ResumenObjetivo: Reconocer los significados colectivos y subjetivos que un grupo de personas con VIH tiene respecto a vivir con la enfermedad.Método: Cualitativo explicativo con diseño narrativo. Los datos fueron recolectados a través de tres grupos de discusión conformados por 16 personas con VIH, hombres y mujeres entre los 22 y los 49 años de edad, que viven en la ciudad de Cali.Resultados: Los significados de los participantes giran en torno al vivir el VIH, en relación con el estigma sentido, el estigma real, el estigma percibido y el autoestigma. La experiencia del estigma se relaciona directamente con la percepción que los participantes tienen de sí mismos y la construcción de su autoimagen y autoconcepto se transforma dependiendo de la forma en que se asume la enfermedad; finalmente, las estrategias de afrontamiento que se utilizan se basan en el cuidado de la imagen, en evitar el malestar emocional y sentirse apoyados por alguna persona cercana a ellos.Conclusiones: Los hallazgos de la presente investigación permiten evidenciar que el VIH es producto de diversas situaciones en cadena, en donde las representaciones sociales construidas alrededor de la enfermedad constituyen un factor central en el afrontamiento y en la forma de vivirlo colectivamente, realizar una intervención desde temáticas como la memoria colectiva, la identidad colectiva y la reconstrucción de la identidad podría permitir resignificar y potencializar la imagen que las personas con VIH tienen de sí mismas y del grupo social al que pertenecen. Palabras Claves:Estigma sentido, VIH, Autoimagen, Identidad colectiva Abstract Objective: This paper aims to recognize what a group of people with HIV have regarding living with this disease and based on collective and subjective meanings. Method:The data collected corresponds to three discussion groups of 16 people with HIV, men and women from Cali, between 22 and 49 years sampled, through a Qualitative explanatory and following a narrative design Results: As a result, everything related to collective meanings of the participants revolve around living with this disease (HIV), as follows: Felt stigma, real stigma, perceived stigma and self-stigma; in addition, the experience of stigma is directly related to the participants perception of themselves and the construction of their self-image and self-concept, transformed depending on how do these individuals assume the disease; finally, coping strategies used are based on caring for the image, avoiding emotional distress and feeling supported by someone close to them. Conclusion:This research findings make possible to show that HIV is the result of various situations associated, where social representations built around the disease are a central factor in coping with and how to live with it collectively. Themes such as collective memory, collective identity and the reconstruction of identity could make possible to reframe and enhance the image that people with HIV have of themselves and the social group to which they belong to as well.
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