Impacto do Uso de Drogas Ilícitas na Contagem de Linfócitos TCD4+ de Portadores do HIV em Goiânia (Brasil)

Abstract

AIDS is considered an important Public Health problem, affecting millions of people by all the world, although the important advances that have been occurring in the epidemiology knowledge, the infection pathology and still of the therapy antiretroviral advent, the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow preoccupying. Currently, the main epidemiologic aspects related to HIV/AIDS have assumed increasing impact on people kept out of society with low partner-economic level, abuse drugs dependent (allowed and hard drugs), femaletion, low schoolarity and the illness advance in individuals above fifty years of age. This study objectified to investigate the correlation among the hard drugs use (marijuana, crack, cocaine, ecstasy, heroine, metadona, LSD, GHB, special key and speed ball) in the CD4+ T-lymphocyte counting in HIV seropositive. A life stile questionnaire was applied in 176 HIV seropositive, divided in case and control was applied, being the case group 68 HIV carriers and illicit drugs users and the control 108 not illicit drugs using HIV carriers. An active search in handbooks in the HAA/HDT from interviewed seropositives was done to verify the last results of CD4+ T-lymphocyte counting that had been done in the LACEN-GO. Participants general profile was formed by individuals of both sexs (with majority of male sex) aware that they are HIV carrying between 5 and 10 years, living in Goiânia-GO, with average age between 30 and 40 years and low schoolarity level. In the case group, marijuana showed itself the most abuse drug used. However, crack users had been the ones that had disclosed minor average of dosed CD4+ T-lymphocyte counting. The study results had shown surprising by itself, once that the abuse drugs use did not generate, directly, influence in the CD4+ T-lymphocyte dosage. However, other studies had demonstrated that the illicit drugs use is, many times, associated to the information lack and a risk social life (with violence and promiscuity) which can induce, indirectly, to the contamination by HIV and the probable AIDS dissemination.