Abstracts
Objective
Analyzing the geographical distribution of the tuberculosis (TB), its incidence and prevalence and TB-HIV coinfection in the districts of Porto Alegre from 2007 to 2011.
Method
An ecological, descriptive study of time series that used descriptive and geoprocessing techniques.
Results
In total, were recorded 3,369 incident cases and 3,998 prevalent cases of pulmonary TB. In both contexts, there was predominance of cases in males and in Caucasians. Seventeen districts showed prevalence rates above 79.2 cases/100,000 inhabitants, considering that 15 of them had incidence rates above 73.7 cases/100,000 inhabitants. The TB-HIV coinfection rates reached 67% in some districts, which is above the city average value (30%).
Conclusion
The distribution analysis showed that the reformulation and restructuring of policies and health services in Porto Alegre are essential.
Tuberculosis; HIV; Residence characteristics; Public health nursing
Objetivo
Analizar la distribución geográfica de la enfermedad, su incidencia, prevalencia y la coinfección TB - VIH en los barrios de este municipio en los años de 2007 a 2011.
Método
Estudio ecológico de serie histórica, descriptivo, que utilizó técnicas descriptivas y de geoprocesamiento.
Resultados
Fueron registrados 3.369 casos nuevos y 3.998 casos prevalentes de tuberculosis pulmonar bacilífera. En ambos contextos hubo predominancia de casos en el sexo masculino y la etnia blanca. Diecisiete barrios presentaron índices de prevalencia superiores a 79,2 casos/100.000 habitantes, siendo que 15 de esos tuvieron incidencia arriba de 73,7 casos/100.000 habitantes. El índice de coinfección TB-VIH alcanzó el 67% en algunos barrios, valor superior al promedio de la ciudad (30%).
Conclusión
El análisis de distribución señaló que son fundamentales las reformulaciones y reestructuraciones de políticas y servicios de salud en Porto Alegre.
Tuberculosis; VIH; Distribución espacial de la población; Enfermería en salud pública
Objetivo
Analisar a distribuição geográfica da doença, sua incidência, prevalência e a coinfecção TB - HIV nos bairros deste município nos anos de 2007 a 2011.
Método
Estudo ecológico de série histórica, descritivo, que utilizou técnicas descritivas e de geoprocessamento.
Resultados
Foram registrados 3.369 casos novos e 3.998 casos prevalentes de tuberculose pulmonar bacilífera. Em ambos os contextos houve predominância de casos no sexo masculino e na etnia branca. Dezessete bairros apresentaram taxas de prevalência acima de 79,2 casos/100.000 habitantes, sendo que 15 deles tiveram incidência acima de 73,7 casos/100.000 habitantes. A taxa de coinfecção TB-HIV chegou a 67% em alguns bairros, valor superior à média da cidade (30%).
Conclusão
A análise de distribuição apontou que são fundamentais reformulações e reestruturações de políticas e serviços de saúde em Porto Alegre.
Tuberculose; HIV; Distribuição espacial da população; Enfermagem em saúde pública
Introduction
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease known as a global public health problem and of wide geographic distribution. It is strongly associated with poverty and social inequalities and has affected the most different population groups(101 Barbosa IR, Costa ICC. A emergência da co-infecção tuberculose – HIV no Brasil. Hygeia. 2012;8(15):232-44).
In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the alarming situation of TB,
inviting governments, the scientific community and civil society to focus urgent
efforts to control it(202 Barreira D, Grangeiro A. Avaliação das estratégias de controle da
tuberculose no Brasil. Rev Saúde Pública. 2007;41 Supl. 1:4-8-303 Otu AA. Is the directly observed therapy short course (DOTS) an
effective strategy for tuberculosis control in a developing country? Asian Pac J
Trop Dis. 2013;3(3):227-31). In recent decades, there has been
significant progress on actions and programs to combat tuberculosis, a curable
infection that still has high rates of incidence and deaths in several countries -
it is estimated that in 2012, 8.6 million people developed the disease and 1.3
million died from it(404 World Health Organization. Global Tuberculosis Report, 2013
[Internet]. Geneva: WHO; 2013 [cited 2014 June 13]. Available from:
http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global_report/en/
http://www.who.int/tb/publications/globa...
