Expressão geografica da Aids no municipio de Campinas - SP : duas decadas de epidemia Aids / Geographic expression of aids in Campinas municipal area/SP: two decades of the Aids epidemic

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

Understanding the different socio-economic, cultural, biological, and political dimensions of the HIV and Aids epidemic is still a large challenge for the Brazilian Health System after more than twenty years of the disease in the country and the world. The current dynamic of the Aids epidemic touches people in different ways in their ?habitats?, and is characterized by trends such as heterosexualization, feminization, interiorization, pauperization, and more recently has attacked a much older age band, concentrating in marginalized and vulnerable populations. Addresses were georeferenced for over >13-year-old individuals registered with Aids in Campinas municipal area between 1980 and 2005. A kernel density estimator for points was used to investigate case agglomeration. A total of 4175 Aids cases were georeferenced, 90% of the total notified by the Epidemiological Monitoring System, according to gender and age group in different periods of the epidemic. The maps indicated increasing case dispersion in urbanized peripheral areas of the city as the years elapsed. Spatial distribution of aids cases in women is different to men, showing distinct time and space profiles. Although this was an exploratory study which did not consider occurrences for the at risk population, the distribution of >50-year-old cases is concentrated in centralized areas of the city. Geoprocessing techniques and spatial analysis can help in epidemic prevention and control as part of the Campinas Municipal STD/Aids and Epidemiological Monitoring Program

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notificação de doenças disease notification residence characteristics distribuição espacial da população aids (doença) acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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