Desafios biopsicossociais enfrentados por puérperas com HIV em relação ao diagnóstico e seus direitos sociais

Abstract

The vertical transmission (VT) nowadays, represents a large problem of public health, which makes it imperative the qualified preventive treatment for women and children that ensures the least as possible contagion from mother to child. Although treatment is guaranteed on health places, there are a lot of biopsychosocial factors that may difficult the access of the puerpera to the health services and, consequently, the effective realization of the treatment. Therefore, the study aimed to investigate what are the biopsychosocial challenges faced by puerperas with HIV and their reflexes on the development of child. It is a field survey of the qualitative type performed with seropositive puerperas, who performed prenatal care at a university hospital from the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) and still being accompainded together with their children in the outpatient clinic of infectious diseases of the said place. The participants consented their participate by means of Free and Informed Consent Term. The collection took place through a semi-structured questionnaire and a recorded interview and, posteriorly, transcribed in full and submitted to content analusis by Bardin (2009). After analysis emerged two categories: (1) Diagnosis of HIV in pregnancy; (2) The social rights of pregnant and puerperal women with HIV. Those difficults range from the lack of informations about rights and clinical condition even the confrontation of social prejudice in relation to the serological issue.