Criança e o HIV e SIDA em Moçambique: um estudo do processo social da revelação do estudo de seropositividade

Abstract

This monograph aims to understand the parents' perceptions about HIV and AIDS and how these perceptions can influence them to reveal their children's HIV status and what means they use to reveal the disease. The main argument of the monograph is based on the hypothesis that the perception and the way in which parents face and face the disease are a fundamental determinant in the act of disclosing their children's serological status. The monograph is based on the internationalist theory of Herving Goffman (1988) in his approach to stigma seen as the qualifications of an individual at the expense of the other in the form of derogatory attributes, for having a body or behavioral mark that "differentiates" them and that society considers it abnormal. We used the qualitative method, which consisted essentially of collecting information through semi-structured interviews with the previously selected target group. The study concluded that knowledge of the forms of transmission and prevention of the disease, combined with the acceptance of the HIV positive status of the infected parents, the absence of self-stigma, the acceptance of the behavioral changes of the children in adolescence, allied to the beginning of the first courtship, would allow that parents reveal their children's HIV status. However, the valorization of childhood and adolescence (defined by the immaturity of the infected child), the father's fear of stigma on the part of others (community, school) towards his children, will condition the parents to adopt their children's protective behaviors not revealing your HIV status (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)