O vivenciar da gestação em mulheres jovens convivendo com o HIV: uma contribuição para a prática assistencial em saúde

Abstract

Abstract from the Dissertation to the Graduate Program in Nursing at the Juiz de Fora Federal University as part of the requirements for obtaining the title of Master in Nursing. The purpose of this investigation was to being young pregnant women living with HIV. The objective was to reveal the aspects coming from this condition during pregnancy of young women living with HIV. It was elected the phenomenology, based on philosophical theoretical reference by Martin Heidegger as a research method. The study was developed in the Specialized Assistance Service- Serviço de Assistência Especializada- in a city in Zona da Mata Mineira with six young pregnant women with HIV. It was used the phenomenological interview, using the technique of open interview and a questionnaire. The vague understanding enabled to prepare the progressive movement to understanding the lives of pregnant women being HIV positive and the interpretation of the meaning of being a young woman living with HIV.The experience of being HIV positive pregnancy begins with the memory of the pregnancy news to be a defining moment for some women, not acceptance but sometimes desired and even planned; They live with the possibility of transmitting the virus to their children, which causes fear and insecurity, but they know that the correct use of medication and their faith and belief in God strengthen the hope that child will born healthy and even healed. The interpretive understanding unveiled the sense of being present in the world in its existentiality, showing their movement in daily life, experiences and diverse feelings of being in the world with others, taking over from protagonist role of their lives, showing up the double factuality: being young and pregnant women carrying the HIV virus. It shows that sometimes did not want to be pregnant but well accept this current situation experiencing alternating feelings. In the movement their existance, they experience their past and they know no other way go, so they go ahead, relating to their partners, family, school and community, taking the impersonal identity, it shows how all pregnant and they do not reveal they have the virus. Living with-others, the fear of being rejected for being HIV positive, maintaining the anonymity of their HIV status. Design your future, that it was open to the possibilities of life like any other young woman did not have HIV positive, but with peculiarities that having HIV brings. Once having knowledge about the disease and knowig the benefits of treatment, do not feel sick, despite reporting the unpleasant effects of antiretrovirals.