Antecedentes: Hasta la actualidad, el VIH continúa siendo un problema de salud pública desde su aparición en 1981 a nivel mundial. El acceso al tratamiento del VIH es esencial para evitar la progresión a la fase terminal del SIDA y puedan mantener una carga viral indetectable. Ahora bien, América Latina y El Caribe es la región con mayor desigualdad en salud, lo cual pone en riesgo a las personas viviendo con VIH. Objetivos: Determinar la magnitud de las desigualdades en el acceso de cobertura del tratamiento antirretroviral en personas viviendo con VIH/SIDA (PVVS) según los determinantes socioeconómicos en países de América Latina y El Caribe entre el 2000 y 2020. Material y Métodos: Estudio ecológico. Se utilizaron los indicadores de cobertura de tratamiento antirretroviral (TARGA) de la base de datos del Banco Mundial. Posteriormente, se analizó los indicadores de 24 paí...

Objective: To analyze the variation in attendance and diagnoses after the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in the pediatric emergency department. The study: Analytical retrospective cross-sectional study. Pediatric emergency department visits were compared between epidemiological weeks 1 and 52 of the years 2020 and 2021, analyzing sociodemographic characteristics, condition and diagnosis. Chi-square was used for bivariate analysis. Findings: A 77.8% increase was found in the number of attentions during the year 2021 compared to 2020. There was a 4% increase in infectious diseases and a 9.2% increase in respiratory diseases. In addition, a decrease of 8.7% was observed in gastrointestinal diseases. Conclusion: The results indicate that after the start of the national vaccination campaign, there was a significant increase in the number of patients compared to 2020, mainly fo...

Objective: To analyze the variation in attendance and diagnoses after the national vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in the pediatric emergency department. The study: Analytical retrospective cross-sectional study. Pediatric emergency department visits were compared between epidemiological weeks 1 and 52 of the years 2020 and 2021, analyzing sociodemographic characteristics, condition and diagnosis. Chi-square was used for bivariate analysis. Findings: A 77.8% increase was found in the number of attentions during the year 2021 compared to 2020. There was a 4% increase in infectious diseases and a 9.2% increase in respiratory diseases. In addition, a decrease of 8.7% was observed in gastrointestinal diseases. Conclusion: The results indicate that after the start of the national vaccination campaign, there was a significant increase in the number of patients compared to 2020, mainly fo...