Abstract
Learn about the perception of health professionals who perform rapid tests in Health Centers (HCs). This is a descriptive and qualitative study conducted in nine HCs in Recife. Data were collected through individual interviews and evaluated using Bardin's content analysis, in its thematic category. Challenges were observed in rapid tests related to the supply of products, physical structure, training for pre- and post-test counseling, and the need for improvements in permanent education actions. These issues can be resolved with management improvements, systematization of permanent education activities, and definition of care flows that enable early diagnosis. Besides the diagnosis, care lines should be created for people living with HIV and AIDS who use the HCs for early health care process.
Highlights
Health Centers (HCs) are characterized by the individual and collective health care actions they offer to promote and protect health, prevent health complication, support diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation
Two categories were identified, related to the perception of the professionals in rapid test practice performed in the HCs located in Recife, Pernambuco: issues to perform rapid tests referring to the delivery of products, physical structure for testing and pre- and post-test counseling; and opportunities for improvements in professional training and promotion of educational activities referring to the need to systematize permanent education activities, with emphasis on pre- and post-test counseling and receipt of educational material to support educational activities
The results of this study showed the challenges when performing rapid tests for HIV detection in the studied units
Summary
Health Centers (HCs) are characterized by the individual and collective health care actions they offer to promote and protect health, prevent health complication, support diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. In this sense, they aim to develop integral care with impact on people’s health situation and the autonomy and on health determinants of people collectively. Basic care is considered the door to the Brazilian Unified Health System (UHS). In this perspective, the population’s health monitoring, including follow-up, prevention and control of HIV infection and AIDS in an integral and resolving manner, is very pertinent. The diagnosis and follow-up of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), so far centralized, should be decentralized in specialized care services (SCS)(3-5)
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