Department of Surveillance, Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, of the Secretariat for Health Surveillance of the Brazilian Ministry of Health; Universidade Federal de S?o Jo?o del-Rei. Divinopolis, MG, Brazil.; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Departamento de Medicina Preventiva e Social. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.; Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Agg...
Brazilian Ministry of Health, through the Secretariat for Health Surveillance and the Department of Prevention, Surveillance and Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis; Universidade Federal do Cear?. Faculdade de Medicina. Departamento de Sa?de Comunit?ria. Fortaleza, CE, Brasil.; Tulane University. Department of Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences. New Orleans, LA,...
This study explores the relationships among demographic, socioeconomic and health status of children and adolescents whose parents were HIV positive or died due to the condition in the State of Ceará and Salvador, Bahia; Explore the relationships among the cities of Fortaleza and Salvador through the multiple correspondence analysis. We conducted a cross-sectional, multicenter, exploratory study, in reference s...
In the last 20 years the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection epidemic is presenting all over the world in a growing way the women’s population. In that context, the HIV transmission from mother to infant appears as one of the challenges for the public health. Several studies are confirming the effectiveness of zidovudine in reduction of HIV transmission from mother to infant. In Brazil, since 1996, the...