Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Third Age

• Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, Suzana Carielo da
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Thomazini, Alessandra, Gavioli, Alexandre Rosafa, Martos, Fabiana J. Mariza, Alves, Ilvana Severo, Barroso, Juliana Rocha, Amaral, Roberto Galassi, Goulart, Silvana Aparecida Baroni
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Kairós (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/kairos/article/view/17559
• topic: Terceira Idade; AIDS; Sexualidade; Gestão social da velhice; Envelhecimento Populacional; Velhice; Third Age; AIDS; Sexuality; Social Management for the elderly; Population aging; Elderly

This paper is specifically targeted at bringing up a reflection involving the articulation between the elderly and sexuality. Such theme has been motivated as from the verification, based on epidemiological data, that Brazil currently is facing an increasing number of new cases of AIDS among the over 60 age group. If, on the one hand, said data serves to cast off beliefs (stigmatized ones) toward the idea that "the elderly do not have sexual intercourses", on the other hand, it shows the need to question the reasons for such state of things. Therefore, attention has been paid to approaching "sexuality", "Third age" and “HIV/AIDS” as concepts and then explore how their association allows reading the reality mentioned above. At the end, there is a discussion about how, in Brazil, the State and nongovernmental organizations have been facing the elderly health problem so as to see, more specifically, the social protection system available to face AIDS in this segment of population.