Epidemic-comparative manifestations in heterosexual people that live with the HIV/AIDS in Santiago de Cuba
Abstract
Introduction: The current considerations with relationship to the heterosexuality and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS are complex at world level and with diverse shades in each región, that depends off social and cultural context.
Objective: To characterize the heterosexual population's epidemic manifestations with HIV/AIDS according to selected describers.
Methods: An observational, descriptive and traverse study, was carried out with longitudinal strategy, to characterize the people with new infection for HIV/AIDS, of both sexes, with heterosexual orientation, with a comparative focus in the mens that have sex with other mens, according to the different selected variables, during the decade of 2013 to 2022. For the prosecution of the results the average and the standard deviation were used. The information was presented by means of statistical, graphics and mathematical methods.
Results: The heterosexuality was raised with a pattern of variability different to the waited, observing a significant percentage increment among the extreme years of the series, to the women's expense in young ages and intermediate of the life, single, without labor bond, with preeminence to practice transactional sex. The clinical debut of the AIDS and the immunologic precariousness constituted a health problem. The percentage variation of the deceaseds and the comparative tendency was superior in the HSH, with a pattern of variability and amount of superior death in the heterosexuals.
Conclusions: The heterosexuality is raise as a pattern of different variability in the population with more vulnerability.
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