Itinerários terapéuticos de mulheres em tratamento de corrimento vaginal em Maputo

Abstract

This work analyses the itinerary of women who suffer from vaginal discharge, from its identification until the process of search for cure. The research that gave origin to this work starts from questioning the biomedical assumptions which are anchored to the material dimension for the efficacy of of the treatment and adopts an approach, which tends to consider that the therapeutic itinerary depends of an internal logic of functioning, context and social forces implicit in the actions of the users of health services. Therefore, the research focused on the experiences of women seeking treatment for vaginal discharge in a clinic located in Maputo City, exploring how these women became aware of their disease situation, how they arrived at the clinic and the treatment they underwent. For data collection I used observation, exploratory interviews, narratives of women who experienced discharge. The research revealed that one of the challenges in treatment is based on how responsibility for sexuality is perceived and experienced responsibility in sexuality between women and men.

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