Mulheres vivenciando o estigma decorrente da AIDS

Abstract

It has been more than two decades that the world has lived with the HIV. Within the passing years we’ve learned a lot about ways of transmission, more efficient medical treatments, more accurate laboratory results, immunity, and so on. It’s still evident, however, the stigma experienced with the discovery of the disease. That signalizes that the person is stamped and rejected. To carry a stigma means to carry a characteristic not accepted by the society. Based on this fact, those people have gone through many embarrassing situations and their chances of living a normal life have been reduced. That way, when a woman faces the positive HIV diagnostic she experiences uncertainty feelings and insecurity; those feelings lead her to a moment of crisis. Taking all of this into account, the aim of this work is to find out about the stigmas that surround the women with HIV infection. This investigation is descriptive and exploratory and its nature is qualitative. The scenario is a hospital ward of a specialized hospital in Fortaleza – CE