SENTIDOS E DESAFIOS DO “VIVER COM HIV” NAS PRÁTICAS DISCURSIVAS DE GAYS E MULHERES TRANS EM NATAL/RN (BRASIL)

Abstract

The article aimed to understand the meaning productions about HIV/AIDS in the discursive practices of gays and trans women living with HIV. This is a qualitative social constructionist research in dialogue with biographical hermeneutics through semi-structured biographical interviews. The narratives were analyzed in the form of categories and semantic interpretation of  the discursive practices revealing five thematic categories: Seropositivity, Social Support, Prejudice and Discrimination, Political Aspects, Treatment and SAE and Self-Construction. At the end of the work, it was possible to understand how each participant builds his health-disease process in seropositivity, starting from the deteriorated memory of AIDS and/or the imminence of death to the place of a politics of life through biopsychosocial aspects that influence seropositive experience and list questions for the construction of responses against stigmas and the strengthening of comprehensive health care.