Title
Clinical situation of Venezuelan migrants living with HIV in a hospital in Lima, Peru
Date Issued
01 October 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Ltd
Abstract
Due to a huge crisis extensive to health services many Venezuelan people living with HIV (PLWH) had migrated abroad, including Peru where favorable laws were in place until June 2019. We describe the health status and epidemiological trends of PLWH from Venezuela at an HIV program in Lima. We analyzed baseline and follow-up data of all Venezuelan PLWH enrolled in our HIV program from January 2017 to December 2019. A cross-sectional study in a subsample served to describe ARV adherence and context of migration. Between 2017-2019 our HIV Program registered 398 Venezuelan PLWH, representing 20% of the 2018 annual enrollments; numbers decreased since mid-2019. The median age was 30 years (IQR 26;37) and 90.5% were men. Between 2017 and 2019, the proportion with diagnosis in Peru increased from 14.3% to 60.9%; of AIDS stage at entry, from 8.8% to 27.2%. By December 2019, 182/250 (72.8%) were still in care, and 43 (10.8%) had not started ART. Viral suppression evaluated in 195, was achieved in 71.8%. From 2017 to 2019, migrant PLWH arrived in worsened clinical conditions, with increasing diagnosis in Peru; the flow of migrant PLWH entering care diminished with less favorable laws. Viral suppression rates were suboptimal.
Start page
1157
End page
1164
Volume
32
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Inmunología Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85108647437
PubMed ID
Source
International Journal of STD and AIDS
ISSN of the container
0956-4624
Sponsor(s)
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The financial contribution of UNAIDS towards this activity is gratefully acknowledged. However, its content and ideas expressed therein do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of UNAIDS or engage the responsibility of UNAIDS; research reported in this publication was supported by the Fogarty International Center and National Institute of Child Health & Human Development of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number D43 TW009763. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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