Percepção de risco como estratégia de convívio comensal com jovens órfãos pelo HIV/AIDS em São Paulo, SP, Brasil

Abstract

Within the HIV/AIDS context, commensal strategies are agreed upon by the families aiming to reduce risks. With the objective of identifying risk perceptions in the commensal meetings, we developed a study with youth orphaned by AIDS. Interviews produced data through questions regarding daily life. The Wright Mills' proposal about intellectual craftsmanship was used for analysis. In this approachsubjects are considered historical and social actors. The strategies used from risk perception of HIV/AIDS were assumed as agreements by the families to ensure social interaction. It was observed that strategies include restrictions for touching and body contact; separation of dishes and disposal of food touched by the HIVpositive. The risk perception found may be due to variability of scientific findings and beliefs, thus reinforcing the process of stigma and discrimination.

Representaciones sociales del vivir con el VIH/SIDA y vivencias de prejuicios en Brasil

“…As regards experiences of prejudice/discrimination, this study also showed that the family is responsible for a large portion of them, in the form of separating household utensils, rooms, and food. Such false beliefs about HIV infection coexist socially with medical knowledge, which is widely disseminated through media campaigns (Hamann, Pizzinato, Weber, & Rocha, 2017;Moreira, França, Jacob, Cabral, & Martirani, 2018). The presence of such mode of representation, founded from an anthropological (Laplantine, 1986) and cognitive prototypical (Bishop, 2000) perspective, has already been analyzed in detail (Apostolidis & Dany, 2012).…”