THE IMPACT OF HIV IN THE OLD AGE

Described first at 1981,the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a secondary entity for the infection by the HIV, a retrovirus first seen in chimps, probably it natural host. According to the United Nations Program for HIV/AIDS, on December 2010, was living at world 34 million person infected with HIV . The epidemic situation has been established in Latin America, among 100.000 new cases per year. Nowadays, HIV is faced by a process that is strongly pronounced with increasement of women, elder, heterosexual, and pour patients infected. In the beginning of epidemy, since 1980 until 1995, Brazil registered the measure between one female case for 3,88 other masculine cases. Only, in 2014, the proportion is one women for 1,86 men infected. The situation is more complicated on elder, they represent 4,5% of new cases between 2010 and 2014, most of them illiterate or high school incompleted. It reveals a really improvement, that was stronger at women, 3169 cases identified, 1,81% of all new cases in Brazil. The study, describes information collected at DATASUS, SCIELO and PUBMED, seeking to promote reflection about the prolongation of population sexual life and future interventions about sexual diseases care specifically in this risk group.