Contar ou não contar? Do conhecimento do diagnóstico positivo do HIV/SIDA aos dilemas da revelação

Abstract

From the moment in which the individual learns and lives in seropositivity clash with two problems: to tell or not to tell? These issues in turn bring others who count and those who do not count. It is about this troubled world experienced by adolescents living with HIV/AIDS that this work focuses, in order to understand the determinants is the revelation of HIV status. To achieve the same, was privileged to qualitative methodology. Regarding the techniques, was used semi-structured interviews and life stories with teens, and only the first with the key informants. Note that the field data were collected at the health center of Ndlavela, has been selected a sample of 10 HIV-positive adolescents and 3 key informants. Regarding the theoretical framework, we used the dramaturgical perspective proposed by Goffman (1983) where the bedrock is to consider the actions of social actors in order to preserve their images. Due to the limitation of the same reading of our data, we had trust as auxiliary concept. Preliminary findings shows that the process of interaction with others, young HIV-positive, they tend to put indifferent to HIV. Pretending they do not have much knowledge about it, never have done or are still seronegative test. But as life HIV positive not only obeys the logic of pretense and concealment, but also through the development process, the study found that a key element to the revelation of HIV status is revealed confidence in the person, because it creates possibilities maintenance of secrecy. We also note that there are no privileged individuals or physical spaces for the revelation. The important thing is how we said trust and sharing between the developer and affectionateness revealed