Document 2391
 DOCN  M94A2391
 TI    HIV positive women--an experience in an anonymous testing center (ATC)
       in Rio de Janeiro.
 DT    9412
 AU    Freitas L; Silva S; Almeida C; Rodrigues M; Masson F; Silva C;
       Vasconcelos A; HESFA/UFRJ, Brasil.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):315 (abstract no. PC0190). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370184
 AB    OBJECTIVE: Establish the profile of the women who come to ATC to test
       for HIV antibodies and whose results proved positive. METHODS: 260
       promptuaries of women who came for voluntary and anonymous tests to the
       ATC between April 15th 1992 and December 30th 1993 and proved positive
       were checked. Variables such as age, educational level, marital status,
       motivation for coming to the ATC ad symptoms or signs of
       immunodeficiency were chosen. RESULTS: Women HIV positive represent
       11.38% of all these who came to the ATC. 47.69% are between 25 and 35
       years old. 26.15% are of elementary school level or totally illiterate.
       23.46% went to junior high school and 16.53% got up to senior high
       school. 29.23% of the women are married, 51.92% single and 13.84% are
       widows of men who died of AIDS. The main motivation for finding out the
       serological status is having had a man as sexual partner who proved HIV
       positive (57.30%) and 67.69% believed that sexual intercourse was the
       most probable means of contamination. Concerning the clinical status
       60.38% didn't show any symptoms of immunodeficiency related to the HIV
       when tested. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The heterosexual transmission of
       HIV between women with AIDS in counts 55.43% of all the female cases
       between 1991-1993. The present data suggest that the AIDS-prevention
       aiming the female population should put changes in their sexual behavior
       in the first place considering the fact that a significant number of
       these women had only one sexual partner and who supposedly should be
       excluded from contamination risk and who become a group whose difficulty
       in understanding the use of condoms is a challenge for ATC'S team.
 DE    Adult  Age Factors  AIDS Serodiagnosis/*UTILIZATION  Brazil  Educational
       Status  Female  Human  *HIV Seropositivity  Marital Status  Motivation
       MEETING ABSTRACT

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