Provar capacidade reprodutiva e, só depois, usar contracepção: a lógica do uso de contracepção no Bairro Abel Jafar, Marracuene, Maputo

Abstract

The present study analyzes logic that guides the use of contraceptive methods among users of the “Abel Jafar” health center and residents of the same neighborhood. From the analyzed literature I identified two perspectives of which the first considers that the adoption or not of the methods contraceptives is determined by the information and knowledge that people have about and the second perspective considers that the adoption or not of contraceptive methods is conditioned by a combined multiplicity of factors. From the analyzed literature, I understood that the use of contraceptive methods is determined by information, knowledge and a multiplicity of factors. However, the two perspectives analyze only the so-called modern methods. However, it remains to be understood how the collective imagination influences the discarding of methods, either to prove the ability to conceive or to procreate. Given the limitations of the literature, I carried out an ethnographic research with users and residents of the hospital and Bairro Abel Jafar with experience of using different methods. From the research data, I understood that the initial sexual experiences of the research participants are devoid of the use of methods and begin to be considered only after an experience of pregnancy or procreation. This attitude of the participants derives from the fact that they are part of a context dominated by a collective imagination that values ​​people capable of becoming pregnant and procreating and stigmatizing those unable to conceive and procreate. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)