HIV/AIDS em jovens de um município da Região Amazônica-Brasil entre os anos de 2012 e 2022

Abstract

Introduction: The Acquired Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the body overrides the human body's natural defense mechanisms, easily allowing contamination by other diseases. Young people are the group most vulnerable to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Despite the reduction in the HIV detection rate in all regions of the country, the North region showed an increase of 20.1% from 2012 to 2022. Objective: To analyze the occurrence of HIV cases in young people in the municipality of Santarém, Pará, between 2012 and 2022. Methods: Epidemiological and descriptive study, with data collected in the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN), of the Unified Health System Information Department (DATASUS), using the variables: age, sex, and race/color. Results: The profile of those affected by HIV in Santarém - Pará, is young people aged 20 to 24, male and brown. The time period with the highest occurrence of cases was the years 2017 and 2018, both with 45 cases (17.64%). From 2019 onwards, there was a notable drop, with 22 cases (8.63%), and in 2022, the number reached its lowest value in a decade, with only 3 cases (1.18%). Conclusion: The results highlight the need to strengthen access to diagnosis and notification, considering the geographical particularities of the Brazilian regions, seeking to combat stigma and reduce the prevalence of HIV among young people, encouraging protagonism over their bodies, their rights and their way of living healthy sexuality.