Abstract
Objective: To identify the scientific evidence of the literature on social support for adolescents with HIV / AIDS.
 Methods: An integrative review was carried out in the LILACS, BDENF and MEDLINE / PubMed databases, conducted in January 2017.
 Results: 12 articles, published between 2005 and 2015, were selected and analyzed, which pointed to the importance of social support to adolescents living with HIV / AIDS. It’s important to highlight the particular importance of support from relatives and non-relatives, especially regarding to health services and non-governmental organizations.
 Conclusions: The support offered by both family members and institutions is considered a potentiating factor in physical, social and psychological health, in positive behaviors and in coping with the condition of living with HIV and AIDS.
Highlights
The discovery of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and its etiological agent, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), became an important milestone in the history of global health in the late twentieth century, despite the great advance in scientific knowledge and therapeutic plans
Due to the existence of scarce data in the current literature on the social support to adolescents living with HIV/AIDS, it was felt the need to conduct such study
The present study used the following guiding question: what are the scientific evidences from the literature regarding social support offered to adolescents living with HIV/AIDS?
Summary
The discovery of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and its etiological agent, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), became an important milestone in the history of global health in the late twentieth century, despite the great advance in scientific knowledge and therapeutic plans. In more than three decades of the HIV epidemic, this aggravating health problem still represents a great impact in public health [1]. Adolescents have a high risk of HIV infection. The age group of 15 to 25 years accounts for 20% of new virus infections. In Brazil, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that between 2007 and 2016, there were 8,023 cases of adolescents with HIV/AIDS in the age group of 10 to 19 years, which comprises adolescence. The population with highest incidence of the disease is concentrated in countries with ineffective health services, extreme poverty, poor dietary conditions and high rates of violence [2,3,4]
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