Envelhecendo com HIV/Aids: história de lutas e desafios

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Danielle Abrantes de
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5130
• topic: Envelhecimento; Aids; Enfermagem; Get old; Aids; Nursing; CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

The aging process refers the individual to many different confrontations that associated with HIV contagion, takes wider dimensions and awakens a different look for this population group, by believing that living the challenges in the struggle for life with AIDS, results in rich experiences, in that the human support superimposes the daily confrontation. In this direction, the present research had as objectives: know the history of people getting older with HIV/AIDS, members of a Non-Governmental Organization and identify the feelings and the facing strategies that permeate the relationships experienced by people who are getting older with HIV / AIDS. This is a study with qualitative approach, being Thematic Oral History as a methodological support. The research was conducted during the period from July to September 2012, through interviews with eight collaborators of the National Network of People Living and Living Together with HIV and AIDS (RNP+CG), located in Campina Grande. The analysis of the empirical material allowed the construction of two main themes: 1 - Getting old with HIV/AIDS and 2 - Feelings and the facing strategies in the relationship experienced by getting old with HIV/AIDS. In the first main theme, aging is considered with positive and negative aspects, while appointed as a natural consequence of human evolution at the same time it is configured as a synonym of disease, lack of beauty and invalidity. The second main theme depicts the feelings and the facing strategies, since the search for diagnosis to the discovery of seropositivity. Confrontations are related to financial difficulties, reactions caused by the presence of antiretroviral and opportunistic diseases associated with feelings of fear to reveal the diagnosis to partners, family and friends as a result of suffering from prejudice and discrimination, causing social isolation. In this aspect, the Non-Governmental Organizations play an essential role in combating AIDS, by assisting the patients to deal with the imposed challenges, promoting the increase of self-esteem and willpower to continue living. The study bought together different experiences of people getting older with HIV/AIDS and the Oral History allowed unveil certain facets of confrontations that each collaborator has experienced in the complexity and diversity that characterized the epidemic. In this direction, this investigation offers possibilities to health care professionals and other social segments to understand the various confrontations experienced by people getting older with HIV / AIDS and awaken to mobilizations to build, expand and strengthen the fight against the disease, especially for those who experience this dual context with wide and complex features that the disease imposes.