Clinical-epidemiological characteristics of patients with acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Santa Elena, Ecuador

Abstract

Background: The epidemiological surveillance of HIV infection has undergone notable improvements in recent years that favor knowledge of the development of the infection. HIV is currently a global public health problem due to the constant and continuous spread of the disease. Objective: to determine the epidemiological behavior of HIV / AIDS in the Liborio Panchana Sotomayor General Hospital of Santa Elena, Ecuador, in a comparative way between the years 2018 and 2019, for the improvement of prevention and care policies. Method: a descriptive, cross-sectional, and observational study will be carried out, where all the patients diagnosed during the study period will be included, a database will be prepared in the EXCEL program that will collect demographic, clinical and laboratory variables which will be processed and expressed in percent. Results: the number of cases was higher in 2019 with 77 diagnosed, the incidence rate in the population studied between 2018 and 2019 was 22.3 per 100,000 inhabitants. Conclusions: this is a disease that affects the male population between 16 and 37 years old, heterosexual, with a primary school level, a mestizo color of the skin, fundamentally Ecuadorians, who perform the CD4 determination belatedly and who present few defining diseases of immunodeficiency syndrome human.