TITLE:
Arboviruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Bioceanic Route: Health Indicators in a Municipality
AUTHORS:
Paloma Almeida Kowalski, João Pedro Arantes da Cunha, Erika Kaneta Ferri, Natália Scigliano, Rachel Carvalho Lemos, Emily Ruiz Cavalcante, Vitor Keisi Medeiros Kataoka, Fabiana Moreira Coutinho, Elton Hiroyuki Ytamura Moriya, Leonardo Marzola Hirata, Gabriela Félix Dias Lima, Letícia Roque Ribeiro, Lucas Matheus Pinto, Sávio Carvalho Cobianchi, Paulo Otávio Souza Leonel
KEYWORDS:
Bioceanic Route, Epidemiology, Public Health, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Arboviruses
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Infectious Diseases,
Vol.11 No.4,
November
1,
2021
ABSTRACT: Background: the physical integration of South America through a Bioceanic Corridor has been idealized for a long time by the countries that make up Mercosur. This integration will have impacts on the population residing in the cities where the route will be built. Among them, Porto Murtinho, southern Mato Grosso on the border with Paraguay, stands out, where a bridge will be built over the Paraguay River that will link these two countries. Methods: a retrospective, quantitative and cross-sectional study of a descriptive type of documentary approach that sought to analyze the prevalence of arboviruses, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Diseases Related to Inadequate Environmental Sanitation (DRIES) notified and stored in the National System of Notifiable Diseases (SINAN). The sample consisted of new cases of these pathologies in the municipality of Porto Murtinho registered between January 2017 and December 2020. Results: there was an increase of 10% in the total number of diseases within this period. The number of dengue cases increased 36 times; the incidence of Syphilis, HIV and HPV decreased; and, finally, maintenance of cases of Gonorrhea, Leptospirosis, Yellow Fever, Zika, Chikungunya, Hepatitis A and B. Conclusions: actions are needed to prevent the increase of these pathologies together with the construction of the Bioceanic Route, thus avoiding damage population health and increased consumption of government resources.