Youth and the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons learned from a human rights-based prevention programme for youths in São Paulo, Brazil.

Youths living in crowded impoverished urban areas face higher risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2. This article presents lessons learned from a preventive intervention project intersected by the COVID-19 crisis that moved from a mix-methods study design to online ethnography. The 'home-officed' research team e-witnessed high-school students' daily lives and collaborated in youths' and community-based organisations' responses in the territories where they study and live.

Information literacy: perceptions of Brazilian HIV/AIDS researchers.

Background: Information literacy has evolved with changes in lifelong learning. Can Brazilian health researchers search for and use updated scientific information?

Objectives: To describe researchers' information literacy based on their perceptions of their abilities to search for and use scientific information and on their interactions with libraries.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews and focus group conducted with six Brazilian HIV/AIDS researchers.

[The sexuality of HIV-positive adolescents: rights and challenges for healthcare].

Sexuality and reproductive healthcare represent relevant issues for comprehensive care of HIV-positive adolescents. However, public policies and health services give this issue insufficient attention. The scope of this article is to assess how HIV-positive young people and teenagers cope with their sexuality, dating and the urge to have children and start a family.

Validity of the WHO VAW study instrument for estimating gender-based violence against women.

Objective: To validate the instrument of the World Health Organization Violence Against Women (WHO VAW) study on psychological, physical and sexual violence against women perpetrated by intimate partners.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in several countries between 2000 and 2003, including Brazil. Representative random samples of women aged 15-49 years with intimate partners were selected, living in the city of São Paulo (n = 940) and in the Zona da Mata, Pernambuco (n = 1,188), southeastern and northeastern regions, respectively.

Factors associated with sexual initiation and condom use among adolescents on Santiago Island, Cape Verde, West Africa.

The current study focuses on factors associated with sexual initiation and condom use among teenagers on Santiago Island, Cape Verde, according to gender. This was a representative, probabilistic sample of 13-to-17-year-olds (n = 768) attending public secondary schools on Santiago Island in 2007. Associations were tested by test of proportion, Pearson's chi-square, or Fisher's exact test and logistic regression.

[Quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS in São Paulo, Brazil].

Objective: To assess quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Methods: Cross-sectional study conducted in an AIDS outpatient service based on consecutive sampling during the second half of the year 2002. There were selected 365 men and women aged 18 years or older who were attended by the infectious disease physician.

[Risk factors for early neonatal mortality].

Objective: To assess risk factors for early neonatal mortality.

Methods: A population-based case-control study was carried out with 146 early neonatal deaths and a sample of 313 controls obtained among survivals of the neonate period in the south region of the city of São Paulo, in the period of 8/1/2000 to 1/31/2001. Information was obtained through home interviews and hospital charts.

Risk-factors for antepartum fetal deaths in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.

Objective: To assess risk factors for antepartum fetal deaths.

Methods: A population-based case-control study was carried out in the city of São Paulo from August 2000 to January 2001. Subjects were selected from a birth cohort from a linked birth and death certificate database.

[Validation of birth certificates based on data from a case-control study].

The information recorded on birth certificates was validated with data from a perinatal mortality case-control study, obtained from home interviews of mothers and hospital records for cases (early neonatal deaths) and controls. Sensitivity, specificity, and concordance were calculated for all variables and their estimated and real prevalence. The completeness of birth certificates was lowest for mother's parity and presence of congenital anomalies (records without information range from 23% to 31% for cases and controls).

[Disclosure of HIV infection from the perspective of adolescents living with HIV/AIDS and their parents and caregivers].

The purpose of this study was to identify relevant issues in the disclosure of HIV-positive status in children and adolescents, aiming to improve the quality of their healthcare. A qualitative study included adolescents living with HIV/ AIDS and their parents and caregivers at AIDS reference services in São Paulo and Santos, Brazil. In-depth interviews and focus group were used.

Vulnerability, human rights, and comprehensive health care needs of young people living with HIV/AIDS.

We sought to identify and understand the health care needs of young people living with HIV/AIDS, particularly in terms of their psychosocial well-being. We conducted a qualitative analysis of HIV-positive young people and their caregivers, focusing on the implications of an HIV diagnosis for health care needs. Stigma was a recurrent issue that arose in the interviews conducted with the respondents, and it was evident that youths had been denied many rights related to health.

[Accidental home deliveries in southern São Paulo, Brazil].

Objective: To identify the frequency, risks of fetal and early neonatal mortality and the determinants of accidental home deliveries.

Methods: A population-based case control study of fetal and early neonatal deaths was carried out in the southern area of São Paulo, Brazil. Data were collected through home interviews and hospital record reviews.

[Sexuality of women living with HIV/AIDS in São Paulo].

The social and cultural setting which increases female vulnerability to HIV does not disappear when women living with HIV/AIDS discover that they are infected. Following diagnosis, new challenges arise in their emotional lives, an issue which has received little attention in the literature. This study interviewed 1068 women living with HIV/AIDS using a questionnaire consisting of both open and closed questions, aimed at describing aspects of their sexual and reproductive lives and how they perceive counseling at Reference Centers in two cities in the State of São Paulo, where they have access to free antiretroviral therapy.

[Violence against women: a study in a primary healthcare unit].

Objectives: There is scarce information on violence against women in the Brazilian society. This fact is rarely reported in medical records as part of the diagnosis and case management, despite evidence showing the significant impact of violence on the population's health. The study aim was to estimate the occurrence of violence against women, and to determine the nature and magnitude of the violent action and the relationship between women and her aggressors.