O desafio da prevenção em HIV/AIDS: um estudo acerca das práticas de saúde desenvolvidas nos serviços de referência em Juiz de Fora/MG

Abstract

This article discusses the health practices designed to combat the epidemic with a view to prevention, health promotion and treatment adherence, with the background of experience in Juiz de Fora / MG, considered second city of Minas Gerais with the largest number of cases. It discusses the practices developed, especially with an educational, as, AIDS in Brazil and the world presents itself in an epidemic that requires health practices long-range, aiming not only the biological aspect of the disease - the HIV virus - but also incorporates the influence of social, cultural and economic life of the present in individuals who carry the virus or are subject to it. The study shows that to control AIDS, the Brazilian government provides health services and actions aimed at encompassing society as a whole. Thus, the study in question becomes relevant in that it reveals how they materialize health practices to combat the epidemic and what they contribute to containment of disease progression.