).
Brazil is among the 22 countries estimated to concentrate 80% of TB cases in the
world(505 Campani STA, Moreira JS, Tietbohel CN. Fatores preditores para o
abandono do tratamento da tuberculose pulmonar preconizado pelo Ministério da
Saúde do Brasil na cidade de Porto Alegre (RS). J Bras Pneumol.
2011;37(6):776-82), recording 71,930
new cases of the disease in the year 2010, in a proportion of 37.7 cases / 100,000
inhabitants(606 Oliveira GP, Torrens AW, Bartholomay P, Barreira D. Tuberculosis in
Brazil: last ten years analysis - 2001-2010. Braz J Infect Dis.
2013;17(2):218-33). In the
country, the homeless, deprived of freedom, indigenous and carriers of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) are
considered the most vulnerable populations to the disease(707 Boletim Epidemiológico. Especial tuberculose. Brasília: Ministério
da Saúde, Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde [Internet]. 2012 [citado 2013 set.
12];43. Disponível em:
http://www.saude.rs.gov.br/upload/1337634001_Tuberculose-Boletim%20Epidemio.pdf
http://www.saude.rs.gov.br/upload/133763...
).
Porto Alegre, located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), is one of the Brazilian
capitals with higher incidence rates of tuberculosis. In this municipality, the
recent annual incidence rates of the disease have been more than 100 cases /
100,000(808 Brasil. Ministério da Saúde; Grupo Hospitalar Conceição. Tuberculose
na Atenção Primária à Saúde [Internet]. Porto Alegre: Hospital Nossa Senhora da
Conceição; 2013 [citado 2013 set. 12]. Disponível em:
http://www2.ghc.com.br/GepNet/publicacoes/tuberculosenaatencao.pdf
http://www2.ghc.com.br/GepNet/publicacoe...
) inhabitants,
considered a high level of epidemiological risk(909 Fundação Oswaldo Cruz; Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio
Arouca. Controle da tuberculose: uma proposta de integração ensino - serviço.
22ª ed. Rio de Janeiro: EAD/ENSP; 2008). Furthermore, both the state of RS as its capital Porto
Alegre have been prominent in the Brazilian scenario regarding the high rates of
TB-HIV coinfection, around 20% and 30%, respectively. These values far exceed the
national rate (not exceeding 10%), constituting a worrying scenario that requires
joint actions of prevention and care. Factors such as the growth of pockets of
poverty, the breakdown of health services and the spread of AIDS may help to explain
such numbers(808 Brasil. Ministério da Saúde; Grupo Hospitalar Conceição. Tuberculose
na Atenção Primária à Saúde [Internet]. Porto Alegre: Hospital Nossa Senhora da
Conceição; 2013 [citado 2013 set. 12]. Disponível em:
http://www2.ghc.com.br/GepNet/publicacoes/tuberculosenaatencao.pdf
http://www2.ghc.com.br/GepNet/publicacoe...
).
Thus, in view of the severity of TB in Porto Alegre, the objective of this analysis was to determine the geographic distribution of the disease by city districts, its incidence rates and the average prevalence observed in the period 2007-2011, as well as knowing the TB-HIV coinfection. From the behavior of the disease in the city in recent years, we started with the assumption that there are districts with higher rates of incidence and prevalence of TB because of their social indicators.
Due to the lack of geoprocessing studies of this nature regarding the city in question, this study may be more a theoretical subsidy for future local reformulations and improvements in the local policies.
Method
This is an ecological, descriptive study of time series, which used geoprocessing (GIS) techniques to map the distribution of TB and TB-HIV cases in Porto Alegre. The study population consisted of patients with bacilliferous pulmonary TB notified in Porto Alegre in the period 2007-2011.
