Perfil clínico e epidemiológico de Hanseníase em menores de 15 anos no serviço de referência da cidade de Campina Grande de 2002 a 2017.

Abstract

Hansen´s disease is an infective illness that attack the peripheral nerves and reveal essentially on skin. Different social, economic and psychological impacts are associated to this pathology (QUEIRÓS et al., 2016). Brazil is the only country of Latin America that doesn´t achieve the proposed goal by World Health Organization (WHO) for eradication of this sickness (IMBIRIBA et al., 2008). One of the indicators of lack of control and continuous transmission of the illness is the incidence of Hansen´s disease among children (EKEKE et al., 2014). OBJECTIVES: Delineate the epidemiological profile of younger than fifteen years old that were diagnosed with Hansen´s disease at the Serviço de Referência de Tuberculose e Hanseníase in Campina Grande- PB city. METHODOLOGY: It was be performed a transversal, observational and retrospective study, with qualitative analysis of acquired data from lookup of patient´s medical chart attended between 2002 and 2017 at the Serviço de Referência de Tuberculose e Hanseníase in Campina Grande-PB city. CONCLUSION: This study concludes with the clinical and epidemiological profile of younger than fifteen years old of Serviço de Referência de Tuberculose e Hanseníase within the quoted period that, despite the sample represents a small number of individuals, only the fact that there is still diagnosed children with Hansen´s disease made us reflect about the control condition of this illness in this city council.