Em busca de recursos terapêuticos para tratamento do Sarcoma de Kaposi, (Xifula) na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the therapeutic itineraries of individuals who suffer Kaposi's Sarcoma and understand the logics that structure them in the City of Maputo and for the advance of this study, we try to have an anthropological look, searching for authors, such as Artur Kleinman, who privileges his model of health care system and thinking interpretive artist by Clifford Geertz. Interpretative thinking starts from the point of view of people to understand and interpret the process of construction of meaning of experiences in their practices socio-cultural. The work was elaborated favoring a qualitative and exploratory approach, with the collection of data inspired by the ethnographic method. The raw data resulted from semi-structured interviews structured and life stories, fourteen individuals were interviewed throughout the research, from twenty-two to forty-seven years of age. The data collected allowed us to understand that individuals choose to follow several treatments simultaneously and do it in an indiscriminate way in an attempt to find a effective treatment. Medicines are administered in a disorderly manner and in this way, individuals are at risk of becoming intoxicated and for more severe cases the risk of losing their intoxicated life. The study can contribute to the extent that it allows us to understand the risk that individuals run in an attempt to resolve their health and illness afflictions, thus seeking various therapeutic resources and administering simultaneously. But also, the study can open up new perspectives so that other researchers can deepen the questions raised during the research, and the search for therapeutic resources is not linear. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)