Int Conf AIDS 1989 Jun 4-9; 5:169 (abstract no. A.554) Barbieri DD, Buchala CM, Guidugli R, Lima LO; Centro de Regerencia e Treinamento da Secretaria de Estado da Saude de Sao Paulo, Brazil
The violent deaths, the suspects deaths and deaths with any delictous evidence must be investigated by a judicial autopsy. Considering the stigmatizing character of AIDS, the high incidence in homosexual and drug abusers and the high prevalence in prisons we expected that suicide, homicides and suspect deaths could occur in persons with AIDS more than in the general population. Through a retrospective approach of the reports of the "Instituto Medico Legal" of Sao Paulo City a statistical analysis will be done of the victims seropositive to the HIV as well as a comparison with the behavior of AIDS in Sao Paulo City. It will be also discussed the probable nexus between AIDS and the mechanisms of death. From May 1985 to October 1988, 97 bodies infected by HIV arrived at the "Instituto Medico Legal". They represented 0,3% of all the autopsies performed in this period. Of these cases, 55,7% were from natural death, 23.7% from suicide and 20,6% from homicide.
Keywords: AEGIS, Autopsy, HIV Infections, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV, Suicide, Homicide, Cause of Death, Prisons, HIV Seroprevalence, Death, Incidence, Death Certificates, Death, Sudden, Retrospective Studies, ICA5