Data were extracted from the Tuberculosis Notification/Investigation Forms of the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN – Sistema Nacional de Agravos de Notificação). Data collection was carried out in November 2012 with the municipal agency of General Coordination of Health Surveillance (CGVS – Coordenadoria Geral de Vigilância em Saúde) in Porto Alegre, in the Communicable Disease Surveillance team.
The spreadsheet and the database were organized through Microsoft Excel (2010 version) and the SPSS (version 19), also used for statistical analysis. For the GIS, it was used the TerraView software (version 4.2 and 4.2.1).
The new cases of pulmonary TB in Porto Alegre residents were selected for the incidence database. For the prevalence database were selected all types of entries, among which new cases, cases of readmissions after treatment abandonment and relapses. In both incidence and prevalence databases, were chosen the cases of bacilliferous pulmonary TB and/or pulmonary TB plus extrapulmonary TB with positive bacilloscopy (smear). The disease cases of those institutionalized in prison or social system were excluded because this population has an increased risk for TB compared to the general population. Those with diagnosis change in the case closure (for not being TB cases) were also excluded. For the calculation of prevalence were removed the death cases registered in the period of the study (2007-2011).
The incidence and prevalence of TB, TB-HIV co-infection, age, sex, race, education were analyzed, as well as the completion of the Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) of bacilliferous pulmonary tuberculosis.
It was considered the division of Porto Alegre in 82 districts, being 77 officials encoded by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and five unofficial districs not yet recognized by that court but cataloged by the CGVS (districts of Aberta dos Morros, Chapéu do Sol, Jardim Floresta, Passo das Pedras and Protásio Alves). Because the data were more complete, it was used the digital grid provided by the CGVS (Figure 1) to do the analysis by districts and the digital map from the Data Processing Company of Porto Alegre – PROCEMPA, in a file named mapadosbairrosvigentes.shp, created and made available on August 3, 2010.
The cases relating to homeless were cataloged in Centro district, because they are usually assisted at health units of this region.
Results
Regarding the incidence of reported cases of bacilliferous pulmonary TB in Porto Alegre in the period 2007-2011, there was a total of 3,369 cases of the disease and an increase of 649 (2007) to 685 cases (2011). Of the total cases, 66% were male and 65.5% were Caucasian.
As to age, 83% were patients from 20-59 years old, 9.2% were 60 years or older and 7.8% up to 19 years old. The percentage of children (up to 12 years old) infected with bacilliferous pulmonary TB increased from 0.31% (2007) to 0.44% (2011). Similar behavior was observed in relation to children and adolescents (up to 19 years old), where values increased from 6.94% (2007) to 11.82% (2011). In the observed period, there was a slight reduction in the percentage of elderly with TB from 10.17% (2007) to 8.76% (2011).
Most TB patients had not completed the 5th to 8th grades of the elementary school (35.2%). Illiterates accounted for 2.8% of this population and 2% completed higher education. Among the total, 1.4% of cases had no record of this variable and 3.1% fell in the category of ignored.
With respect to the HIV coinfection, 54.9% had a negative diagnosis and 23.6% were positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. A portion of 21.1% of patients did not get tested for HIV.
There was no DOT for the vast majority of TB patients (89.3%). In relation to the situation of cases closure, only 64.5% progressed to healing, 22.1% abandoned the treatment, 5.8% resulted in deaths from other causes and 3.5% in TB deaths. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis has developed in 0.6% of cases.
By analyzing the prevalence data, it was observed an increase in cases during the study period (718 in 2007 to 871 in 2011) and a predominance of TB in males (65.7%), in Caucasian individuals (62.8 %) and in those with incomplete 5th to 8th grades of elementary school (35.9%), considering a universe of 3,998 recorded cases in the period. As for education, it is noteworthy that 1.5% of cases had no records and 2.7% were categorized as ignored.
Most patients (85.7%) were aged 20-59 years old followed by the age of 19 (7.2%) and by those aged 60 years and over (7.1%).
The results of HIV testing were negative in 54% of cases, positive in 25.6% of them and the exam was not done in 20% of cases.
