2014
DOI: 10.5935/1415-2762.20140024
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Vulnerability to HIV in adolescents: a retrospective study at a counseling and testing center

Abstract: O presente estudo objetivou identificar o perfil de vulnerabilidade e a sua relação com a escolaridade de adolescentes com sorologia positiva para o vírus da imunodeficiência humana (HIV) de um Centro de Testagem e Aconselhamento (CTA). O delineamento caracterizou-se como transversal retrospectivo. A amostra foi de 100 indivíduos de ambos os sexos, entre 13 e 19 anos de idade, com sorologia positiva para HIV, no período de 2002 a 2010, em um CTA da região Sul do Brasil. A média de idade foi de 17,7 anos, com s… Show more

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“…3 People living with HIV/AIDS in the study population were predominantly white male, 20 to 39 years of age, single and eight to 11 years of age, unlike literature , whose results were predominantly female and mean age was 17.6. 4 One study 7 also identified a majority of males and age distribution similar to this study, since 50% of the patients were aged between 21 and 40 years. Still, 74% of the patients declared themselves unmarried, given the agreement with this study.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 68%
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“…3 People living with HIV/AIDS in the study population were predominantly white male, 20 to 39 years of age, single and eight to 11 years of age, unlike literature , whose results were predominantly female and mean age was 17.6. 4 One study 7 also identified a majority of males and age distribution similar to this study, since 50% of the patients were aged between 21 and 40 years. Still, 74% of the patients declared themselves unmarried, given the agreement with this study.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 68%
“…In the second phase, the concept of "risk behavior" was adopted, due to the large number of injecting drug use contamination, reaching a larger number of heterosexuals, which, consequently, characterized the third and current phase, which was marked by increased cases in the female sex, people with low schooling and the internalization of AIDS, adopting the concept of "vulnerability." 4 The interest in the characterization and epidemiological profile of people living with HIV/AIDS is due to the fact that the literature wishes to show the great change that has been taking place. This study is justified by the need to know the characterization and epidemiological profile of HIV/AIDS cases registered in regional referral services, as well as the reality of this condition in the region.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…O ambiente de vivência define o comportamento individual de cada sujeito, e quando se trata de jovens soropositivos é identificado uma exclusão de ordem familiar, social e cultural, o deixando mais introvertido e inseguro (RODRIGUES et al, 2015, CAMPOS et al, 2014. Os tabus criados em todo das IST tornam-se também um fator agravante.…”
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“…A vulnerabilidade à Aids é um assunto complexo e que abrange uma grande dimensão, de modo que definem os grupos de maior exposição, o que boa parte das vezes acaba gerando uma maior exclusão e marginalização desses grupos (CAMPOS et al, 2014;RODRIGUES et al, 2015). O fato de a doença ser estigmatizada pela sociedade e de até então não possuir cura pode trazer consequências biopsicossociais ao sujeito acometido, influenciando diretamente sua vida (GALVÃO et al, 2015;OLIVEIRA et al, 2015).…”
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“…10 It is up to Nursing to work on STI / HIV / AIDS knowledge with adolescents, who in turn live a phase of life where their sexual identity is being defined and their abstract thoughts make them believe that they are invulnerable. 11 Thus, it is a clear and information-rich dialogue on their vulnerability to HIV infection is essential. In this process, the psychosocial perspective of social representations (SR) becomes useful, for understanding the everyday construction of knowledge and practices about a particular social object.…”
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confidence: 99%