TY - JOUR AU - Macio, Rodrigo PY - 2017/03/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - HIV patients in intensive care units JF - Brazilian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases JA - DST VL - 29 IS - 2 SE - Editorial DO - UR - https://bjstd.org/revista/article/view/792 SP - 3-3 AB - <p>The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a global public health problem, with about 36.7 million infected people in 160 different countries by the end of 2015<sup>(1)</sup>. In Brazil, 842,710 cases — according to the Ministry of Health — from 1980 to June 2016<sup>(2)</sup>. Since its adoption in 1996, the concept of the Combined Antiretroviral Therapy (cART), also known as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), changed the natural history of the infection: it improved prognosis and decreased mortality, leading therefore to the chronicity of the disease<sup>(3)</sup>. [...]</p> ER -