TRANSGENDER POPULATION CHARACTERIZATION IN TWO PRIMARY CARE HEALTH SERVICES (BRAZIL - URUGUAY)

Introduction and Objectives There are groups whose rights have historically been neglected and violated as the transgender population. Since February 2014 Teaching and Assistance Unit Saint Bois (Montevideo) provides integral care for transgender people. Within the international internships framework this service has received trainees from Brazil, who then created a similar service in Florianopolis (Health Center Lagoa da Conceiçao). The aim of this paper is to describe a characterization of transgender population assisted so far in these two services. Methodology It was studied the overall population assisted since the two services were created, in the period 2014-2015 in Saint Bois, 70 patients and during 2015 in Lagoa da Conceiçao, 64 patients. Data was collected by reviewing medical records Results and Conclusions Variables MONTEVIDEO / FLORIANOPOLIS Age 19 or less 9 6   20-39 44 56   40-64 12 2 65 or more 0 0   N/D 5 0   Gender M 29 29   F 35 35   Not identified 3 0   N/D 3 0   Sexual Orientation Homo 7 1   Hetero 47 56   Bisexual 3 7 N/D 13 0 Hormonization under medical supervision YES 35 44 NO 29 20   N/D 6 0   Change of sex YES 19 1 and legal name NO 37 63   N/D 14 0 Surgeries coordinated from services Trans male 7 0   Trans women 1 0 The joint analysis of this information allows to know not only the population but also intrinsic characteistics of the performance of each service, we believe this promotes the search for strategies to improve care in each country.