In 85.3% of cases, the DOT was not performed. Among the total, only 64.2% of patients with bacilliferous pulmonary TB were cured and 29.5% abandoned the treatment.
The following maps (Figures 2 and 3) represent the distribution of mean prevalence and incidence for the period of 2007 to 2011 by 100,000 inhabitants and by Porto Alegre districts.
Spatial distribution of the mean prevalence of bacilliferous pulmonary tuberculosis in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in the period 2007-2011
Spatial Distribution of the mean incidence of bacilliferous pulmonary tuberculosis in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in the period 2007-2011
It is observed that 17 districts had prevalence rates above 79.2 TB cases per 100,000 inhabitants, namely: Vila João Pessoa (79.22), Santa Teresa (81.58), Serraria (84.96), Farrapos (87.43), Agronomia (93.27), Cristal (93.63), Passo das Pedras (97.47), Lami (99.10), Mário Quintana (100.12), Partenon (103.57), Restinga (106.27), Vila Jardim (116.87), Centro (122.10), Bom Jesus (131.74), Navegantes (217.49), Marcílio Dias (286.23) and Anchieta (1,224.49).
With respect to the mean incidence rates, the districts with higher rates were the following: Vila São José (66.1), Praia de Belas (70.14), Farrapos (73.74), Restinga (74.08), Lami (77.55), Serraria (78.16), Partenon (79.53), Agronomia (81.82), Mário Quintana (84.27), Passo das Pedras (85.12), Cristal (85.31), Centro (95.01), Vila Jardim (103.51), Bom Jesus (109.29), Navegantes (161.96), Marcilio Dias (214.67) and Anchieta (1,088.44).
In the considered period, the percentage of homeless suffering from TB included in the Centro district was almost half of the total number of cases reported in the area (incidence 53.76% and prevalence 58.52%).
Regarding the distribution of TB-HIV coinfection rates of the prevalent cases from 2007 to 2011 (Figure 4), it is observed that the highest rates are found in the districts of Tristeza (41.67%), Praia de Belas (50.00 %), Glória (55.56%), Bela Vista (66.67%) and Farroupilha (66.67%).
Spatial distribution of the TB-HIV coinfection mean of all prevalent cases of bacilliferous pulmonary tuberculosis in this study, Porto Alegre, RS, period 2007-2011.
Regarding the TB-HIV coinfection for the incident cases in the considered period (Figure 5), the district of Jardim Botânico (44.44%) and, again, the districts of Tristeza (41.67%), Praia de Belas (50.00%), Farroupilha (50.00%) and Bela Vista (66.67%), were those with higher rates of coinfection.
Spatial distribution of the TB-HIV coinfection mean of all incident cases of bacilliferous pulmonary tuberculosis in this study, Porto Alegre, RS, period 2007-2011.
Discussion
According to the 2010 Brazilian census, the city of Porto Alegre has 1,409,351
inhabitants, mostly white (79.23%)(1010 Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). Censo 2010.
Rio Grande do Sul [Internet]. Rio de Janeiro; 2011 [citado 2013 out. 25].
Disponível em:
http://www.ibge.gov.br/estadosat/perfil.php?sigla=rs#
http://www.ibge.gov.br/estadosat/perfil....
-1111 Porto Alegre. Observatório da Cidade [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2013
[citado 2013 out. 28]. Disponível em:
http://www.observapoa.com.br/
http://www.observapoa.com.br/...
), which helps to
explain the higher rates of affected individuals in this ethnic group. The
prevalence of infection in males, in turn, follows the trend of spreading the
disease, which tends to infect twice as many men than women(1212 Assunção CG, Seabra JDR, Figueiredo RM de. Percepção do paciente com
tuberculose sobre a internação em hospital especializado. Cienc Enferm.
2009;15(2): 69-77). The prevalence of TB, both in
men and in Caucasians, was also observed in other southern states of Brazil, which
is perhaps justified by the type of colonization of the region (European)(1313 Furlan MCR, Oliveira SP, Marcon SS. Fatores associados ao abandono
do tratamento de tuberculose no estado do Paraná. Acta Paul Enferm.
