The public network for health care of pregnant women with HIV, in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, includes primary and specialized care services. Objective: Evaluating whether the type of service interferes in the quality score of the health care in the experience of the pregnant women with HIV. Methods: Cross-sectional study, with data collection from April-November/2014, with 78 participants. The Primary Care Assessment Tool-Brazil instrument was applied and the Pearson's Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used. Results: The quality of care received was evaluated as unsatisfactory both in primary care (6.50) and in specialized care (6.35). Conclusion: The type of service interferes with the quality of care, which can affect women's choice of service. It is necessary to improve the quality of both types of services and to search for the management of shared care to attend both the usual care of gestation and the specificity of infection.
Las enfermedades crónicas como desafío para la sociedad actual Pocas cosas muestran de una forma tan verídica el progreso de una sociedad que la forma como sus miembros mueren. Como ejemplo concreto de la anterior información, somos testigos presentes de la prolongación de la esperanza de vida en la mayor parte de los países del mundo y cómo esta ha contribuido, junto con otros fenómenos complejos ligados al crecimiento económico y a la globalización, a un incremento progresivo de la prevalencia de problemas crónicos de salud y de situaciones de multimorbilidad, especialmente en las personas de edad más avanzada y en los grupos más desfavorecidos de la sociedad.
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