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Ariel A Torres-Rodríguez1, Martha M Fors-López2
1AT: MD. Esp. Primer Grado en Medicina. General Integral. M. Sc. Enfermedades Infecciosas, Infectólogo y Sub-Director Hospital General "Dr. Gustavo Dominguez Zambrano", Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. ariton74@gmail.com.
Objective:
A descriptive, correlational, retrospective cross-sectional study was carried out to determine if there was any dependence between sex and the results of HIV/AIDS screening tests in the 08D01 district of the city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, for the period covered January-December 2016.
Materials And Methods:
100% of the people who were screened for HIV/AIDS were included in the study. Central tendency measures such as mean, rank and percentage were used, as well as Chi square tests to determine dependence between both variables.
Conclusions:
There is a higher prevalence in men than in women, reaching a ratio of one woman infected with HIV/AIDS for every 1.2 men, as well as a tendency to have a significant increase of reactive results in males and a decrease of reactive results in the female sex when performing the test.
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