2012;25(n.esp 1):108-14). However, the incidence and
prevalence by race/color were not calculated in this study, it was showed just the
race/color proportion of cases.
The scientific literature also highlights the prevalence of tuberculosis in the
Economically Active Population (EAP) (14-54 years)(1212 Assunção CG, Seabra JDR, Figueiredo RM de. Percepção do paciente com
tuberculose sobre a internação em hospital especializado. Cienc Enferm.
2009;15(2): 69-77), which is a finding also confirmed in the present
study. However, the progressive increase in the percentage of children under 12
infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (0.31% in 2007 to 0.44% in
2011) and the almost doubling of TB cases in children and adolescents (up to 19
years) draw attention. The persistent increase in incidence rates in the city in the
last decade (from 94.66 / 100,000 inhabitants in 2001 to 110.26 / 100,000 in 2011;
all forms of TB)(1414 Acosta L, Peruhype RC. Os mapas da tuberculose pulmonar bacilífera
de Porto Alegre. Bol Epidemiol [Internet]. 2013 [citado 2013 out. 28];15(50).
Disponível em:
http://lproweb.procempa.com.br/pmpa/prefpoa/cgvs/usu_doc/boletim_50_fevereiro_2013_2.pdf
http://lproweb.procempa.com.br/pmpa/pref...
) and the
aggravation of the spread of the disease in the districts may be among the reasons
why other age groups are affected.
Another point to be considered is the association between level of education and
tuberculosis. It is known that low educational level is classified as one of the
risk factors for acquiring the disease and is a social determinant of health.
Nevertheless, according to the 2010 census, Porto Alegre has a high Human
Development Index (HDI) (0.805), an illiteracy rate of only 2.27%(1111 Porto Alegre. Observatório da Cidade [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2013
[citado 2013 out. 28]. Disponível em:
http://www.observapoa.com.br/
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), and paradoxically, appears as
one of the first capitals in numbers of TB cases in Brazil. Furthermore, the
percentage of new cases of pulmonary TB in the period 2007-2011, in illiterates, was
right next to the group with higher education (2.8% and 2%, respectively). Based on
this, several possibilities can approach an explanation of the high rate of TB in a
city with high HDI, as pockets of poverty, high endemic rates exposing the entire
population, and other factors that would require further analysis of the topic.
The Ministry of Health has encouraged the Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) to fight
tuberculosis and set targets to achieve 85% cure rate and decrease the dropout rate
of the regimen to 5% or less(1515 Brasil. Ministério da Saúde; Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde,
Departamento de Vigilância Epidemiológica. Manual de recomendações para o
controle da tuberculose no Brasil [Internet] Brasília; 2011 [citado 2013 out.
28]. Disponível em:
http://www.cve.saude.sp.gov.br/htm/TB/mat_tec/manuais/MS11_Manual_Recom.pdf
http://www.cve.saude.sp.gov.br/htm/TB/ma...
).
Still, Porto Alegre failed to achieve these levels, maintaining a low cure rate
(both in cases of incidence and prevalence, with 64.5% and 64.2%, respectively) and
a high dropout rate (22.1% and 29.5% respectively), not counting the non-performance
of DOT in 89.3% of new TB cases, which shows the predominance of adopting the
self-administered treatment in the city(505 Campani STA, Moreira JS, Tietbohel CN. Fatores preditores para o
abandono do tratamento da tuberculose pulmonar preconizado pelo Ministério da
Saúde do Brasil na cidade de Porto Alegre (RS). J Bras Pneumol.
2011;37(6):776-82). This may reflect a disorganized and deficient public
health system with only 36.77% of population coverage by the Family Health Strategy
(data relative to May 2014)(1616 Brasil. Ministério da Saúde, Departamento de Atenção Básica.
