AIDS. It is concluded that the

sociodemographic profile of the population group studied follows the national standard except for the age group, which was predominantly over 50 years in the individuals studied in the current research.