• Hilka Flávia Barra Espírito Santo Alves Pereira, Gabriel Pacífico Seabra Nunes, Henrique Vieira Pereira, Karollina Deon E Silva, Maiara Magri Pereira Olenchi, Thais Cristina Fonseca da Silva, Valbécia Tavares de Aguiar, Valéria Santos da Costa, Kátia Luz Torres, and Agnaldo Lopes da Silva Filho.
• Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu School of Medicine, Post-graduation in Obstetrics and Gynecology - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
• Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992). 2023 Jan 1; 69 (8): e20230204e20230204.

ObjectiveThis study aimed to assess the sociodemographic and clinical profile of women deprived of their liberty and to identify the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases and human papillomavirus through self-sampling samples.MethodsThis is an epidemiological, cross-sectional, observational, and descriptive study of the prevalence and correlation of the diagnosis of human papillomavirus infection in 268 encarcered women in Amazonas submitted to self-sampling from June 2019 to September 2020 using the genotyping analysis. Patients with positive and inconclusive results were evaluated by commercialized PCR to detect pathogens causing sexually transmitted diseases. The sample size used was based on a convenience sample.ResultsIn 268 women, human papillomavirus DNA was detected in 87 (32.5%) of them. Sexually transmitted diseases were detected in 30 (34.48%) of the 87 women with a positive or inconclusive result for human papillomavirus. Women with more than three pregnancies had a higher risk of human papillomavirus detection (p=0.004).ConclusionThe prevalence of human papillomavirus and other sexually transmitted diseases in encarcered women in Amazonas is 32.5 and 34.48%, respectively. Most women were single (60.4%) and reported having had more than 15 partners (90.8%).

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