Histórico de Cobertura da Saúde da Família [Internet]. Brasília; 2013 [citado
2014 jun. 13]. Disponível em:
http://dab.saude.gov.br/portaldab/historico_cobertura_sf.php
http://dab.saude.gov.br/portaldab/histor...
).
In fact, a substantial decrease in the effectiveness of Tuberculosis Control
Programs was observed in Porto Alegre in recent years(1717 Micheletti VCD, Moreira JS, Ribeiro MO, Kritski AL, Braga JU.
Tuberculose resistente em pacientes incluídos no II Inquérito Nacional de
Resistência aos Fármacos Antituberculose realizado em Porto Alegre, Brasil. J
Bras Pneumol. 2014; 40 (2):155-63).
There is a lot of evidence that some of the factors responsible for the worsening of
tuberculosis in Rio Grande do Sul may be the following: the administrative political
disintegration of the health system in the region since the 80s, the lack of
motivation of public health professionals, the insurgency of HIV in the state in
1988, the expansion and intensification of the TB-HIV coinfection, the troubled
municipalization of health in the 1990’s, and the replacement of the traditional
approach and coordination responsible for combating TB in the state(1818 Ott WP, Jarczewski CA. Combate à tuberculose sob novo enfoque no Rio
Grande do Sul. Bol Epidemiol (Porto Alegre) [Internet]. 2007 [citado 2013 out.
28];9(5). Disponível em:
http://www1.saude.rs.gov.br/dados/1326721496607v.%209,%20n.%205,%20dez.,%202007.pdf
http://www1.saude.rs.gov.br/dados/132672...
).
Whatever the reasons, it is urgent to develop and implement effective strategies to control and combat the disease, because its dissemination is already evident and alarming in cities like Porto Alegre. The analysis of maps of TB prevalence and incidence from 2007 to 2011 shows the existence of any disease cases in virtually all regions of the municipality, despite the predominance in the north and east-central axis.
It is noteworthy that districts like Cavalhada, Ipanema and Cidade Baixa had an incidence rate greater than the prevalence already reported during the study period. In other places such as Jardim Floresta, this difference was even more remarkable with an average incidence of 30.24 and prevalence of 6.05. The proximity of surrounding areas with considerable rates of TB prevalence and incidence such as Jardim São Pedro (42.38 and 31.79 respectively) may represent one of the contributing factors to the spread of the disease in the region.
Although the districts of Vila João Pessoa and Santa Teresa presented remarkable prevalence rates, the same was not true for the incidence rate in the period 2007 to 2011. However, in previous years, there were records of high incidence rates for these districts(1919 Acostav LMW. O mapa de Porto Alegre e a tuberculose: distribuição espacial e determinantes sociais [dissertação]. Porto Alegre: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul; 2008). Thus, in the study period, the entry of cases in such districts may have occurred with a higher percentage of readmissions after treatment abandonment and relapses. Therefore, as there was no analysis on the type of entries of prevalent cases, it was not possible to confirm the accurate percentage of such stratified entries in the system.
The districts of Anchieta, Marcílio Dias, Navegantes, Bom Jesus and Centro draw the
attention because of their high averages of both prevalence and incidence of
bacilliferous pulmonary TB. The high rates of the Anchieta district (1,088.44
incidence and 1,224.49 prevalence) can be explained by its small resident population
(147 inhabitants)(1010 Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). Censo 2010.
Rio Grande do Sul [Internet]. Rio de Janeiro; 2011 [citado 2013 out. 25].
Disponível em:
http://www.ibge.gov.br/estadosat/perfil.php?sigla=rs#
http://www.ibge.gov.br/estadosat/perfil....
) that
influences the calculation of indicators. However, this does not explain the spread
of cases in the region. It could be linked to the fact that such district (along
with Navegantes and Marcílio Dias) is located in the region of Navegantes/Humaitá
that has considerable values of population density, reaching 2,891.40 inhabitants
per km². The same happens with Bom Jesus district (eastern region), in which the
population density reaches 14,226.73 inhabitants per km²(1111 Porto Alegre. Observatório da Cidade [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2013
[citado 2013 out. 28]. Disponível em:
http://www.observapoa.com.br/
http://www.observapoa.com.br/...
