Teaching and talking about AIDS: dermatologic aspects.
Int Conf AIDS 1994 Aug 7-12; 10:92 (abstract no. SS3) Serra M; Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The number of AIDS patients in Brazil is still growing and spreading the disease through all the society and not anymore just in the risk groups. Laboratories exams are not available for all patients, so clinical observation is extremely important. Teaching physicians to pay attention for these aspects and sharing the experience of how and why talk about AIDS is helping in the prevention and treatment of the disease in our community. Skin is the most affected organ on AIDS and sometimes the first to be attacked. We emphasize that some dermatologic manifestations are markers of disease progression and alert to a possible early diagnose in aparentely healthful population, or the necessity or not to start an anti-retroviral therapy, or the evidence of failure of the patient therapeutic scheme. With these datas primary care physicians started to diagnose unknown HIV positive patients, and help on AIDS transmission, treatment and prevention, making population more conscious and talking about AIDS with less prejudice and more knowledge.
Keywords: AEGIS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, HIV Infections, Teaching, Physicians, Family, Prejudice, Health Education, Patient Education, Education, Medical, Continuing, Health Services Accessibility, Brazil, Human, education, ICA10 940807
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