Author(s):
Rodrigues, Taymara ; Dias, Bruna ; Gomes, Dulce ; Arcêncio, Ricardo ; Andrade, Jorge ; Ferreira, Glenda ; Gonçalves, Lucia ; Botelho, Eliã
Date: 2023
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/34500
Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
Subject(s): AIDS; Temporal Analysis; Spatial Analysis; Brazil
Description
Despite considerable therapeutic advances in the care of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and an overall reduction of 47% in the AIDS mortality rate in the last decade, the AIDS-mortality rates remains high. The social determinants of health (SDH) have a direct influence on the dynamics of this phenomenon. However, changes in SDH caused by the implemented policies against HIV have been poorly investigated. Moreover, the Brazilian rainforest has had the highest and continuously increasing AIDS mortality rate in Brazil since the 1980s. In this study, AIDS mortality in a province of the Brazilian rainforest was examined by using temporal and spatial analyses.