Porcentaje de mujeres embarazadas diagnosticadas con sífilis en el Hospital Distrital Inmaculada Concepción de Caaguazú, Paraguay

Abstract

Paraguay has carried out a study of seroprevalence of Syphilis and HIV in puerperal women at the national level in 2016, with a total of 3,983 women admitted to 21 health care facilities, resulting in 0.34% HIV prevalence and 3.89% prevalence syphilis. The current policy of the country aims to intervene in the population of pregnant women with the joint strategy of HIV and syphilis, their partners and their children, facilitating, from primary health care, access to timely diagnosis, follow-up of them in the system of health, prophylaxis of pregnant women with HIV, treatment of syphilis in pregnant women and their sexual partners / s, prophylaxis of exposed children and provision of breast milk substitutes. The objective of the research was to determine the percentage of syphilis in pregnant women treated at the Inmaculada Concepción Caaguazú District Hospital, Paraguay during the period from January to December 2016, the cross-sectional descriptive observational research design, using sources of bibliographic materials, based on information from books, journals and scientific articles, the data were obtained from the Epidemiology area, which includes among other variables: diagnosis, patient age, origin, gestational age, laboratory, number of prenatal visits , academic instruction, treatment of pregnant women.