Análise das percepções dos crentes muçulmanos e sua influência na prevenção do HIV/SIDA: caso das Mesquitas Muhamad, Juma e Chadulia da Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This monograph seeks to analyze Muslim believers' perceptions of social roles, illness, health and lifestyle in relation to HIV/AIDS. On the one hand, we focused on the way in which the social roles of men and women are constructed and the perception that both have of the other. On the other hand, we analyze the perceptions about HIV/AIDS, about the existence of the disease, means of prevention and lifestyle in face of HIV/AIDS. In an era in which, despite prevention campaigns, the rates of sexual infection continue to grow, it occurs to us to analyze the factors that act as an obstacle in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. In this case, we analyze the religious factor and ask ourselves: To what extent the practices of Muslim believers are or are not being influenced by the different perceptions they find in their socializations about social roles, illness, health and lifestyle in relation to HIV /AIDS, We understand in this work that the perceptions that individuals have about the social roles of men and women and about the disease can influence their degree of exposure to this disease. Based on a gender perspective, the main objective of this work is, however, to analyze the strategies that believers, especially Muslim believers use in the prevention of HIV/AIDS, taking into account these different perceptions about social roles, health and lifestyle in regarding this disease. Although the perceptions of men are equally important to us and although we have also analyzed them, we highlight the perceptions and experiences of women because we are interested in understanding the mechanisms that affect female HIV/AIDS.