Homeless people: profile of tuberculosis and HIV coinfection cases

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: to analyze the Homeless People profile with tuberculosis (TB)/HIV co-infection in Porto Velho - RO, between 2015 and 2018. MATERIALS AND METHODS: a descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach carried out from the survey the sociodemographic, clinical variables and the treatment of cases in the National Information System on Notifiable Diseases, and later analysis by frequency distribution, after meeting the ethical precepts. RESULTS: seven cases of TB/HIV were reported among the Homeless People. Most were female, between 31 and 38 years old, brown, with low education, had associated diseases and conditions, were not a special population, notified in 2016, in the tertiary reference, it was a new case or reentry after abandonment, pulmonary clinical form, suspected chest X-ray, negative sputum smear microscopy, rapid molecular test for TB and culture not performed, sensitivity test and blank monthly control, up to three identified contacts and none examined, did not perform Directly Observed Treatment, treatment in the tertiary referral, from 61 to 120 days and more than 181 days, and a high percentage of abandonment. CONCLUSION: it is essential to review the strategies for access to services and actions offered to meet the health demands of the Homeless People, focused on both diseases.