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BOLANOS GUTIERREZ, María Regla  y  ROJO PEREZ, Nereida. Late prevention and diagnosis of the AIDS present in Havana City, 1986-2007. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.2. ISSN 0864-2125.

OBJECTIVE: to characterize the occurrence of late diagnoses in HIV-persons, and the possible failures in primary care. METHODS: a cross-sectional and descriptive study was made of the 422 cases occurred in Havana City from 1986 to 2007. Information is from the national data-base of HIV/AIDS cases of Public Health Ministry. RESULTS: cases of clinical beginning were increased from 1997, with a peak in 2007, and the municipalities with greater percentage of diseased include La Lisa, Plaza, and Habana Vieja. There was a predominance of male sex (91 %) with sexual intercourse from man to man (85,3 %); the more affected age group was that aged 40-44 (20,4 %), and the 53,3 % was that more diagnosed through admission inquiry. More frequent entities are: weakness by HIV (34,4 %), systemic adenopathies with low DC₄ (21,7 %), and pneumonia by Pneumucystis jiroveci (16,0 %). In past 10 years there was an increase of deceases, and the 38,4 % die during the same year of its diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: there are difficulties in prevention tasks of HIV/AIDA in Health Primary Care.

Palabras clave : HIV/AIDS; clinical beginning; opportunistic infections; late diagnosis; prevention.

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