Reconnecting lives: health care practices from the perspective of People Living With HIV/AIDS

Abstract

The study aimed to identify strategies to qualify the practices of health care destined to People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), especially the accompanying at health care services. Four pedagogical workshops were carried out, between September 2021 and February 2022, in which PLWHA who live in Belo Horizonte and Metropolitan region were invited to share their experiences regarding HIV/AIDS and to reflect about how formal and informal groups, represented graphically by the technique of Venn Diagram, can contribute to qualify health care practices destined to PLWHA. Twenty PLWHA joined the study; thirteen cisgender men, six cisgender women and one trans woman. The elements included at the Diagram have been categorized at dimensions: structural, informational, and relational. The results demonstrate that, despite the advance at structural dimension, we have evolved very little when it comes to main elements from relational and informational dimensions. The morals metaphors about HIV/AIDS and the stigma remain modeling practices of health care for PLWHA, emphasizing the urgent reconstruction of these practices. We comprehend that this reconstruction demands the rescue of the participation and citizenship, consolidated by the empowerment of assistance policies and prevention to HIV/AIDS as well the assurance of human rights.