Até que a morte nos separe : gestão do risco de contaminação do HIV nos casais serodiscordantes

Abstract

This work is the result of the study done around the reality of serodiscordantes couples in which we seek to understand the strategies of management risk of contamination of HIV knowing that between the spouses one is HIV positive and another is not. We argue that these couples make the management of this risk interpreting the principles to be learned from the association in which it is a part on the basis of the knowledge that they bring for themselves as the experiences accumulated over the past. We advocate this position using the theory of struturation of Giddens and his approach on the risk. The theory emphasizes that the social practices reflect the meet between the structural funds and the reflective capacity of the social agents which leads us to believe that they have the ability to decide rationanally and independently. We adopta methodologigy fully qualitative feature with the interview for the collection of data. The data interpreted reveal that married couples have a social perception preventive of the risk in contamination, in the way that they conceive this risk as a situation in which must accur to preventive measure. The knowledge about circunstances of the exposure risk leads couples to seek manage the sharp instruments, use condoms, reduce to practice sex and traditional as the strategies of management. We conclude that in everyday life of the interview the decision are takeover consensually, so that they learn in association and bring the esperience like that they can be rigorous in management or major exposition in risk, as the alternative of condom.