Análisis de la vulnerabilidad social y de género en la díada migración y VIH/sida entre mujeres mayas de Yucatán

Abstract

Resumen: En el presente artículo se exponen y analizan una serie de condiciones sociales, tanto materiales como simbólicas, de la vida de mujeres mayas, parejas de migrantes, que configuran escenarios de vulnerabilidad social y de género que incrementan su potencial adquisición de VIH/sida. Se abordan asimismo temas como el acceso a la educación y la salud, el sistema de creencias, significados y prácticas en torno al cuerpo, sexualidad y vida en pareja, así como sus conocimientos y significados acerca del VIH/sida, sus mecanismos de transmisión y formas de prevención. Concluimos analizando su percepción de riesgo y prácticas de autocuidado ante el VIH y las infecciones de transmisión sexual. Esta información permite vislumbrar estrategias de prevención que sean pertinentes y eficaces en función de las necesidades y contextos de las mujeres investigadas.Palabras clave: VIH/sida, migración, vulnerabilidad social, género, mujeres mayas. Abstract:This article describes and analyzes a series of social conditions, both material and symbolic, in the lives of Mayan women with migrant partners, which create situations of social and gender vulnerability that increase their potential of acquiring HIV/AIDS. It analyzes the women's access to education and healthcare, their system of beliefs, meanings, and practices in relation to their body, their sexuality and family life, as well as their knowledge and understanding about HIV/AIDS, their transmission mechanisms and forms of prevention. It concludes by analyzing the women's risk perception of HIV/AIDS and the daily forms of self-care they employ to prevent STDs. This information should be useful for envisioning relevant and effective intervention strategies for prevention purposes, which target Mayan women with migrant partners.

Locating Zika

“…For example, cultural biases on sexual education in Yucatan have not been well addressed in this new scenario. A recent study demonstrated that two concepts are key to understand the wider context of HIV in Yucatan: social vulnerability and riskgroups (Quintal-López et al, 2014). These researchers focused heavily on indigenous immigrants as a high-risk HIV group, which offers an important frame for thinking about the social vulnerability of pregnant women to ZIKV.…”

Vulnerabilidad frente al VIH/sida en gais y bisexuales en el contexto migratorio: e\l caso de los inmigrantes colombianos residentes en España

“…Both shape their expectations and their cultural comprehension of the destination country, since "vulnerability is a situation that emerges as consequence of the social interaction of foreigners in a country with its 'natives'" (Bustamante, 1998, p. 8, our translation). Thus, the vulnerability is an endogenous process, in which the "health-disease dyad is conditioned by marginalization, poverty, lack of access to education and to health care circumstances, gender relations, social organization, and values and beliefs that are dominant inside a certain social group" (Quintal;Vera, 2015, p. 202, our translation).…”