The great progress in controlling HIV infection through combined antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has transformed AIDS from a fatal into a chronic disease. Women living with HIV/AIDS will experience the climacteric and its events more often, what justifies the necessity to know the female population in order to design an action plan for this phase. This transversal, descriptive study was based on an exploratory documentary analysis of HIV/AIDS registries among women in the 40-64 age group, from 2014 to 2017, in the state of Pará. The Brazilian Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (SINAN), Mortality Surveillance System (SIM), Logistic and Supply Management System of Drugs (SICLOM), Medical Laboratory Examination Management System (SISCEL), and Hospital Surveillance System of the National Health System (SIHSUS) provided data studied herein. This research aimed at describing the epidemiological profile of women living with HIV/AIDS in the state of Pará to identify the rate of hospital stays for AIDS and its related diseases, the AIDS mortality rates in the state, the number of women in virological failure, and their whereabouts. A total sum of 1.237 cases were reported in the period, with the highest amount in 2017 (37.1%), mainly in the 40-44 age group (30.3%), brown (82.1%), low schooling (41.2%), and urban dwellers (85.2%). The highest hospital mortality rate was in the metropolitan region I (73.9%). The viral load was detectable in 383 women, being the 40-44 age group the one with the highest detectability rate. UREDIPE and CASA DIA are the services where most women were observed in virological failure. It is concluded that brown female urban dwellers, with low schooling, in the 40-44 age group were the ones with the highest number of notification at SINAN. The metropolitan region I had the highest mortality rate.
|
