The impact of pandemic COVID-19 on human immunodeficiency virus patients: A brief integrative literature review
Abstract
Objective: To describe the impact of the pandemic of COVID-19 on patients living with human immunodeficiency virus. Methods: This is a descriptive and exploratory research; the search for data was conducted through the Virtual Health Library (VHL), SCIELO (Scientifie Electronic Library Online), and CAPES Periodicals. For the selection of articles, it was taken into consideration the application of inclusion criteria: publications between 2020 and 2022 and exclusion: publications before the year 2020. Results: According to the research carried out it was necessary to do a bibliographic survey on top of the keywords: human immunodeficiency virus, SARS-CoV-2, and CD4, where we saw that many of these articles were related to patients living with HIV/AIDS and that in the isolation period, the same ones for remained without doing some tests such as CD4 and leading, at the same time, the hospitalization of the same ones in the reference units for COVID-19. Final Considerations: However, it is not known if the infection by HIV/AIDS associated with low CD4 levels, when not controlled correctly, can lead to a greater risk for SARS-CoV-2, because it is a potent virus.
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