The State of Pará and Belém occupy the tenth and
sixth position between the Federative Units
and the Brazilian capitals, respectively, in the detection rate of human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV). HIV infection has grown a
mong young adolescents, even th
ough
the
government
media campaigns for HIV preventio
n. From the year 1980 to the year 2013, the Northern
Region presented a 111% increase in the detection rate among subjects aged 15 to 24 years.
With the objective of designing more effective and timely health education campaigns against
HIV infection in yo
ung adolescents in the city of Belém, in this work I was PROPOSED in
the foreground to outline the epidemiological profile for HIV infection or
A
cquired
Immunodeficiency S
yndrome (AIDS) among adolescents between the ages of 15 and 24 years
for each of the
administrative district of Belém, and secondly to evaluate the knowledge about
HIV / AIDS among high school students of state schools in these administrative regions. The
survey of the epidemiological profile will be done at the Center for Testing and Coun
seling
(CTA) of the Municipal Health Department of Belém (SESMA) using questionnaires filled by
users, aged 15 to 24 years, whose tests were positive for HIV in the period between 2010 and
2015. The data were grouped by location of the user's residence. In
order to assess the level of
knowledge about HIV/A
ids
in high school students, semi
-
structured questionnaires with
closed questions were used where the student has options to agree to the question, do not
agree or mark "I do not know". It is hoped that th
e results provided by this study will provide
further subsidies to public
health policies to combat HIV/
A
ids
. We hope that our findings will
be sources for further studies and that they alert us to effective action in the fight against HIV
in public school
students by municipal, state and even federal agencies.
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