Virus Papiloma Humano en mujeres de 15 a 60 años atendidas en un centro de salud en la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The human papilloma virus is a sexually transmitted disease, which is acquired by having sex with an infected or promiscuous person, nowadays there is a lot of talk about this infection, since studies carried out worldwide indicate that there is a high level of infected people for lack of prevention, since this disease attacks more women than men whose symptoms are asymptomatic until a gynecological evaluation and cytological examination that justifies the appearance as an erythema accompanied by pruritus which becomes papules and is in its Once in warts, which can appear in genital areas, buccal, anal or elsewhere in the body these can occur in months or in some years. Therefore our objective is to determine the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of Human Papilloma Virus in women aged 15 to 60 years attending the health center of the city of Guayaquil, the method used was descriptive and quantitative the universe was composed of 70 patients who attended the consultation, an instrument was applied based on questions for the collection of information reaching as a result that 50% of people are unaware of the symptoms of this infection and as a conclusion we can mention that a large percentage of the respondents have not received information on how to prevent this sexually transmitted disease.