Vaccination Coverage of People Living with HIV: Before and after Interventional Action.

This is a quasi-experimental study that assessed PLHIV vaccination coverage before and after health professionals participated in a training course on PLHIV immunization. The vaccination coverage of 645 PLHIV was assessed in the pre-intervention phase. The vaccine with the best coverage was diphtheria and tetanus (82.

Online course on vaccinating people with HIV/AIDS - effectiveness in the knowledge of nursing professionals.

Objective: analyzing the effectiveness of an educational intervention on the knowledge of nursing professionals regarding the immunization of people with the human immunodeficiency virus.

Method: a quasi-experimental study evaluated professionals' knowledge through a knowledge test applied before and after the development of an online training course. The data was analyzed using frequency, median, mean, standard deviation, and association tests.

Telehealth effectiveness for pre-exposure prophylaxis delivery in Brazilian public services: the Combine! Study.

Introduction: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery based on user needs can enhance PrEP access and impact. We examined whether telehealth for daily oral PrEP delivery could change the indicators of care related to prophylactic use in five Brazilian public HIV clinics (testing centres, outpatient clinics and infectious disease hospitals).

Methods: Between July 2019 and December 2020, clients on PrEP for at least 6 months could transition to telehealth or stay with in-person follow-up.

Inconsistent condom use between serodifferent sexual partnerships to the human immunodeficiency virus.

Objective: to analyze predictors of inconsistent condom use among HIV-positive people with sexual immunodeficiency virus serodifferent sexual partnership.

Method: cross-sectional, analytical study with a consecutive non-probabilistic sample consisting of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus with serodifferent sexual partnership and who were in outpatient clinical follow-up. Data were collected through individual interviews guided by a semi-structured questionnaire and subsequently analyzed with bivariate analysis and logistic regression.

[Aids and tuberculosis: coinfection from the perspective of the quality of life of patients].

Tuberculosis (TB) and HIV coinfection adversely affects the lives of individuals in both the biological and psychosocial aspects. Aiming to describe the quality of life of individuals with HIV/TB coinfection, this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Ribeirão Preto-SP. Participants were HIV-seropositive individuals with and without TB, using the WHOQOL HIV BREF.

[Quality of life in women with HIV/AIDS in a municipality in the state of São Paulo].

High potency antiretroviral therapy brings benefits to people with HIV/AIDS, related to survival, chronicity and quality of life. The objective of this quantitative and cross-sectional study was to assess the quality of life of women with HIV/AIDS, using the WHOQOL--HIV bref and its association with sociodemographic variables. The study was performed in outpatient clinics specialized in care to HIV/AIDS patients.

[Compliance with the treatment by patients with the co-infection HIV/tuberculosis: integrative literature review].

This is an integrative review whose objective was to evaluate the evidences available in the literature about the factors associated to the compliance with the treatment by patients with the co-infection HIV/TB. Articles published in the period from 2002 to 2008, in the databases LILACS and MEDLINE were analyzed. The material was categorized according to the year of publication, periodical, study location and factors related to the compliance.

[HIV-positive mothers: perceptions about the severity of the infection].

The complexity of AIDS involves not just the cognitive side of knowledge, but also the psychosocial factors that influence the behavior of individuals. The objective of this study was to identify the perceptions of HIV-positive mothers concerning the severity of the infection. This is a qualitative study for which were interviewed 14 seropositive mothers who bore a child in the year of 2004.

HIV positive mothers' beliefs about mother-to-child transmission.

Beliefs can influence health behavior. This qualitative study aimed to understand the beliefs that influence HIV positive mothers' behaviors towards prevention methods against mother-to-child transmission. Fourteen women were interviewed.