Prejudice, vulnerability, accession process, religiosity regarding the life routine with AIDS: life stories

Abstract

Objective: To communicate life stories of people who suffer from acquired immunodeficiency-syndrome with a higher vulnerability registered at the Municipal Secretary of Social Assistance and the diagnostic’s influence on their daily routine.
 Method: Descriptive and exploratory study based on oral life history. Thirteen people with AIDs took part in the study via a semi-structured interview. The narratives were analyzed using Bardin’s thematic content analysis.
 Results: Three thematic axes emerged from Bardin’s content analysis: prejudice and discrimination regarding the life routine with aids; Reaction when facing the diagnostic and the adhesion process for the antiretroviral treatment; Confrontation of religion and religiousness on people with aids.
 Conclusion: The people living with aids, a chronic and stigmatizing disease, need the support of multidisciplinary teams and an improvement in relation to the access, the coverage and the meaning assigned to the disease, besides a better quality of life and social assistance. We conclude that religion did not contribute to facing these people’s conditions. It brought blame, incorrect information that may impair the treatment and their follow-up. One infers that health education regarding HIV/AIDS needs to be remodeled on all of society’s segments.

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“…For this type of action, the creation of a bond and trust by the professional is opportune to approach the patient and accompany him / her by encouraging the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. 9 It is believed that the study will enable the construction of knowledge to subsidize health professionals, who work with families and seropositive children, to develop more effective strategies of care, reducing the impact of their diagnosis.…”