Prevalence of HIV among older adults at a reference center in Southern Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2017v20i4p249-262Mots-clés :
Aged, HIV, Epidemiology.Résumé
This study aimed to determine the prevalence rate of HIV in older adults. A cross-sectional study of 1,184 HIV-infected patients. In this group, 1,091 (92.15%) patients were aged < 60 years and 93 (7.85%) ≥ 60 years. The mean prevalence rate of HIV detected in the ≥ 60 years group was 1.66± 0.54 per 100,000 population (1.05± 0.43 in men and 0.61 ± 0.29 in women). The epidemiological profile of elderly patients with HIV was characterized by: males, low levels of schooling, white and heterosexual people.
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2017-12-30
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Silva, C. M. da, Matias, S., Peder, L. D. de, Horvath, J. D., Teixeira, J. J. V., & Bertolini, D. A. (2017). Prevalence of HIV among older adults at a reference center in Southern Brazil. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 20(4), 249–262. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2017v20i4p249-262
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