Análise da adesão a terapia antirretroviral em pessoas vivendo com HIV em uma unidade de atendimento especializado

Abstract

Over 30 years, aids is still considered a public health problem. Due to the increase in people with hiv death rate, was available in the brazilian health system, such as treatment, antiretroviral therapy (haart). People who have the disease face some challenges that directly affect adherence to treatment may compromise the quality of life for them. Objective: to analyze adherence to antiretroviral therapy for people living with hiv in a unit specialized care in caruaru-pe. Methods: a descriptive exploratory study with quantitative approach carried out bridges amelia health center sample was for convenience. Data collection was through the application of a validated questionnaire, the data were tabulated in microsoft excel for windows program. Version 2007. Results: the majority of the population resides in the city of caruaru, is male (56.49%) (56.65%) had incomplete primary education (68.83%) claim that no time left to take medication last week, but since he started treatment (57.14%) of respondents have already left, (86.36%) did not remember the medications they were taking, (32.37%) reported not having any information about the art (53.25%) say they feel very able to continue with the treatment, most had a good relationship with the multidisciplinary health care team.conclusions: adherence in service studied specialized unit, showed up with enough significant data, revealing the situations that need to be addressed and clarified, and individualized.