Reasons of Women for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections Luana Cristina Melo de Oliveira 1 , Isaura Leticia Tavares Palmeira Rolim 1 , Geysa Santos Gois Lopes 1* , Eliana Brugin Serra 1 , Maria do Carmo Rodrigues Araujo 1 , Regina Maria Abreu Mota 1 , Aurean D’Eca Junior 1 , Poliana Pereira Costa Rabelo 1 , Cindy Reboucas Palmeira 2 , Emilia Soares Chaves Rouberte 3 , Sara Maria Ferreira de Sousa 4 1 Federal University of Maranhao, Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil 2 University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil 3 University of the International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony, Brazil 4 SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals, Brazil Research Article Received date: 05/11/2019; Accepted date: 15/11/2019; Published date: 25/11/2019; * For Correspondence: Geysa Santos GOIS Lopes, Federal University of MARANHAO, SAO LUIS, MARANHAO, Brazil. Address: Avenida dos Portugueses, 1966, Vila Bacanga, São Luís - MA, Brazil, CEP: 65080-030 Tel: +55 98 98233-5252 E-mail: geysagois@hotmail.com Keywords: Sexually transmitted diseases, Treatment access, Disease prevention, Women, Women ’ s health, Qualitative research ABSTRACT Objective: To recognize the reasons that lead to the process of accession of women to the treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections. Materials and methods: It is an exploratory research with a qualitative approach carried out with 20 participants in a city in the northeast of Brazil. Data were collected by means of semi- structured interviews with thematic content analysis. Results and Discussion: From the establishment of the corpus and analysis of the content it was possible to identify meaning cores that were described in two categories: Treatment and Prevention: strengths and weaknesses; and Knowledge and reasons for prevention and treatment. Final considerations: There was identified the reasons and weaknesses for women performing the treatment and prevention of STI’s, which are: the need to overcome and test their own limits are indicated as reasons for accession to treatment and the inability to impose themselves against their partner is flagged as a fragility to access preventive measures. There was identified, yet, that women indicate certain dissatisfaction with the knowledge they have and realize that they need more information. INTRODUCTION Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIS) are a variety of clinical syndromes and infections caused by pathogens transmitted through sexual activity [1] . The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the worldwide occurrence of one million cases per day. The year the incidence is approximately 357 million between HPV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Syphilis Research & Reviews: Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences J Nurs Health Sci | Volume 5 | Issue 3 | November 2019 16