A gestão cotidiana e a dignidade humana de quem vive com HIV: um estudo à luz da teoria das representações sociais

Abstract

The value of human life is one of the few contemporary consensuses. Human dignity, through the philosophical character of the term can be considered a fragile and subjective concept, but the same is the background of several Magnes Letters, seeking to guarantee the existential minimum to the people. The social representations of AIDS that circulate in the social imaginary cause stigma to people living with HIV. Stigma is recognized as a barrier that prevents advances in actions and policies in pursuit of the guarantee of human dignity. This study is part of the Research Group on Health Care and Nursing, in its care of the adult and the elderly: daily as a space for representations of the Graduate Program in Nursing of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora ( UFJF). It addresses the moment of discovery of positive serology for HIV and daily life. Thus, the objective was to analyze the social representations of people living with HIV on the discovery and elements of human dignity that guide the daily management of being positive. It is a qualitative research, having the assumptions of analysis the Theory of Social Representations, in the procedural approach of Denise Jodelet. Approved by the Research Ethics Committee of UFJF, under CAAE 57724016.2.0000.5147. The scenario was a Specialized Attendance Service, participants were 12 people living with HIV for at least 6 months and a maximum of 3 years. Information collection took place from October 2016 to February 2017. Two collection techniques were used: the open interview and a projective technique. In order to organize the information we used the proposal of Content Analysis, proposed by Bardin, which were analyzed anchored in the assumptions of Theory of Social Representations. The results are presented in two categories: representations about the meaning of finding themselves seropositive, and the elements of dignity that guide the day-today management of people living with HIV. The representations reveal ambiguity, because at the same time that there is a representation of normality when living with the virus, the participants report a daily life marked by situations of violence: symbolic or not. The findings guide the importance of antiretroviral therapy, family support and work in the management process. In relation to violations of the components of human dignity, stigma seems to occupy the main place because, because of it, people living with HIV diminish their social relations, and the impacts of this isolation go from solitude to direct deprivation of material goods and symbolic.