Transcender o risco ocupacional, depender para se orevenir: um estudo sobre a prática de testagem de HIV com provedoras, na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This research project is ethnographic in nature and sought to understand the prevention and mitigation mechanisms that health providers have in relation to risks in the HIV testing process. The project made it possible to identify ways of apprehending and interpreting risks through the practices and discourses of health providers in the work sector. And it made it possible to describe the daily lives of health providers and identify the type of relationship that is established between them and patients in the workplace. With regard to theoretical assumptions, the research was based on the cultural and social perspective of risk by Luhmann (1993) and Giddens (1998), who argue that risk has an interpretation contextual, that is, each society has its own way of conceiving, understanding and interpreting risk. This research project used the ethnographic method as a methodological procedure, with a qualitative approach and had direct observation and semi-structured interviews as techniques. Research shows that in the context of health providers, there is an interdependent culture of prevention and mitigation. The same research, allowed to verify two categories of risk. The involuntary risk that occurs with the removal of the patient's finger in the HIV testing process. It is the voluntary risk that occurs in situations where providers test HIV patients without wearing masks, gloves and glasses. As for the type of relationship that is established between health providers and patients in the HIV testing process, this is a confrontation, which results from the imposition by providers on the patient in the HIV testing process and the resistance of patients when removing your finger in the act of testing. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)