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DIFFERENTIAL TRENDS IN MORTALITY FROM AIDS IN MEN AND WOMEN IN BRAZIL (1984-1995)
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Department of Epidemiology, National School of Public Health (ENSP), Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ)
Department of Health Information, FIOCRUZ
Department of Social Sciences
Gender and Health Nucleus, ENSP, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gender and Health Nucleus, ENSP, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada.
Department of Health Information, FIOCRUZ
Department of Social Sciences
Gender and Health Nucleus, ENSP, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gender and Health Nucleus, ENSP, FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Epidemiology Research Group, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Canada.
Resumo
Objective: To analyse trends in AIDS mortality in men and women in Brazil, for the
period 1984±1995.
Design and methods: National statistics on yearly numbers of reported deaths by
cause, in conjunction with census population counts and inter-censory estimates,
were used to calculate age- and sex-specic AIDS mortality rates for Brazil as a whole
and for São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the two largest cities in Brazil, and those most
affected by the AIDS epidemic to date.
Results: Numbers of reported deaths from AIDS have increased yearly in Brazil since
1984, to approximately 15 000 in 1995. The data suggest that after a very dramatic
rise in mortality rates, the epidemic may have started to slow even before the introduction of freely available highly-active anti-retroviral therapy, although unequally in terms of both geographical and sex distributions. Women also tended to die at relatively younger ages than men in all areas studied, and by 1995 the impact of AIDS
on overall mortality was practically the same for men and women aged 25-34 years
(21% in São Paulo).
Conclusions: Trends in mortality from AIDS in Brazil reflect both the geographical
expansion of the epidemic outwards from its original epicentres, and the fact that
women are becoming increasingly affected by the AIDS epidemic.
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