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Revista Cubana de Salud Pública

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PINZON FERNANDEZ, María Virginia; MUESES MARIN, Hector Fabio  and  GALINDO QUINTERO, Jaime. Sociodemographic factors, knowledge and behaviors related to syphilis and HIV in the displaced population of Colombia. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2013, vol.39, n.3, pp.474-488. ISSN 0864-3466.

Introduction: the displacement of population groups from rural to urban areas in Colombia, due to the armed conflict fundamentally, lead to increase of vulnerability in a number of aspects to health deterioration. Objective: to determine the presence of syphilis and of HIV and their relation with socio-demographic factors, knowledge, attitudes and practices in the displaced population of Popayan-Colombia, 2009. Methods: cross-sectional study conducted in 2009 during comprehensive active screening campaigns. A total of 500 voluntary displaced participants who gave their consent, answered structured questionnaires, and were performed HIV/syphilis testing. Statistical analysis was performed in SPSS version 17. Results: Mean age of 35 ± 0.51 years, 368 were women (73.6 %), 356 (71.2 %) lived on socioeconomic level 1 (the lowest), 322 (71.4 %) exhibited less than one year of displacement, 500 (100 %) were HIV-negative and 21 (4.2 %) with a past history of syphilis; most of the participants had poor knowledge about HIV and syphilis. Being a black person, having more than 20 years of sexual activity and 2 or more sexual partners in the last year, were mostly related to history of syphilis. Conclusions: The study population has risk factors that make it vulnerable to HIV and syphilis infections, but the length of time of displacement is a determining factor that may influence the data.

Keywords : syphilis; HIV; displaced persons; poverty; sexual behavior.

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