).
There is scientific evidence about the direct correlation between the transmission of
TB and human populous conglomerates, the same applying to poor housing
conditions(2020 Davies PDO. Risk factors for tuberculosis. Monaldi Arch Chest Dis.
2005;6 (1):37-46). The
previously mentioned regions of Navigators/Humaitá and East, have on average 3.36
and 3.58 residents living in substandard housing (1111 Porto Alegre. Observatório da Cidade [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2013
[citado 2013 out. 28]. Disponível em:
http://www.observapoa.com.br/
http://www.observapoa.com.br/...
), which may be an influential factor in the spread
of the disease.
The Centro district belongs to the region also called Centro that consists of 17 more
districts and concentrates 19.64% of the population of Porto Alegre. It has a
population density of 10,646.12 people per square kilometer and an average income of
heads of households in the range of 8.20 minimum wages(1111 Porto Alegre. Observatório da Cidade [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2013
[citado 2013 out. 28]. Disponível em:
http://www.observapoa.com.br/
http://www.observapoa.com.br/...
). TB cases of homeless people who were added to
this district certainly contributed to the rise in average rates of incidence and
prevalence of this disease in the region, however, even excluding the cases of
homeless, we would still get considerable final rates (43.93 of incidence and 50.57
of prevalence).
These rates could be related to a possible influence of the economic indicators of
the Centro district, such as the increase of heads of households with income of up
to one (1) minimum wage, an indicator that jumped from 2.08 in 2000 to 5.15 in 2010,
representing a worsening of 147.60% in the period, since for the purpose of
classification, the higher the value, the worse the situation(1111 Porto Alegre. Observatório da Cidade [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2013
[citado 2013 out. 28]. Disponível em:
http://www.observapoa.com.br/
http://www.observapoa.com.br/...
). Here two hypotheses could be
considered with regard to risk factors for TB: insufficient financial resources and
the resultant deprivation, and the increase of the EAP, with the entry of new heads
of households in the labor market. It is known that ‘Many patients are afraid that
if identified at work they can be fired despite the specific legislation that
guarantees the right to treatment. So, the stressful intensification of pace and
poor conditions of work, the threat of unemployment, characteristics of the current
reconfiguration of the Brazilian social-economic formation, contribute to aggravate
the situation’(2121 Pugliesi MV. A violência da tuberculose no Brasil: 6.000 mortes/ano
[Internet]. Rio de Janeiro: CECAC. 2013 [citado 2013 out. 29]. Disponível em:
http://www.cecac.org.br/MATERIAS/Tuberculose.htm
http://www.cecac.org.br/MATERIAS/Tubercu...
).
With respect to TB-HIV coinfection, the exam for detecting the Human Immunodeficiency
Virus was not done in 21.1% of incident cases and in 20% of prevalent cases. These
numbers may be considerable to a municipality that has high rates of TB-HIV
coinfection and occupies the first place in the ranking of the Brazilian capitals in
terms of incidence of AIDS (95.3 / 100,000 inhabitants in 2011)(2222 Boletim Epidemiológico Aids/DST. Brasília: Ministério da Saúde
[Internet]. 2012 [citado 2013 out. 30];9(1). Disponível em:
http://www.aids.gov.br/sites/default/files/anexos/publicacao/2012/52654/vers_o_preliminar_boletim_aids_e_dst_2012_14324.pdf
http://www.aids.gov.br/sites/default/fil...
). However, there is an imminent
change in this scenario, given that Porto Alegre was considered a pioneer in
offering the rapid HIV test in the basic health network, launched in June 2012, what
will possibly influence the detection of cases.
We also notice that TB-HIV coinfection is not an occurrence that reaches only
peripheral regions, a fact confirmed by the high rates (both incident and prevalent
cases) of the Bela Vista district, whose residents have privileged socioeconomic
conditions, with average income of heads of households of approximately 16.11
minimum wages(1111 Porto Alegre. Observatório da Cidade [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2013
[citado 2013 out. 28]. Disponível em:
http://www.observapoa.com.br/
http://www.observapoa.com.br/...
