INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF MEDICINE SECTION: INFECTIOUS DISEASES ISSN: 1755-7682 International Medical Society http://imedicalsociety.org 1 2017 Vol. 10 No. 73 doi: 10.3823/2343 © Under License of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License This article is available at: www.intarchmed.com and www.medbrary.com Abstract The prison populations is considered vulnerable due heterogeneity of confinement, whose predisposing factors are the lifestyle of individuals and prison conditions. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of HIV and associated factors reported in studies conducted in prisons in Brazil. An integrative review was carried out, with a search in the databases LILACS, MEDLINE and SCIELO, including articles published from 2000. The final sample that met the inclusion and exclusion cri- teria totaled 11 articles. prevalences were found ranging from 3.2% to 16%. This review made it possible to find average of 10.6% prevalen- ce. Predominated as risk factors: drug use, piercing material sharing, inappropriate sexual behavior and STDs. There was a need for more comprehensive surveys, which provides a situational diagnosis of HIV in this population, so as to reveal specific aspects of individual, social and programmatic vulnerabilities in each region of Brazil. HIV Prevalence in Internal from Brazilian Prisons and Its Associated Factors: Integrative Literature Review REVIEW Karinna Alves Amorim de Sousa 1 , Telma Maria Evangelista de Araújo 2 1 Nurse, Doctoral Student of Federal University of Piauí-UFPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brasil. 2 Nurse, Doutora em Saúde Coletiva. Professor, Department of Nursing, Federal University of Piauí, UFPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brasil. Contact information: Karinna Alves Amorim de Sousa. Address: Jose Maria Moedas Street, 813, Campo Bello Condominium, 32nd house. Gurupi Neighborhood. Teresina, Piauí. Brazil. Zip code. 64.090.225. Tel: +55 (86)99993-4579.  karinnaduda@gmail.com Keywords HIV; Prevalence; Prisons. Introduction New development cycle of the AIDS epidemic is revealed in Brazil, with low prevalence rates in the general population, in contrast to high prevalence in some population subgroups [1]. Among the po- pulations of greater vulnerability to HIV status, lies the population private of freedom (PPL), considered highly vulnerable in a high risk environment, due to heterogeneity of confinement in the same space, greater exposure to physical, psychological risk and transmission of infectious diseases [2]. Brazil has experienced an increase in its prison population of 143% in the 1995-2005 period, when went from 148,000 to 361,402 in- mates in a decade, with annual growth rates of around 12% per