Distribuição temporal das notificações por sífilis congênita nas capitais da região Centro-Oeste brasileira

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe the temporal and sociodemographic distribution of congenital syphilis (CS) cases in the Brazilian capitals of the Central-West region. MATERIAL AND METHOD: Descriptive and epidemiological study, of the ecological type, carried out with data from the Information System for Notifiable Diseases (SINAN) obtained via DataSUS. All CS notifications from the capitals of the Brazilian Central-West region during the studied period were included and disaggregated according to the variables of mother's age group, mother's race/color, and child's age group. Data collection was carried out in September 2024, by extracting notification data by reference year and place of residence from the DataSUS website. The data were tabulated in a Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheet and grouped according to the variables of interest. Descriptive analyses were performed according to year of occurrence and capital of occurrence. RESULTS: Between 2014 and 2023, 4,987 cases of CS were reported in the capitals of the Central-West Region. Brasília had the highest number of records, totaling 2,839 cases, which is equivalent to 56.9% of the notifications. Next came Campo Grande with 19.4%, Goiânia with 14.8% and, lastly, Cuiabá, which recorded 8.9% of the cases. The years with the highest number of confirmed cases were 2017 and 2022. In all capitals, there was an increase in notifications of children up to 6 days old, mothers aged between 20 and 24 years and children born to brown women. CONCLUSION: The study points out variation in CS cases in the Central-West and highlights flaws in data collection, making complete analysis difficult. It reinforces the importance of preventive actions, improvements in prenatal care and notification recording, especially for vulnerable groups, aiming to reduce the incidence of CS in Brazil.