Sexualidade de mulheres vivendo com HIV/AIDS

Abstract

The diagnosis of HIV/AIDS in addition to resonate in affective and sexual life, interferes with many aspects of human life, including their sexuality. Thus, this study aims to understand the sexuality of women living with HIV/AIDS, assisted in Specialized customer service (SAE) of the municipality of Santo Antônio de Jesus-Bahia. This is a qualitative and descriptive study, conducted from a database, from which were used in the information pertaining to the subproject "coping strategies of the feminization of HIV/AIDS in Santo Antônio de Jesus, Bahia. The participants of the study consist of 12 women with a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS. The interviews examined were collected in the period from September to November 2014. The speeches were organized according to Bardin's content analysis and analyzed with the aid of bibliographic references on the subject. Subcategories found to suffer: "socioeconomic, demographic and epidemiological characteristics"; "complicity in relation to two: implications of sharing the diagnosis" and "use of condoms during sexual intercourse. We observe that women are mostly black and Brown women, young men, in reproductive age, single, with low educational level and economic conditions, which keeps heterosexual practices and reside in cities in the interior of Bahia, corroborating, with the current epidemiological profile of AIDS and demonstrating social vulnerability and individual situations. In relation to the discovery of the diagnosis and the sharing by some, it can be said that these women's sexuality has been reached. To some, especially to those that maintained relations with partner not a great skater, to sexuality was marked by several feelings such as sadness; revolt; blame for carelessness with health; scapegoating of the partner; fear of isolation, to be rejected, abandoned and tried to infect the partner. In addition, some women have experienced situations of prejudice, discrimination and stigma related to the disease, factors that interfered in affective and sexual life by decreasing libido and sexual abstinence. To other improvement in the relationship, because her partner began to show more care, attention and love. One of the ways of combating the disease was referred to the religiosity and the care of his own health. About condom use after diagnosis realizes that for some its use was restricted only to avoid contamination of the partner and an unwanted pregnancy, fear of vertical transmission. There were soroconcordantes couples to trivialization. We consider that the invisibility on the part of health professionals facing the sexuality of people with HIV/AIDS can bring implications on health condition and the quality of life, highlighting the importance of professionals highlight other aspects that pertain to the treatment of the infection and look for these people's health in macro.