Representações das relações de genero e seu impacto na reinseração social da mulher seroposetiva: o caso das mulheres seropositivas da Província de Maputo

Abstract

In the present study, we proposed to analyze the problem of stigmatization and discrimination against women with the HIV/AIDS virus in Maputo province. We seek to analyze how social representations, specifically gender relations, influence HIV-positive women's responses to stigmatization and discrimination, analyzing their manifestations in the family and community context, as well as the factors that can contribute to their social reinsertion in the community. To do so, we start from the theoretical assumption according to which social representations, including representations of gender relations, result from the dialectical relationship between man and society, going through three moments namely: interiorization, exteriorization and objectification. Social representations are internalized and objectified in the consciousness of individuals, in turn the objectified reality is externalized in social interaction in the form of social norms and are objectified in reality through social institutions. It is based on these institutionalized social norms that society guides the its action scheme and makes social control. A question was raised from which one seeks to know how the stigmatization and discrimination of HIV-positive women inhibits their reintegration into the family and into. community. The three hypotheses raised by the work using documentary (literature review) and non-documentary (direct and indirect observation through semi-directive interviews) techniques used to carry out this study may provide information capable of validating or invalidating the hypotheses previously raised. The observation was carried out in rural areas and peripheral neighborhoods of the province of Maputo, namely: Magude*, Maxaquene “A” and “C”, Iníuíene, Liberdade, Polana Caniço, Mafalala, Manhiça and Boane and in the “Hospital Dia” dos centers ’ The Magude neighborhood is located on the outskirts of Maputo city, in the Mafafala neighborhood. This neighborhood arose from the resettlement of the population from the Magude district during the floods that devastated the country in 2001. from Alto-Maé and Polana Caniço, to a target group made up of HIV-positive women, their families and the community, for which we defined an intentional sampling, based on some identification criteria that define the profile of our target group.