O trabalho do assistente social no ambulatório de infectologia pediátrico HIV/AIDS: vivências do estágio curricular em serviço social

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to describe and characterize the work process of the Social Worker in the health sector within the hospital sector, with a view to problematizing this reality. For this purpose, the experience of curricular internship in Social Work carried out at the Pediatric Infectology Outpatient Clinic of the University Hospital of Santa Maria - RS, as well as research in books, theses, dissertations and articles related to the subject was used as a database. Health policy, which is part of the social security system, is being built on advances and setbacks. The adoption of an expanded concept of health, since the creation of the Unified Health System, has been contributing to the promotion and recovery of the health of children and adolescents in HIV / AIDS treatment. In this aspect, the work of the Social Worker is listed as paramount, since in its work process, in the construction of strategies and care directed to the implementation of adherence to the treatment of the families involved, guarantees access to social rights. It is concluded that the subjects in the treatment and their families, from the actions of the Social Assistants and the trainees, in this case, became aware of their social rights and of the importance of the continuity and accomplishment of the treatment. In addition, the importance of working together with the multiprofessional team, always proposed together in the consultations and in the fight for adherence to the treatment of HIV / AIDS patients, of the social vulnerabilities present brought by the expressions of the social question, besides the prejudice and stigmas highlighted by the users.