Entre a cama e o ambulatório: a biomedicina e a vida sexual dos casais sorodiscordantes com HIV/Aids

Abstract

The effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy has improved the lives of people living with HIV / AIDS, and the presence of serodiscordant couples in outpatient clinics have been more frequent. The systematic use of condoms has been sufficiently demonstrated by several studies to be effective in preventing HIV, but how to make patients realize their importance? This study seeks to identify and reflect on the strategies used in medical prevention and care to patients with HIV and AIDS, engaged in serodiscordant marital relationships through the use of condoms. Six doctors (2 women and 4 men) who work with patients with HIV / AIDS at a public hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro, gave their testimonies through semi-structured interviews guided by a script. Among the findings, there is the production of an invisibility aimed at serodiscordant couples, since what is revealed as really important is adherence to treatment, which coincides with medication adherence antiretrovirals). Drug treatment focuses goals and relocations of health professionals in assisting patients with HIV / AIDS, focusing on biomedical tradition that reduces social, and emotional experiences cultural living with AIDS, the factors that facilitate or hinder adherence. The medical strategy serodiscordance is addressed to 'negative' in order to erase the double condition as well as other aspects not investigated the patient's life.