Dinâmicas de mutações identitárias e das representações sociais num contexto de pessoas vivendo com o HIV e SIDA – Caso do Bairro Chali, Katembe

Abstract

This research report reflects a range of social phenomena that were and can be experienced in the Ka Tembe Municipal District, specifically in the Chali neighborhood, where we find a group of peasant women living with HIV and AIDS who yesterday found themselves marginalized, hostages to labels , stigmatized and discriminated against due to the lack of knowledge about HIV and AIDS and its manifestations on the part of the individuals that surrounded them members of the community and mainly by the family. This group of women who saw themselves excluded from the bosom of the social relationships of the people who thought they had first support sought help in other places, so they arrived at the local hospital and the Mozambique Red Cross at Ka Tembe where they managed to become activists in the area of ​​HIV and AIDS and predisposed to make a difference by working the land producing and helping people living with HIV and AIDS who also lacked support from their families and money capital to buy food supplements to cope with medication without expecting any remuneration from those food is the first important thing for success in controlling HIV and AIDS. These actions have allowed them to benefit from more support either from the Government (for the 7 million allocated to Districts), either by non-governmental organizations, national private institutions, private individuals and other supporters. After years, large-scale production began with techniques and instruments learned in the banks of the school of life with their parents who learned from their grandparents, and so on, these ladies found themselves despite the stages of advances and setbacks for years, to transform from peasant women to agro-livestock. The changes that have occurred over the years have caused the labels that were once made of stigmatization and discrimination to be passed over and forgotten as if they had never existed, today we can visualize the death of HIV and AIDS at the expense of new people who are taken as normal as any other seronegative individual. This viruses and disease came to be seen as any other disease, thus breaking down fear, stigma, labeling, discrimination and the main thing, ignorance in relation to HIV and AIDS and its manifestations in the body of individuals.