). Although there
is a considerable link between high rates of coinfection and low socioeconomic
development, there are evidences of spread of the disease to a scenario of
remarkable social development, setting precedents to consider two perspectives of
the occurrence of TB: the traditional, linked to poverty and the excluded and
marginalized groups, and the coinfection with HIV and AIDS, which includes
integrated groups(2323 Souza AG, Fukushima M, Pereira TB, Tatsch JFS, Picanço MRA, Miranda
Junior UJP. Contextualização de aspectos sociais da coinfecção TB/HIV no
Distrito Federal. Rev Eletr Gestão Saúde [Internet]. 2013 [citado 2013 out.
28];4(1):1516-29. Disponível em:
http://www.gestaoesaude.unb.br/index.php/gestaoesaude/article/view/261
http://www.gestaoesaude.unb.br/index.php...
).
With respect to the low-income and vulnerable population, the district of Praia de
Belas (tied with Farroupilha in second place for the incident cases of TB-HIV
coinfection) had a village (Vila Chocolatão) with also high rates of TB. Currently,
for urban restructuring reasons, this needy population was relocated and settled in
the north of the city. The Farroupilha district (first in prevalent cases of TB-HIV
coinfection and second in incident cases) in turn, has reduced dimensions and
represents only 0.07% of the city population (961 inhabitants)(1111 Porto Alegre. Observatório da Cidade [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2013
[citado 2013 out. 28]. Disponível em:
http://www.observapoa.com.br/
http://www.observapoa.com.br/...
), which may influence the
statistical results.
In search of new strategies for detecting, preventing and combating TB and TB-HIV
coinfection, the State Department of Health of Rio Grande do Sul published a
proposal for an action plan for 2011 based on strategies of decentralization of
tuberculosis control actions for the Primary Care, integrated actions with the
STD/AIDS program, actions in prisons, actions in vulnerable populations, training on
Tuberculin Test, actions with civil society organizations, among others(2424 Rio Grande do Sul. Secretaria Estadual de Saúde; Centro Estadual de
Vigilância em Saúde, Divisão de Vigilância Epidemiólogica. O Plano Estadual de
Controle da Uuberculose [Internet]. Porto Alegre; 2010 [citado 2013 out. 31].
Disponível em:
http://www.saude.rs.gov.br/upload/1339784445_Plano%20Estadual%20de%20Controle%20da%20Tuberculose.pdf
http://www.saude.rs.gov.br/upload/133978...
). It is expected to achieve
positive results after that.
Conclusion
Porto Alegre faces a double burden, both in relation to TB as TB-HIV coinfection and AIDS, placing it in a serious epidemic situation in the Brazilian scenario. The spread of TB in the county has put at risk not only the group commonly affected by the disease (admittedly the EAP), but also children and adolescents.
The TB incidence has worsened in some districts and surrounding areas, reflecting an increase in new and prevalent cases in 2007- 2011 period. The high HDI of Porto Alegre becomes a contradictory data when confronted with the alarming disease scenario of the city.
Unquestionably, the expansion and qualification of public services are priority needs of the society. The decentralization of services and actions for TB and HIV/AIDS to make them effective requires not only political will but a structured and functional basic network, adequate funding, properly trained and motivated professionals, and the involvement of the population, without which a satisfactory level of success will be hardly achieved.
The factors that have contributed to the alarming epidemiological picture of Porto Alegre in relation to TB and TB-HIV coinfection, whether they are political, cultural, socioeconomic or structural, cannot be precisely affirmed. We recognize, however, the need of formulating, planning and monitoring the health actions that result in transformations of impact in public health policies, making them appropriate, effective and efficient. In this sense, the present study can serve as a tool for planning, formulating and implementing new local public policies, restructuring services to the community, and for the adoption of strategic approaches to improve the whole situation of conjunctural health.
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